Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. |
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. |
Neither have the hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away |
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. |
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. |
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. |
Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily |
Oaths are but words, and words but wind |
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. |
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground |
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind |
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind |
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. |
Our last and best defense, despair; Despair, by which the gallantest feats have been achieved in greatest straits |
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone. |