Quotes 201 till 220 of 245.
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
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Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
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Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
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The excessive desire of pleasing goes along almost always with the apprehension of not being liked.
Source: Introductio ad Prudentiam II (1740) 178
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