Wisdom Quotes — page 475

'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.

Man disobeys, and deity disowns me.

And this reft house is that the which he built, Lamented Jack!

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

350. A Pin a Day is a Groat a Year.

He that lives well is learned enough.

Capital, n. The seat of misgovernment.

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, Och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

that volcanoes are safety valves, and that the subterranean convulsions are probably most violent when first the volcanic energy shifts itself to a new quarter, is not modern.

Intellectual over-indulgence is the most gratuitous and disgraceful form which excess can take, nor is there any the consequences of which are more disastrous.

[T]he Oriental civilization had great influence in... antique Byzantium

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

it is unavoidable to conclude that all the perfect have gone through the various stages which we see in the rudimental.

M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.

Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and …

Round numbers are always false.

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Damned below Judas; more abhorred than he was.

Beggars should be no choosers.

Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.

342. A Penny sav'd is Two-pence got.