Quotes to inspire and reflect

...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Bigamy is having one wife too many.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States."

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Health is not valued till sickness comes "Dr.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." "Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774" #0050 "Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. "Dr.

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." "Charles W.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Hitch your wagon to a star. "Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""American Civilization"", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862" #0022 Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend. More than cool reason ever comprehends.

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.