Quotes 141 till 160 of 242.
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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
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Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Rigondeaux was Cuba's answer to Bobby Fischer who transformed into a kind of Lee Harvey Oswald traitorous creature in that society. He escaped on a smuggler's boat and toppled one of the best fighters in the world in 2013 with his obliteration of Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall. He made it look so easy, his career has never recovered.
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Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
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Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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