Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
Henry David Thoreau
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Horace
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
Mark Twain
May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.
Abraham Lincoln
Whatever advice you give, be short.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
Paul Theroux
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
Friedrich Nietzsche
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
Thomas Jefferson
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
John Cheever
I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.
Jodi Picoult
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.
Paulina Porizkova
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
Robert Byrne
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
Albert Brooks
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Zane Grey
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
Kurt Vonnegut
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
Lily Tomlin
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
In a way, the world?view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
George Orwell
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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