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GERMANY KENT To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.
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CHUCK NEVITT To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD It would be either a very skilled or very unwise man to steal from an assassin.” - Taliesin
SABRINA ZBASNIK Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I don't want to have an interim [athletic director]. I want to be able to move from Jim to the new p...
GERALD TURNER Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone t...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless yo...
JOE PATERNO The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time, ... The ...
HAMID KARZAI Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of...
ALBERTO GONZALES It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.
RASHEED OGUNLARU Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS The person who desires to be rich alone is unwise,for he can go broke tomorrow,but the one who desir...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called;
And let the man who calleth be the caller;
And in...
HENRY CAREY Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.
DANA CARVEY I am driven to move quickly because I think there could be a lot of interest in Jim Leyland.
DAVE DOMBROWSKI She has to be one of the favorites to win the Olympic trials,'' said Vanderbilt women's coach Jim S...
MARY DECKER SLANEY She has to be one of the favorites to win the Olympic trials,'' said Vanderbilt women's coach Jim S...
MARY DECKER SLANEY We don't want an investigating committee against the Federal Intelligence Service, but a debate abou...
MAX STADLER Coach (Jim) Calhoun sees me as a wing, so that's basically where he recruited me. It just depends on...
BEN EAVES Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of ...
BIBLE not-so-subtle reminder that there was creativity before silicon chips. Creativity doesn't live in ma...
THE COMMITTEE should grow in proportion to increases in corporate profitability.
THE COMMITTEE interior ministry services of resorting to torture and ransoming prisoners.
THE COMMITTEE the President and directing the Secretary of State to transmit to the House of Representatives not l...
THE COMMITTEE Something happened that changed the priority assigned to the job search. On the morning of December ...
THE COMMITTEE Bribery.
THE COMMITTEE take leadership in sending out positive messages about asylum-seekers.
THE COMMITTEE [The commission operates on the belief that some closures are inevitable.] The marketplace is drivin...
THE COMMITTEE NDU, the premier center for joint professional military education, is under the direction of the Cha...
THE COMMITTEE We are products of the NDDC Act and we intend to work for peace and development in the Niger Delta. ...
THE COMMITTEE automatic scholarships to Niger Delta indigenes so as to give them higher levels of competence to en...
THE COMMITTEE president's allies will send our complaint to the graveyard at the latest on Wednesday unless we are...
THE COMMITTEE This is truly a glorious day for West Hartford. Jim will help us go from being a great municipality ...
JOE VERRENGIA What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.
T.A. MILES It was a big win on Tuesday, and then we had to come over here and play another big game against Gre...
CHARLA PARRISH A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I really like Andy Kennedy. He's a great guy, but he's going to have the tag of 'interim coach,' whi...
BOB GIBBONS We ask the central committee to resign immediately and announce an emergency committee for the movem...
ABU MOHAMMED I still talk to Coach Jim Leavitt all the time, ... He's a piece of work. Gunther and him are real s...
KAWIKA MITCHELL Texas has always had committee chairs -- strong and powerful committee chairs -- and to go to a posi...
GARY KEITH Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA Lord Denethor is Boromir's father. To bring him news of his beloved son's death would be most unwise...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my ...
DOUG FLUTIE (Assistant coach) Dan Nye has been here nine or 10 years and Watterson has not beaten us during that...
AARON SCHREIN I want to try and go into this committee with an open mind,
MICHAEL LARSON It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.
DASHANNE STOKES To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN I questioned his timing. I accused him of retaliation for voting against Jim Kelly.
LARRY URDAHL Typically, if a coach is under contract and it's a lateral move, then the permission is denied. But ...
JEFF FISHER We are excited to have Jim back as our head coach. He has done a tremendous job for us in his two ye...
KY SNYDER Kingdom and Vanguard - that's great for us, man. Jim Haley's a legend. To play him and get a win aga...
DANNY SMITH Ask God to use you. Ask Him to show you how you can be a blessing everywhere you go. Keep honoring H...
GERMANY KENT Jack and Jackie gave Jim a great value base. He saw how Jack did it and how Jackie supported it. Jim...
TOM CREAN Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse de...
O ANNA NIEMUS To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supp...
GEORGE WASHINGTON This is a very good move by the mayor and one that, as chair of the committee, I will certainly be s...
ERIC GARCETTI The Lord Himself chants, and the Lord Himself inspires others to chant.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Jim and I have formed a great relationship. When the time is right for Jim to move on, then we'll ha...
GERALD TURNER It's senseless for [the university] or others to replicate efforts and repeat what others have alrea...
DR. CHARLES RICE An unwise moment of pleasure can turn into a lifetime of pain.
LORRIN L. LEE But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, t...
BIBLE How did you act when all was not good? Did you rise to the challenge? Did you display grit, resilien...
BILL COURTNEY That's pretty typical of Jim, putting others before himself.
ED LONEY Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD My roomate at 'Harvey' is this guy Morgan Spector, an actor in town, and I've taught him...
RICH SOMMER How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put t...
BIBLE We have to move on. Let's set up a committee and let's see if we can get that game back on for Thank...
BETTY HUF (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON No. 1 was the coaching staff. I had a great relationship with (associate head coach) Fred Hill and I...
COURTNEY NELSON I'm not comfortable with making an honorary name for Jim Kelly on Mason Road. I think Charles Mason ...
GARRY THOMAS As soon as a few of Huntington's larger car dealerships started moving out to Route 60 in Barboursvi...
CAL KENT He has an administrative degree, never used it. He had an opportunity to go to Waukee and utilize hi...
CHARLES ZANDERS How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put t...
BIBLE We're attempting to help people move through the pilgrimage from being victims to being victors for ...
ALFRED HUGHES Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the migh...
BIBLE Coach [Jim] Calhoun is a big-time coach, and he develops players, ... I need to work on everything t...
CHARLIE VILLANUEVA We call upon the state party to retract that poll and to apologize to the leadership of the Republic...
BOB PADUCHIK This has been an extremely difficult day for Jim.
JEFFREY STEINBACK This has been an extremely difficult day for Jim.
JEFF STEINBACK This committee this morning is an example of how ineffectual a committee can be -- with less than 50...
DON BLAIR The sons of God are not supposed to go into battle against their problems, they should always go eve...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer
JAZZ FEYLYNN It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against ...
PAULO COELHO
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We don't wait until there's a rash of injuries. We hit it before it becomes a bigger issue.
JIM LORD Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, an...
LORD SHAFTESBURY It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
LORD SAMUEL A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
LORD MELBOURNE My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in...
LORD MELBOURNE Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
LORD MELBOURNE The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte...
LORD SHAFTESBURY How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with ...
LORD ROSEBERY If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
LORD MELBOURNE It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
LORD SHAFTESBURY I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
LORD NELSON A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,...
SHIRLEY LORD It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
LORD MELBOURNE Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre...
LORD MELBOURNE Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. ...
LORD HANSON Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
LORD CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
LORD BURLEIGH Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There i...
LORD GREVILLE No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
LORD KAMES Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
LORD SAMUEL Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
LORD CHESTERFIELD There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
LORD PERCIVAL Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
LORD MELBOURNE Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
LORD ESSEX Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
LORD MANSFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
LORD MELBOURNE True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
LORD BARNETT Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe...
LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea...
LORD BURLEIGH Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart...
LORD GREVILLE A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
LORD NELSON I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
LORD NELSON Business is more exciting than any game.
LORD BEAVERBROOK The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is th...
LORD TRENT A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
LORD MILVERTON Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does...
LORD MORAN A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.
LORD ALTRINCHAM Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e...
LORD ACTON Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
LORD ACTON A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD