Anger is short madness
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
Those that are little, little things suit.
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.
Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…
God’s first creature, which was light.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
