Quotes 181 till 200 of 317.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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