The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Well begun is half done.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Evil draws men together.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

One swallow does not make a summer.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

With regard to excellence it is not enough to know but we must try to have and use it.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Law is mind without reason.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

To perceive is to suffer.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice.

Hope is a waking dream.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Even when laws have been written down they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.

Happiness is the highest good being a realization and perfect practice of virtue which some can attain while others have little or none of it.

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field however fertile without cultivation.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face its index the eyes.

A life of peace purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

It is a great thing to know our vices.

It is a true saying that One falsehood leads easily to another.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

I will go further and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

While there’s life there’s hope.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

A friend is as it were a second self.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law the last prerogative.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what we know not where.

How can finite grasp infinity.

Look around the habitable world how few Know their own good or knowing it pursue.

Men are but children of a larger growth Our appetites as apt to change as theirs And full as craving too and full as vain.

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.

You see through love and that deludes your sight As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

They think to little who talk to much.

We must beat the iron while it is hot but we may polish it at leisure.

Set all things in their own peculiar place and know that order is the greatest grace.

But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much.

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The conscience of a people is their power.

There is a time for many words and there is also a time for sleep.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband’s murder.

The gods likening themselves to all kinds of strangers go in various disguises from city to city observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse and a few are better than their fathers.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods for they say that evils come from us but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

The single best augury is to fight for one’s country.

Once harm has been done even a fool understands it.

There is a fullness of all things even of sleep and love.

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

How God ever brings like to like.

Because I could not stop for Death .He kindly stopped for me .The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- ‘Tis starving makes it fat.

There’s a certain Slant of light Winter Afternoons.That oppresses like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

My friends are my estate.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than ever before.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Haste in every business brings failures.

The king’s might is greater than human and his arm is very long.

Not snow no nor rain nor heat nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

In soft regions are born soft men.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.

Advance and never halt for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path for they draw only corrupt blood.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth follow only beauty and obey only love.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy after life.

Say not ‘I have found the truth’ but rather ‘I have found a truth.’

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked through understanding.

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked through understanding.

If indeed you must be candid be candid beautifully.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.

Man merely discovers’ he never can and never will invent.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

We fear death yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death for it is but another mystery of life.

To be closer to God be closer to people.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder with a dash of the dictionary.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore envy my toils my honesty and the methods by which I gained it.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast another ready on the tongue.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth.

Stranger in a strange country.

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

The end excuses any evil.

The ideal condition Would be I admit that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Death is not the worst thing rather when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Money There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Of all human ills greatest is fortune’s wayward tyranny.

Numberless are the world’s wonders but none More wonderful than man.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead not even though you hate him.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

No man loves life like him that’s growing old.

Much speech is one thing well-timed speech is another.

Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.

What you cannot enforce do not command.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

When I tell the truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those that do.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.

And because I am happy and dance and sing They think they have done me no injury.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

Love seeketh not itself to please Nor for itself hath any care But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven in Hell’s dispite.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Where Mercy Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

He not only overflowed with learning he stood in the slop.

Whatever you are by nature keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Many could forgo heavy meals a full wardrobe a fine house et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

On Western civilization I think it would be a good idea.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Faith Must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense common honesty and common decency.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty the jury would never hear the evidence.

Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian and at once the world becomes explicable.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor it will be extremely costly.

Puritanism The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

We must respect the other fellow’s religionbut only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

It is the dull man who is always sure and the sure man who is always dull.

This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that and live that way you are really a wise man.

Man’s most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery is forethought.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today and in fact we have forgotten.

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker and needs no questioning before he speaks.

A sweet thing for whatever time to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.

Light be the earth upon you lightly rest.

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth Loses the past and is dead for the future.

The day is for honest men the night for thieves.

It is a man’s own mind not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body but an evil friend will wound your mind.

He is able who thinks he is able.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle wise people are diligent.

Believe nothing no matter where you read it or who said it no matter if I have said it unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.

Do not dwell in the past do not dream of the future concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Neither fire nor wind birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not like water and oil repel each other but should like milk and water mingle together.

Everything is changeable everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Nature never did betray, the heart that loved her.

The child is father of the man.

We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

That best portion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

We have within ourselves, enough to fill the present day with joy, and overspread the future years with hope.

We have within ourselves, enough to fill the present day with joy, and overspread the future years with hope.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Life’s cares are comforts; such by heaven design’d He that has none, must make them or be wretched.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.

He who learns but does not think, is lost He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Honeyed words and flattering looks seldom speak of love.

In learning and straightway practicing is there not pleasure also?

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Not to be known should not grieve you: grieve that ye know not men.

To love benevolence without loving learning is bound to lead to foolishness.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Study as if you were never to master it; as if in fear of losing it.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.

Study without thought is vain: thought without study is dangerous.

If you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life.

I was the only kid in the eighth grade wearing Wrangler Jeans… and Jellies! Nice. Nice.

I always wanted to be a snake. Everytime I saw a snake of TV. I’d always say WHY NOT ME?!?!

I don’t laugh out loud at comics a lot.

I was very good at kickball … I was wonderful at ah doing that kick and your leg goes up and your shoe went on top of the school.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

If somebody calls and messes with you on the phone like that you don’t become terrified, you mess back … If somebody calls and was like “have you checked the children?” I’d be like “I killed them!”

I have a new saying, what I see in vegas, I am telling everybody.

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

I want the acidy spit!! Why not me? Because you need to get a life that will get you farther than acid, try HEROIN!

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

I have never even had a sip of alcohol, never have done drugs. The hardest thing I have ever done would be Pepsi.

I don’t like it when you open your mouth and its like a battle of epic proportions going on.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people – how they act and such.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

I pardon him as God shall pardon me.

The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.

Women speak two languages – one of which is verbal.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.

Why are our days numbered and not, say lettered?

Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing; between 5 it’s fantastic…

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

At the moment it’s just a Notion, but with a bit of backing I think I could turn it into Concept, and then an Idea.

What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Genius is born–not paid.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
to know who his grandson will be.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend
is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just – that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.