I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.
Acquaintance lessens fame.
Claudius
Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.
Allen E. Claxton
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
Les Claypool
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
William C. Clegg
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Colette
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.... When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Wri
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges
Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.
Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.
Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
Thomas Jefferson
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's Republic, I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
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