The linguistic specialist ... is scared of the semantic element in his subject. Phonemes and morphemes cause him no difficulty, but once you start studying meaning you're into culture
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
If you deal carelessly with bees you will injure them,and will yourself be injured. And so with men. It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
Look after the molehills and the mountains will take care of themselves.
Life is too confusing for novices. We should let the experts take care of it.
I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation cares about its own identity.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.