| Quotes |
Topic |
| Lying | I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. |
| Lying | Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. |
| Lying | We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. |
| Music | Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. |
| Nature | Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. |
| Opinions | Opinions have vested interests just as men have. |
| Progress | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. |
| Reason | If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. |
| Religion | The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. |
| Tact | It is tact that is golden, not silence. |
| Tact | Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. |
| Truth | Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. |
| Vices | The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. |
| Waste | Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. |
| Welfare | The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence. |
| Abhorrence | The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for. |
| Ability | He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratched. |
| Ability | For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see. |
| Ancestry | A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. |
| Apparitions | Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. |
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