An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I don’t like being alone.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Common sense is not so common.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.