Aphorisms

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Aphorisms

  • Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. - Edgar Watson Howe
  • I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. - Pablo Picasso
  • It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. - Joseph Conrad
  • He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. - Horace
  • The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. - Moliere
  • Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress. - Thomas A. Edison
  • Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
  • Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. - William Shakespeare
  • Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
  • Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. - Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Enemies` promises were made to be broken. - Aesop
  • To tell the truth, rightly understood is not to state the true facts, but to convey a true impression. - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The human race has improved everything, but the human race. - Adlai E. Stevenson
  • It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
  • From error to error one discovers the entire truth. - Sigmund Freud
  • If you can once engage people`s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. - Philip Chesterfield
  • The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. - Kin Hubbard
  • What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? - Bertolt Brecht
  • The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice. - William Somerset Maugham
  • Easy writings curse is hard reading. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. - Stendhal
  • How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? - Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Habit is stronger than reason. - George Santayana
  • The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. - George Orwell
  • A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. - Thomas Carlyle
  • Every woman knows all about everything. - Rudyard Kipling
  • Everything comes to us from others. To be is to belong to someone. - Jean Paul Sartre
  • Who will watch the watchmen? - Decimus Junius Juvenal
  • It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Business is a combination of war and sport. - Andre Maurois

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