Great Quotations
Ability
Life has been
compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that
the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most
likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been
less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Argument
There is no
arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you
down with the butt end of it.
Business
Honor sinks
where commerce long prevails.
Competition
Surely the
best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait
till they plunder our very homes.
Critics and Criticism
Write how you
want, the critic shall show the world you could have written
better.
Dress
A modest woman,
dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of
the whole creation.
Excellence
To aim at
excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured;
to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
Fools and Foolishness
No one but a
fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of
it.
Happiness
If frugality
were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out
to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be
fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more
happiness.
Laughter
The best way
to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Life and Living
Life at the
greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored
and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care
is over.
Manners
A traveler of
taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world,
but the fool only at home.
Modesty
Modesty seldom
resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Passion
It seemed to
me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in
them.
Pleasure
Our pleasures
are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of
protraction our greatest pleasure.
Retirement
We had no
revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures
were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the
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