Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb Colton
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting MightThat fashioned forth its lovelinessHad other aims than my delight.
Thomas Hardy
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley, Life of Gladstone,
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
The essence of morality is the subjugation of nature in obedience to social needs.
There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.
Allan Bloom
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Dudley Bradstreet
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher Morley, John Mistlet
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Honore de Balzac
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Charles Barkley
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
Julian Barnes
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James Barrie
Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
.. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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