The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Miguel de Unamuno
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis
The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
Bertolt Brecht
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Right is its own defense.
The dead govern the living.
Auguste Comte
Use it or lose it.
Jimmy Connors
The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.
Source Unknown
Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.
Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
Henry David Thoreau
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Francis Bacon
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey
All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.
There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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