Wisdom Quotes — page 476

Hee that goes barefoot must not plant thornes.

Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

Perhaps it may turn out a sang: Perhaps turn out a sermon.

Strabo rejects this theory as insufficient to account for all the phenomena, and he proposes one of his own, the profoundness of which modern geologists are only beginning to appreciate.

We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one.

The Assyrians attached great importance to the of their bricks, possibly to give them conditions of cohesive strength...

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Seeing in our astral system many thousands of worlds in all stages of formation

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

He who praises everybody praises nobody.

I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

The wise and virtuous man

It is a deere collop That is cut out of th' owne flesh.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

310. A Man surprized is half beaten.

He that is warme thinkes all so.

Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

An' there began a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.

level had by this means become so much elevated that it burst its barrier near Byzantium, and formed a communication with the Propontis

We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death which we have not — and in the nature of things never can?

The ns improved the manufacture of brick. ...[W]ith abundance of clay, as well as asphalts and mineral oils... as fuel, they came to the practical idea of burning the clay, and instead of using raw brick... For such purposes ovens were …

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

The evidence of the existence of other astral systems besides our own is much more decided than might be expected when we consider that the nearest of them must needs be placed at a mighty interval beyond our own.