A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.
Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast some small furry creatures to pieces. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk.
If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatow will have to come back countless times as a lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.
There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.
He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.
The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.