A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

English Proverb

What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

Samuel Johnson

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Marcel Proust

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Lewis Carroll

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Florence Nightingale

Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.

Walter Lippmann

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

Rene Descartes

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure.

The Talmud

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

Tom Brady

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Arthur Murphy