Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain.
A bark leaves no marks if you don’t let the dog bite.
Being in love is like feeling the sun from both sides.
The resolute grappling of a man with his own life is one of the most searching tests of character, for most people are willing to grapple with anything else under heaven, from international problems to spiritualism, rather than to face squarely their individual responsibility for their own lives.
Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
One-half of the world laughs at the other half.
No dish pleases all palates alike.
Vanity has no greater foe than vanity.
Promising and performing are two things.
He is past preaching who does not care to do well.
Better be envied than pitied.
Life is half spent before one knows what life is.
A hundred years of idleness are not worth one hour well employed.
A true gentleman will respect woman even in her weakness.
The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them.
Women will believe any lie that is wrapped in praise.
Do not find fault with what you do not understand.
Courtesy that is all on one side cannot last long.
Do not rely on the label of the bag.
Some think they are done when they are only beginning.
No one will get a bargain he does not ask for.
Friends are lost by calling too often and by not calling often enough.
If you want to totally avoid being deceived, get married on February 30th.
One dog’s piss will not pollute the ocean.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
I have so much to do, that I am going to bed.
You cannot be very smart if you have never done anything foolish.
A rich man has more relatives than he knows about.
A good meal should begin with hunger.
Vive la difference.
There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.
Comparison is not proof.
Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.
Late is worth more than never
Paris was not made in a day.
To want to forget something is to remember it.
When you rely too much on reason, you end up not relying enough on feeling.
There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
The meaning is best known to the speaker.
The common property donkey is the worst saddled.
Remember that everyone you ever meet is sure to fear something, to love something, and to have lost something.
Do not talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.
Don’t count on others to hand your life to you.
No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn’t going to like it.
Some people are not capable of giving you what you’re trying to get from them.
Don’t fight forces; use them.
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
… [Children are] so original, so independent. They’re everything you wish adults were. But adults are consistently herd-minded, conformant, subject to group pressure. They’re moving in the wrong direction. They’re moving away from the individual toward the herd.
Life is a risk.