Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Knowledge is true opinion.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I always wanted to be loved.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

When in doubt, don’t.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.