Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
Albert Einstein
The more laws, the more offenders.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.
Neil Gaiman
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
My father said When in doubt, castle.
Kurt Vonnegut
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
Soft words are hard arguments.
If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.
Christopher Hitchens
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Uzmi osmeh idaruj ga onome ko ga nikad nije imao.Uzmi zrak sunca iu?ini da odleti tamo gde vlada no?.Otkrij izvor iokupaj onoga ko živi u blatu.Uzmi suzu ipoloži je na lice onoga ko nikad nije plakao.Uzmi hrabrost istavi je u dušu onoga ko se ne sme boriti.Otkrij život ipripovedaj o njemu onome ko ga ne može shvatiti.Uzmi nadu iživi u njenoj svetlosti.Uzmi dobrotu idaruj je onome ko ne zna darivati.Otkrij ljubav ipokaži je ?itavom svetu.
Mahatma Gandhi
Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Abraham Lincoln
We have all forgot more than we remember.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.
Plato
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often what you're meeting is a very mediocre person. But nonetheless, you can get a sort of frisson of wickedness from them. And the best combination of those, I think, I describe him in the book, is/was General Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina, who I met in the late 1970s when the death squad war was at its height, and his fellow citizens were disappearing off the street all the time. And he was, in some ways, extremely banal. I describe him as looking like a human toothbrush. He was a sort of starch, lean officer with a silly mustache, and a very stupid look to him, but a very fanatical glint as well. And, if I'd tell you why he's now under house arrest in Argentina, you might get a sense of the horror I felt as I was asking him questions about all this. He's in prison in Argentina for selling the children of the rape victims among the private prisoners, who he kept in a personal jail. And I don't know if I've ever met anyone who's done anything as sort of condensedly horrible as that.
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