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Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
We have seen better days.
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
The sands are number'd that make up my life.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
Who will bell the cat
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.
A functioning police state needs no police.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.
"Careful with fire" is good advice we know.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
I wasted time, now time doth waste me.
Small to greater matters must give way.
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
Of excellent dumb discourse.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
My library
Was dukedom large enough.
Was dukedom large enough.
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.
This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute.
and therefore am I bold and resolute.
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.
When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
A hit, a very palpable hit.
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
This above all to thine own self be true.
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
This is the short and the long of it.
War is hell, and I mean to make it so.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.
Frailty, thy name is woman
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
I have Immortal longings in me.
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
We have some salt of our youth in us.
Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
But not the words.
The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
Frailty, thy name is woman!
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
The rest is silence.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Genius is talent provided with ideals.
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
A dinner lubricates business.
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
To this great stage of fools.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.
There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
I dote on his very absence.
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
I shall not look upon his like again.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
Come not within the measure of my wrath.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Make instruments to plague us.
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.
The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not.
Most joyful the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.
It is through him that all men see.
"If you were my husband, i would feed you poison."
"If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!
"If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!
I would fain die a dry death.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--and I will be heard.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
90 of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.
The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence So sweet is zealous contemplation.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
I am wealthy in my friends.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
In false quarrels there is no true valor.
I am not merry but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.
That which is not just is not law.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.
I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
'Tis neither here nor there.
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
We burn daylight.
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Grief not, rather find,
Strength in what remains behind,
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of Human suffering,
In the faith that looks through death
In years that bring philophic mind.
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Grief not, rather find,
Strength in what remains behind,
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of Human suffering,
In the faith that looks through death
In years that bring philophic mind.
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
What is originality Undetected plagiarism.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
If rough be love with you, be rough with love.
Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
Her infinite variety.
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I wish you all the joy you can wish.
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read.
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin-- I will die in the last ditch.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
To the end of reckoning.
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
What is now proved was only once imagined.
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
Common sense often makes good law.
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.
There are no athiests in foxholes.
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
It's too much to ask one to love his enemy. Let's compromise on forgetting him.
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
Vox populi, vox humbug.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
What's done can't be undone.
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
The more we do, the more we can do.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Jesters do often prove prophets.
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
Manners maketh man.
Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.
Necessity has no law.
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.
My salad days, When I was green in judgment.
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
It matters if you just don't give up.
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Every failure is a step to success...
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a weary world.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
I have not slept one wink.
The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us.
Confounds us.
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Et tu, Brute!
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
We don't need more assault rifles on our streets right now.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.
An intellectual hate is the worst.
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
Energy is eternal delight.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique.
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?
There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
To assume a pleasing shape.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
There are two kinds of adventurers those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
Justice delayed, is justice denied.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
Nothing will come of nothing.
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
A plague o' both your houses
My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
He that dies pays all debts.
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they?ve got a second. Give your dreams all you?ve got and you?ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Although the last, not least.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.
I Pray you know me when we meet again.
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done.
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard...
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Paranoia means having all the facts.
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.
Courage mounteth with occasion.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
The course of true love was never easy.
Action is eloquence.
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
Life's two Great Questions Why me and What do I do now
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.
This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with.
The Gods will diet me with.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
He is not great who is not greatly good.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Out, damned spot out, I say
God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
O why was I born with a different face?
Why was I not born like rest of my race?
Why was I not born like rest of my race?
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
The uncertain glory of an April day!
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
The game is up.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
I have
Immortal longings in me.
Immortal longings in me.
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
Hit hard, hit fast, hit often.
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.
O, I am slain!
Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
Beware the ides of March.
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.
When I was green in judgment.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
Those who can command themselves command others.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
Lord, what fools these mortals be
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
What a deformed thief this fashion is.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Niether a borrower nor a lender be.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.
I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool.
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
In summer, the song sings itself.
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
Et tu, Brute
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.
Such as it is.
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
It's an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can't read the damned diploma.
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
I must be cruel, only to be kind Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.
You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows.
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done.
Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
True is it that we have seen better days.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.
For daws to peck at.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
It takes a village to raise an idiot.
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
How poor are they who have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
Fools rush in and get the best seats.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care.
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst.
Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
He has no hope who never had a fear.
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Who will bell the cat?
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men.
So are they all, all honourable men.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
Living together is an art.
Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their Proverbs.
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their Proverbs.
Cursed be he that moves my bones.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...
Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
Fill all thy bones with aches.
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty.