In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
- Sir George Savile
- Sir George Savile
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
- Huxley, Aldous
- Huxley, Aldous
Without self-sacrifice there can be no blessedness either in earth or in heaven. He that loveth his life will lose it. He that hateth his life in this paltry, selfish, luxurious world shall keep it to life eternal.
- All Saints' Day Sermons. 1870.
- All Saints' Day Sermons. 1870.
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
- C. A. Bartol
- C. A. Bartol
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
- Hare, David
- Hare, David
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilde, Oscar
If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?
- Mandeville, Bernard
- Mandeville, Bernard
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
- Bradley, Francis H.
- Bradley, Francis H.
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
- Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort
- Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
- Barry, Dave
- Barry, Dave
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Dalai Lama
- Dalai Lama
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Tallulah Bankhead
All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
- Pascal, Blaise
- Pascal, Blaise
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You never become a howling success by just howling.
- Harrington, Bob
- Harrington, Bob
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Durrell, Lawrence
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