I love to smile, even through pain.
All colors will agree in the dark.
Francis Bacon
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can come up with a rational argument for their inclusion in a well-governed community, we'd be delighted -- short of compromising the truth as we see it, which wouldn't be right -- to bring them back from exile: after all, we know from our own experience all about their spell. I mean haven't ever fallen under the spell of poetry, Glaucon, especially when the spectacle is provided by Homer?
Plato
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Americans. They came right out with things. Hitchens family lore related the tale of how once, when I was but a toddler, my parents were passing with me through an airport and ran into some Yanks. 'Real cute kid,' said these big and brash people without troubling to make a formal introduction. They insisted on photographing me and, before breaking off to resume their American lives, pressed into my dimpled fist a signed dollar bill in token of my cuteness. This story was often told (I expect that Yvonne and the Commander had been to an airport together perhaps three times in their lives) and always with a note of condescension. That was Americans for you: wanting to be friendly all right, but so loud, and inclined to flash the cash.
Christopher Hitchens
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
Aldous Huxley
I would live to study, and not study to live.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...
Terry Pratchett
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Panic, fear, worry, doubt, negativity ... words not recognized by Cosmic Ordering.
Stephen Richards
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane Austen
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Paulo Coelho
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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