Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

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

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

We are wiser than we know.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

There is no wealth but life.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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

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

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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.

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

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

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

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.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The art is long, life is short.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.