Famous Quotes Name J

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered

Et tu, Brute. You also, Brutus.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered]

Et tu, Brute. [You also, Brutus.]

Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast)

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Be gentle with the young.