Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 1730.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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We can learn much from wise words, and less from wise guys.
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
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We do not say that a man to be a critic must necessarily be a poet: but to be a good critic, he ought not to be a bad poet.
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
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We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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We know what we are now, but not what we may become.
Hamlet 4, 5 -
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
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We live by hope; and by desire: we see by the glad light; and breathe the sweet air of futurity; and so we live, or else we have no live.
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