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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

To know is not less than to feel.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.