Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. |
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. |
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow. |
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. |
The test of civilization is its estimate of women. |
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. |
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper! |
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. |
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. |
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. |
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. Topics: Anger |
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. |
While we read history we make history. |
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. |
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. |
It is not observed in history that families improve with time. |
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. |
Happiness lies first of all in health. |