One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. |
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. |
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world. |
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. |
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. |
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant- the digitalis of failure |
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus, the digitalis of failure. |
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. |
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. |
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. |
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain |
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them. |
People who take pains never to do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do |
Perfume : any smell that is used to drown a worse one |
Play needs direction as well as work. |