Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. —William Cobbett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. —John Viscount Morley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. —Norman Maclean More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing endures but personal qualities. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. —Sir Richard Steele More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. —Lucy Maud Montgomery More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. —Confucius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man/ As modest stillness and humility;/ But when the blast of war blows in our ears,/ Then imitate the action of the tiger:/ Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life. —Ali Vincent More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day... —Donald Barthelme More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email