Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
From Horace Walpole
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
5 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives