“Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary …
“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.” – Jane Austen
“In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people” – Andre Maurois
“Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that …
“Of no worldly good can the joy be perfect, unless it is shared by a friend” – Latin Proverb
“When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. — they’ll find something.” – Doug Horton
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them” – Emily Bronte
“He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it” – Turkish Proverb
“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.” – Spanish Proverb
“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” – Ronald Reagan
“If it wasn’t him, they must have been twins.” – Robert Brown
“For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.” – Indian Proverb
“Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it” – Spanish Proverb
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the …
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” …
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means” – Georges Bernanos
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.” – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Revenge is a confession of pain” – Latin Proverb
“People must help one another; it is nature’s law.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Don’t find fault with what you don’t understand” – French Proverb
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.” – Epictetus
“In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the …
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being …
“Without humility there can be no humanity” – John Buchan
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction” – Antoine …
“Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past” – Chinese Proverbs
“There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.” – Lord Chesterfield
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” – John Buchan
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” – Bible
“He who knows nothing, doubts nothing” – Spanish Proverb
“Smile, it’s free therapy.” – Doug Horton
“I’m trying to die correctly, but it’s very difficult, you know.” – Lawrence Durrell
“No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God …
“A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.” – Turkish Proverb
