Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
- Proverb
- Proverb
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
- Angelou, Maya
- Angelou, Maya
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
- Meir, Golda
- Meir, Golda
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.
- Josef von Sternberg
- Josef von Sternberg
What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
- Howe, John
- Howe, John
If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
- Picasso, Pablo
- Picasso, Pablo
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say,'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.'I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
- Solomon Short
- Solomon Short
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
- Porteous, Bishop
- Porteous, Bishop
BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
- Ambrose Bierce
- Ambrose Bierce
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
- Bible
- Bible
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
- Rostand, Jean
- Rostand, Jean
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
- Campbell
- Campbell
There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- Mignon McLaughlin
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Hemingway, Ernest
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
- Bible
- Bible
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
- Heywood Broun
- Heywood Broun

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