Ay me! what perils do environ / The man that meddles with cold iron! |
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficult |
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. |
Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek, As naturally as pigs squeak |
Birds are taken with pipes that imitate their own voices, and men with those sayings that are most agreeable to their own opinions |
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. |
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both |
But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease |
Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness |
Cleric before, and Lay behind; / A lawless linsy-woolsy brother, / Half of one order, half another. |
Compound for sins they are inclined to, by damning those they have no mind to |
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. |
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. |
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. |
Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organized and more naturally cohesive inter se. So the arctic volcano can do nothing against arctic ice. |