Living and lifetime Quotes

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong

Honesty is the best policy

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away

Time is the wisest counselor of all

You can never plan the future by the past

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst

Culture makes all men gentle