He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.
Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather.
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. -Baba Dioum.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it.
The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one.
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.