All would live long, but none would be old.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Great talkers are little doers.
While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
I didn’t fail ten thousand times.I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues
A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded,but is commanded because it is beneficial.
I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
When you are in debt, then you are a slave.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.
Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.
On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.
God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
Constant dropping wears away stones
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
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