Citatele zilei - Quotes of the day

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Discuss

A new machine invented in England deprives millions of Chinese workers of their livelihood within a year's time. In this way, big industry has brought all the people of the earth into contact with each other, has merged all local markets into one world market, has spread civilization and progress everywhere. Discuss

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Discuss

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Discuss

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Discuss

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. Discuss

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Discuss

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. Discuss

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. Discuss

Death ... goes faster than the wind, and he never brings back what he takes. Discuss

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. Discuss

It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared ... You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say. Discuss

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; And I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence. Discuss

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. Discuss

She might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. Discuss

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. Discuss

It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Discuss

A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart. Discuss

Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent
To say another is an ass-at least, to all intent;
Nor should the individual who happens to be meant
Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent.
Discuss

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." Discuss