Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

It is the beginning of the end.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.]

A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

In excessive altercation, truth is lost.

A cock has great influence on this own dunghill.

The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

If you can walk, you can run.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

We may with advantage forget what we know.