Quote #688
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Quote #20176
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so...
Quote #4732
I only know two pieces one is ‘Clair de Lune’ and the other one...
Quote #17122
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than...
Quote #9397
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
Quote #1180
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Quote #19556
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no...
Quote #18517
Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true,...
Quote #701
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Quote #8608
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false,...