Quotes 41 till 60 of 90.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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