Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

The public seldom forgive twice.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.