Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
Sigmund Freud
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
Deepak Chopra
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
It’s very hard to design something that you almost do not see because it just seems so obvious, natural and inevitable.
Jonathon Ive
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Nothing is too much trouble when one loves, and there is always time.
Abdu'l-Baha
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Rodney Dangerfield
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Gore Vidal
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Mystery is not profoundness.
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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