There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. |
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. |
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. |
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. |
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. |
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. |
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. |
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. |
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. |
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. |
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. |
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. |
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. |
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. Topics: Courage |
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. |
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. |
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. |
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. |
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. |
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. |