A good beginning makes a good end. |
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. |
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. |
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. |
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. |
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter of him |
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. |
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. |
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. |
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. |
Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wastelands to the spirit. |
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. |
Neither drink (coffee or tea) was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my mustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter j |
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. |
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. |