Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.
In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.
Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.
Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.
Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
When war is raging the laws are dumb.
As charms are nonsense,nonsense is a charm.
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.
If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.
The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.
The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.
I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?
Reckless haste makes poor speed.
There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Man must suffer to be wise.
I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
Mankind are very odd creatures:one half censure what they practice,the other half practice what they censure;the rest always say and do as they ought.
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
These are great days.
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
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