Wars are caused by undefended wealth. MacArthur, Douglas
Wasn’t marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn’t it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears […]
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. Gracian, Baltasar
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. Plutarch
We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world. Twain, Mark
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Livius, Titus
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. Webster, Daniel
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. De Vauvenargues, Luc
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them. Rieff, Philip
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Johnson, Samuel
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. Maugham, W. Somerset
