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- An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't…
- Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
- I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
- Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with…
- As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions…
- To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame…
- Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
- Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
- isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
- I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
- I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
- There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have…
- This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass…
- To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and…
- There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men…
- Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very…
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle