Wisdom Quotes — page 474

The funniest things are the forbidden.

that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest

We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

Oh! I could thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pockets.

The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.

A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day!

Small griefs find tongues: full casks are ever found To give (if any, yet) but little sound. Deep waters noiseless are; and this we know, That chiding streams betray small depth below.

Each one fashions and bears his world with him, and that unless he himself become wise, strong and loving, no change in his circumstances can make him rich or free or happy.

To robbe Peter and pay Poule.

Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.

407. A small Leak will sink a great Ship.

All truths are not to be told.

Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

important changes had taken place

In the highest consciousness there is still unconsciousness, in the lowest unconsciousness there is still consciousness. If there is no consciousness there is no thing, or nothing. To understand perfectly would be to cease to understand at …

under the influence of the beginning of this civilization the construction of St. Sophia, the grandest and most finished model of the cohesive cupola, was carried out.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

we must presume the whole to have been originally in one connected mass, the astral systems being only the first division into parts, and solar systems the second.

The man-like Apes... have certain characters of structure and of distribution in common.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker