Wisdom Quotes — page 477

Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Ill weede growth fast.

For I am the size of what I see not my height's size.

300. A Man may say too much even upon the best of Subjects.

Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?

Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

His lockèd, lettered, braw brass collar Showed him the gentleman an' scholar.

observed that the quantity of mud brought down by rivers into the Euxine was so great, that its bed must be gradually raised

I should not advise anyone with ordinary independence of mind to attempt the public ear unless he is confident that he can out-lung and out-last his own generation; for if he has any force, people will and ought to be on their guard …

[T]he general use of vaults of brick, stone or the timbrel, as well as the use of the arch itself, and its origin, is very ancient. They were applied before the days of the Rome, who did nothing but improve, making their use general...

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

It was first surmised by the ancient philosopher, Democritus, that the faintly white zone which spans the sky under the name of the Milky Way, might be only a dense collection of stars too remote to be distinguished. This conjecture has …

I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of …

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

The still sowe eats up all the draffe.

Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day [...] an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.

294. A Man may lead his Horse to Water, but cannot make him drink.

When a dog is a-drowning every one offers him drink.

Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.