Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
Mark Twain
He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle -- yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.
The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
We must use time creatively.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Rodney Dangerfield
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson
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