Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. |
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. |
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. |
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. |
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond. |
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. |
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young |
England and America are two countries divided by a common language. |
England and America are two countries separated by the same language. |
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. |
Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save': |
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes |
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. |
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. |
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. |