Quotes 401 till 420 of 1714.
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For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249 -
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
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General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3 -
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
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