Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

We are so very ‚umble.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.