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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose.

Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.

Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pt, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think.

Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery.

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

You can pretend to be serious you can't pretend to be witty.

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

The argument is at an end.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.