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Fun is a sugar-coated physic. - [Fun] Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. - [Fuss] Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. - [Habit] Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton. - [Happiness] I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. - [Sorrow] If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. - [Perfection] If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved. - [Deceit] If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong. - [Stubbornness] If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn. - [Politics] Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. - [Ignorance] Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition. - [Ill-nature] Incredulity is the wisdom of a fool. - [Incredulity] It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. - [Superiority] It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree. - [Virtue] It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. - [Wickedness] It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better. - [Virtue] It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all. - [Habit] It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. - [Doctors] Jealousy is one of love's parasites. - [Jealousy] Knowledge is like money,--the more a man gets, the more he craves. - [Knowledge] Laziness is a good deal like money,--the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want. - [Laziness] Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity. - [Liberty] Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. - [Appreciation] Men who have much to say use the fewest words. - [Words] Method is the arithmetic of success. - [Method] Displaying page 2 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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