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Austen Jane (1775-1817)
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
There certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
To be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.
Bierce Ambrose (1842-1914)
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof…Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief…in the greatness of one's country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance of one's personal affairs, and in the interesting nature of one's diseases.
Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
Bronte Charlotte (1816 -1855)
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Liberty…is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Conan Doyle Arthur (1859 -1930)
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Conrad Joseph (1857-1924)
Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.
Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
Chesterton Gilbert (1874-1936)
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. Thus it is considered more withering to accuse a man of bad taste than of bad ethics.
Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chopin Kate (1851-1904)
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
Darwin Charles (1809-1882)
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
How great would be the desire in every admirer of nature to behold, if such were possible, the scenery of another planet!
Dickens Charles (1812-1870)
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
There are talkers enough among us; I'll be one of the doers.
"Always suspect everybody." That's the maxim to go through life with!
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been.
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
Dumas Alexandre (1802-1870)
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Eliot George (1819-1880)
One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Emerson Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
It is not the office of a man to receive gifts … We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Envy is ignorance.
Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Fielding Henry (1707-1754)
We are as liable to be corrupted by our books as by our companions.
Homer (900 BC-800 BC)
If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.
Light is the task where many share the toil.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Victory is ever fickle.
Irving Washington (1783-1859)
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Jerome Jerome K. (1859-1927)
Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in front, not behind us; and "Forward!" is our motto.
In the sun-time, when the world is bounding forward full of life, we cannot stay to sigh and sulk … but if the misfortune comes at 10PM, we read poetry or sit in the dark and think what a hollow world this is.
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
Everything looms pleasant through the softening haze of time. Even the sadness that is past seems sweet.
Kennedy John F. (1917-1963)
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Kipling Rudyard (1865-1936)
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Maugham W. Somerset (1874-1965)
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome…It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer.
Maud Montgomery Lucy (1874-1942)
While solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
There's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it … You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.
Nietzsche Friedrich (1844-1900)
The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.
Shelley Mary (1797-1851)
Live, and be happy, and make others so.
Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Stoker Bram (1847-1912)
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.
Swift Jonathan (1667-1745)
The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
Thoreau Henry David (1817-1862)
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
Twain Mark (1835-1910)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"—which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket!"
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
Wharton Edith (1862-1937)
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Wilde Oscar (1854-1900)
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Wiggin Kate (1856-1923)
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
It does make a difference what you call things.
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
Woolf Virginia (1882-1941)
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.
