Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's a great day for TWA.
Tact is good taste in action.
Best fishing in troubled waters.
It is easier to win love than to keep it.
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.
Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.
Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.