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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be b...  
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happ...  
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a gen...  
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.   Nature
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion...  
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but ...  
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.  
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commo...  
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is t...  
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of ...  
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are gr...  
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of ev...  
All truth is not to be told at all times.  
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one...  
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to kn...  
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people,...  
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to thos...  
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for its...  
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prep...  
Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more...  
Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.  
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or ar...  
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grow...  
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself ...  
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.  
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure -tangible material pros...  
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.  
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.  
Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to ab...  
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.   History
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.  
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good...  
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.  
He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.  
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning...  
I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any o...  
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.  
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently ...  
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.  
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be lear...  
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we...  
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that ar...  
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.  
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.  
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The w...  
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinki...  
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which...  
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance on...  
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete ...  
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrume...   Experience
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.  
Life is one long process of getting tired.  
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient pr...  
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.  
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.  
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the...  
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the vict...  
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.  
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this be...  
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to...  
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with usel...  
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.  
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in ...  
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.  
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.  
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.  
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.  
People are always good company when they are doing what they really en...  
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian relig...  
Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not bee...  
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.  
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear les...  
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay ...  
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called...  
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the long...  
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing ...  
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.  
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.  
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself wi...  
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals...  
The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.  
The history of art is the history of revivals.  
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the b...  
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.  
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is t...  
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk...  
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private pa...  
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by...  
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would n...  
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other parti...  
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.  
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.  
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire ab...  
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweet...  
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing w...  
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.  
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, ...   Death
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy in...  
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.  
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and t...  
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, n...  
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will ofte...  
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decen...  
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like ...  
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.