Quote #2692
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because...
Quote #1421
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly...
Quote #34546
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able...
Quote #15942
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
Quote #7392
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
Quote #19962
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed,...
Quote #27654
The last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given...
Quote #3705
…exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul...
Quote #13759
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I...
Quote #21997
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.