Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life is so unlike theory.
It's dogged as does it.
Beware of creating tedium!
Never mingle love and business.
Short accounts make long friends.
I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
Easy reading requires hard writing.
I think I owe my life to cork soles.
What is there that money will not do?
There's nothing like going on with a thing.
The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
There is such a difference between life and theory.
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
