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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.
Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.
When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?
Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.
I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.
The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.
Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.