Quote #10473
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and...
Quote #6262
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in...
Quote #8848
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is...
Quote #25679
Don’t set your wit against a child.
Quote #12697
The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their...
Quote #4351
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Quote #20697
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Quote #34838
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Quote #6849
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly...
Quote #20248
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.