The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Americans. They came right out with things. Hitchens family lore related the tale of how once, when I was but a toddler, my parents were passing with me through an airport and ran into some Yanks. 'Real cute kid,' said these big and brash people without troubling to make a formal introduction. They insisted on photographing me and, before breaking off to resume their American lives, pressed into my dimpled fist a signed dollar bill in token of my cuteness. This story was often told (I expect that Yvonne and the Commander had been to an airport together perhaps three times in their lives) and always with a note of condescension. That was Americans for you: wanting to be friendly all right, but so loud, and inclined to flash the cash.
Christopher Hitchens
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
Aldous Huxley
I would live to study, and not study to live.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...
Terry Pratchett
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Panic, fear, worry, doubt, negativity ... words not recognized by Cosmic Ordering.
Stephen Richards
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane Austen
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Paulo Coelho
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
You're not gay, are you?If I were, I would dress better.
Cassandra Clare
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
When you break rules, break 'em good and hard
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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