Category: writer
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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens
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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
Eckhart Tolle
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck