I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
Charles Franklin Kettering
For we have thought the longer thoughtsAnd gone the shorter way.And we have danced to devil's tunesShivering home to pray;I take you now and for always,For always is always now.
Philip Larkin, Is it for now or
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
H. L. Mencken
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Milton Berle
This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
Italian Proverb
The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.
He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
At a round table there is no dispute about place.
Bed is the poor man's opera.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Remembrance of things past.
William Shakespeare
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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