The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

David Herbert Lawrence

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

Logan P. Smith

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

Henry David Thoreau

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Francoise Sagan

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

E. B. White