If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We cannot begin with complete doubt. We must begin with all the prejudices which we actually have when we enter upon the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
