Wisdom Quotes — page 478

refers to many examples of changes now constantly going on, and insists emphatically on the great results which they must produce in the lapse of ages.

If a man would get hold of the public era, he must pay, marry, or fight.

[A]lthough the " Cohesive System," including... timbrel arches, was frequently practised by the ancients, after... the height of its splendor in the Middle Ages it gradually disappeared... as modern civilization and the Renaissance …

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

the space occupied by even the comparatively small number visible to the naked eye, must be vast beyond all powers of conception.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.

There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the …

284. A Man knows his Companion in a long Journey and a little Inn.

Ill ware is never cheape.

Bacchus, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.

In the account given to Solon by the Egyptian priests, of the submersion of the island of Atlantis under the waters of the ocean, after repeated shocks of an earthquake, we find that the event happened when Jupiter had seen the moral …

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long alive but whose appearance we know through their portraits.

The "Timbrel Arch"... is as ancient as the " Cohesive System," and may be as old as its opposite.., the "Gravity System."

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

If we suppose that similar intervals exist between all the stars

Pryde will have a fall; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

283. A Man in Passion rides a Horse that runs away with him.

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

Advice, n. The smallest current coin.