Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Hail fellow, well met.
A lie is an excuse guarded
Bread is the staff of life.
An excuse is a lie guarded.
Every dog must have his day.
Without bread all is misery.
Many a truth is told in jest.
Come, agree, the law's costly.
Big-endians and small-endians.
Karate is for life, not points.
Vision is seeing the invisible.
Tell truth, and shame the devil.
He who writes badly thinks badly
Books, the children of the brain.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
A carpenter is known by his chips.
Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
T is as cheap sitting as standing.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Perverseness is your whole defence.
Observation is an old man's memory.
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
Please your eye and plague your heart.
May you live all the days of your life.
My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
Praise is the daughter of present power.
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
