Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

[Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man: he loves to see him work.

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.