Post #2480

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2479

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2478

Mammon is the largest slaveholder in the world.
—Frederic Saunders

Post #2477

There is a chord in every human heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
—Ouida

Post #2476

Remember the divine saying. He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life.
—Sir Walter Raleigh

Post #2475

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2574

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom 'opinion' than he should fear meeting a ghost if he cross the churchyard at dark.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Post #2473

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
—Jean de La Bruyère

Post #2472

What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in of that it leads to a performing manhood.
—Christian Nestell Bovee

Post #2471

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
—Adam Clarke

Post #2470

Patience—in patience there is safety.
—Édouard René de Laboulaye

Post #2469

I resemble the poplar,—that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
—Joseph Joubert

Post #2468

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
—Henry Fielding

Post #2467

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter ; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Post #2466

In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain.
—James Russell Lowell

Post #2465

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
—H. W. Shaw

Post #2464

You can't order remembrance out of a man's mind ; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Post #2463

Though I look old, yet I am strong and

       lusty;

For in my youth I never did apply

Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;

Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo

The means of weakness and debility:

Therefore my age is as a lusty winter.

Frosty, but kindly.

—William Shakespeare

Post #2462

As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual, and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, "I trample upon the pride of Plato."Plato mildly answered, "But with greater pride, Diogenes!"
—Erasmus

Post #2461

False in one thing, false in everything.
—Legal Maxim

Post #2460

Men are seldom underrated ; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it docs in the glass of a thermometer.
—H. W. Shaw