Quote #2653
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Quote #31699
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and...
Quote #26320
Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I...
Quote #30510
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Quote #3406
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions,...
Quote #7949
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done...
Quote #24616
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free...
Quote #26101
Just when you think there’s nothing to write about, Nixon says, ‘I am not...
Quote #6162
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Quote #22788
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.