Wisdom Quotes — page 472

The value which the workmen add to the materials, therefore, resolves itself in this case into two parts, of which the one pays their wages, the other the profits of the employer upon the whole stock of materials and wages which he …

'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.

There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile; There's the land, or cherry-isle,

Taste, of which the proverb says there should be no dispute, is precisely the subject which needs discussion.

"What is meant by saying that my choice of which way to walk home after the lecture is ambiguous and matter of chance?...It means that both Divinity Avenue and Oxford Street are called but only one, and that one either one, shall be chosen.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If ever deed of honour did thee please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms.

The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.

The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.

507. All Cats are alike grey in the Night.

Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer.

Confidant, Confidante, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme, My barmie noddle's working prime.

Pallas, in more recent times, has drawn the same inference.

Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.

[I]n the Renaissance, the most remarkable are... in the Santa Maria del Fiore, and the Medici Chapel and Baptistry of Florence; St. Augustine's and St. Peter's in the Vatican, Rome; the Madonna de la Salute, Venice; Ste. Genevieve, Paris; …

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

We cannot doubt after what we know of the power of heat that the nebulous form of matter was attended by the condition of a very high temperature.

Once in a generation, a Wallace may be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified to wander unscathed through the tropical wilds of America and of Asia; to form magnificent collections as he wanders; and withal to think out …

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.