Quotes 241 till 260 of 393.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
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Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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St. Louis is a good example of a vibrant city. Having stayed in a hotel in 2011 overlooking Cardinals stadium when they won the World Series, their fans definitely show up loud and proud.
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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