It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best friend will be there.

Blame is safer than praise.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.

Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing, Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch, In early spring.

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.

'T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3.

Al-Ki

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.