Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 1789.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
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A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
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Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
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My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.
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