That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
, Thank You for Smoking, 2006
Related
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Thank You for Smoking.
AARON ECKHART Thank You for Smoking
IVAN REITMAN Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo...
ELLEN WRIGHT Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn...
BOB GREEN Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
RICHARD WHATELY Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument
RICHARD WHATELY I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who eve...
OSCAR WILDE if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY Shatter the smoking mirror of lies about you. There you’ll find the beauty of Gods mirror reflecti...
SUSIE L HILL If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.
LONI ANDERSON Thank you for being here, my beauty. Mon ange. My Kate. Your utterly, Vincent.
AMY PLUM However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...
JASON LAUMARK Argument is between two sides or individuals, never say silly to your friend because he/she never ar...
WILSON M. MUKAMA IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I...
SAM ELLIOTT The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.
CHRISTINE BERG God I have come to you in prayer, not because I'm in need, but because you have been always there fo...
ERIKA F. CASADO I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on t...
BILLY BOB THORNTON I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the f...
BILLY THORNTON I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the f...
BILLY BOB THORNTON Thank you, thank you, thank you for the deafening roar.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS if you argue for your limitations they are yours
RICHARD BACH Thank you for today, and if I should make it to tomorrow, thank you so much for that too; I’m bles...
SCOTTIE SOMERS I have never not enjoyed playing. I want to go on. If you are into this stuff for the money, you are...
BUDDY CAGE If I want to sit in smoking, I should have the right to sit in smoking. And if you want to sit in no...
CINDY MURPHY I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fu...
ANGELINA JOLIE We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ...
HECTOR GARCIA If you identify a population at risk for death, it's much easier to get them to change their behavio...
HARMON EYRE I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I wa...
RODNEY ATKINS I'd agree with you, except that agreeing with you probably means I'm on the wrong side of the argume...
LISA KLEYPAS Lord, thank You for the joys of the Christmas season. Thank You for treasured recollections. Thank Y...
GUIDEPOSTS Thank you Earth for I've never known a better friend
KEHINDE SONOLA It's never too late to say, THANK YOU!
LORRIN L. LEE The truth lies in your knowledge and right or wrong is a mere argument of what you know and what you...
PRATIK SHARDA Never say i m bored because its not your life thats boring its all you that make it boring!
SUPERNA BATHEJA I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for ...
GEORGE CARLIN I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedic...
MAGGIE GRACE This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not b...
ANGELINA JOLIE You spoke with passion for the civil rights
of all Americans regardless of if theyre gay o...
JOE SOLMONESE Non-smoking area: If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
UNKNOWN Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for th...
GARRISON KEILLOR If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ...
JOSEPH FARRELL To say thank you is a short way to express gratitude for all things .If you say thank you it is alwa...
GARY F EVANS... Dear God, thank you for yesterday, thank you for Today, thank you tomorrow and forever more..
OLASOT Thank God for your heartbreaks, for he made you realise that you were never made for one another.
OLASOT Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam
STEPHANIE SKEEM aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr...
RAJA Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He di...
DALE CARNEGIE You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.
CHRISTIAN DIOR “If you need God or the bible to know right from wrong, what would become of you if they never rea...
MYLYN YAMPAN Dear LOL, thank you for being there for me all those times I never had something else to say.
ANONYMOUS You are a strong person and I am thankful for each individual that impacted you in a negative way. T...
LATOYA J. STEPHENS If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up ...
JACK RAMSAY Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!
JAMES DASHNER Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true my...
PETER KREEFT If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN If you miss a tackle correctly -- and I know that sounds funny -- you can get some help from your fr...
GENE CHIZIK I thank you for your voices: thank you:Your most sweet voices.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't go...
YVONNE PIERRE On the facts thus far, the president has a decent argument that he acted lawfully. There's also a de...
CASS SUNSTEIN Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.
J.I. PACKER Thank you to the crows that amass on Vancouver evenings and fly home to the darkness of Burnaby Moun...
HIROMI GOTO I’m going to my room,” Jessie Kay called. “Y’all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I ca...
GENA SHOWALTER Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt
DARYNDA JONES Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.
VANESSA LACHEY You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness f...
ANTON CHEKHOV Thank you for the day and night,
for rainy spells and summer’s light.
Thank you for the ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
IMELDA MARCOS Even if you have nothing today, thank God for it
SUNDAY ADELAJA I would argue...that if you use a discount broker you could do as well as a fund of funds.
