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Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
Idling has always been my strong point.
Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.
The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.
Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.
We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
