Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

For who is pleased with himself.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

It is better to live rich, than to die rich.