Category: writer
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
Albert Camus
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
Fran Lebowitz
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
Aeschylus
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Ambrose Bierce