 It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. |
| No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. Topics: Children |
| He preaches well that lives well. |
| He had a face like a blessing. |
| Jests that give pains are no jests. |
| Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. |
| Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. |
| Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. |
| No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. |
| I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. |
| From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. |
| Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. |
| A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. |
| Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. |
| Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. |
| Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. |
| There's no taking trout with dry breeches. |
| Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. |
| He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. Topics: Courage |
| There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. |
