The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Farrar
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. Hazlitt, William
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. Connolly, Cyril
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. Hoffer, Eric
The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain. Unknown
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you. von Sternberg
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title – expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. Amory, Cleveland
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. Lippmann, Walter
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear. La Rochefoucauld, François
The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of […]
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding. (Philippians, 4:7) Bible