DARIUS MCDERMOTT My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.
BOB KERREY Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw th...
RICHARD MATHESON Reluctantly she lifted her eyes to his, and he went on: "I want you to understand this as though I w...
R.J. ANDERSON I thank you for your voices, thank you!
Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices,
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thank you for all. I love you so much.
DORCUS INZIKURU I may be right if I say you were wrong. But you will be wrong if you say I was right
WOHI PURANA I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong rea...
RICK WARREN Don't be shy to say "I am sorry"; Never feel too big to say "Please forgive me"; Don't think it's un...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You're wrong if you kill for the thrill of the hunt.
MIKE BURKETT I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we hav...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
More , Thank You for Smoking, 2006
Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU Secret Number One: Dump the Fucking Assholes. Dump 'em! There are people in your life who make you f...
CLINTON KELLY, I HATE EVERYONE, EXCEPT YOU I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my ...
BAT FOR LASHES There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all ...
BAT FOR LASHES I love dressing up.
BAT FOR LASHES I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated b...
BAT FOR LASHES I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing ver...
BAT FOR LASHES The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you d...
BAT FOR LASHES I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bo...
BAT FOR LASHES The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'...
BAT FOR LASHES 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it...
BAT FOR LASHES It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a...
BAT FOR LASHES I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don...
BAT FOR LASHES I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And...
BAT FOR LASHES I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way....
BAT FOR LASHES There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love P...
BAT FOR LASHES An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that...
BAT FOR LASHES To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delv...
BAT FOR LASHES I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very u...
BAT FOR LASHES I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ev...
BAT FOR LASHES I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would ac...
BAT FOR LASHES In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
BAT FOR LASHES I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes f...
BAT FOR LASHES I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people ...
BAT FOR LASHES We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic sou...
BAT FOR LASHES I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I w...
BAT FOR LASHES I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-g...
BAT FOR LASHES When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a...
BAT FOR LASHES I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, '...
BAT FOR LASHES I quite like androgyny.
BAT FOR LASHES All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a s...
BAT FOR LASHES ... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters...
UNIX FOR DUMMIES In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediat...
BAT FOR LASHES My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in th...
BAT FOR LASHES When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet ground...
BAT FOR LASHES The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't oth...
BAT FOR LASHES When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is whe...
BAT FOR LASHES Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality...
BAT FOR LASHES Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like ...
BAT FOR LASHES When people run in circles it's a very very... mad world.
TEARS FOR FEARS When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I hav...
BAT FOR LASHES Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and ...
BAT FOR LASHES I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get rea...
BAT FOR LASHES There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things t...
BAT FOR LASHES I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really li...
BAT FOR LASHES I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolut...
BAT FOR LASHES Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry ...
BAT FOR LASHES The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with con...
BAT FOR LASHES I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. ...
BAT FOR LASHES When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt lik...
BAT FOR LASHES I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting,...
BAT FOR LASHES David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brillia...
BAT FOR LASHES When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challeng...
BAT FOR LASHES I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element...
BAT FOR LASHES I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts...
BAT FOR LASHES I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I ...
BAT FOR LASHES When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in ...
BAT FOR LASHES I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a...
BAT FOR LASHES I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have ...
BAT FOR LASHES History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I ...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over ...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore di...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a si...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes with...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o...
I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de...
I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie...
I CHING Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ...
ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t...
I CHING In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ...
FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.
ELIZABETH I 'Twas God the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it,
And what the word did make i...
ELIZABETH I If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen...
ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
ELIZABETH I There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
ELIZABETH I If we still advise we shall never do.
ELIZABETH I Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
ELIZABETH I Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
ELIZABETH I The word must is not to be used to princes.
ELIZABETH I The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I God forgive you, but I never can.
ELIZABETH I I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ...
ELIZABETH I The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
ELIZABETH I I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
ELIZABETH I I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe...
ELIZABETH I To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th...
ELIZABETH I I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
ELIZABETH I All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
EYDEN I. As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ...
ELIZABETH I I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
STANISLAUS I Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such s...
ELIZABETH I Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ...
ELIZABETH I (Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)
"[W]hile we perceive ... th...
ELIZABETH I [F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un...
ELIZABETH I [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having...
ELIZABETH I To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.
STANISLAS I Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...