Society and the World

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball I don’t like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

A WOMAN HAS TO LIVE HER LIFE, OR LIVE TO REPENT NOT HAVING LIVED IT.

There is always a right way and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

If someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' it's the money.

Good actions get good results in time.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Remember, we learn nothing by speaking.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

 

Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.