Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

LIBRA (Sep. 23 to Oct. 22) Your desire for justice and truth will be overshadowed by your desire for filthy lucre and a decent meal. Be gracious and polite. Someone is watching you, so stop staring like that.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.

When desire dies, fear is born.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Begin with another's to end with your own.