ThursdayNov 21, 2024
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
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