The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Confidence awakens confidence.
Friedrich Von Sachsen
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
Jonathan Sacks
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Margaret Sackville
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita SackvilleWest
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
Anwar Sadat
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.
AlainRene Le Sage
There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.
The Siri Singh Sahib
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
Leslie Jeanne Sahler
Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is America. This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation.
Edward Said
Literature is the immortality of speech.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
David A. Schmaltz
Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
Max Schmelling
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