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A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.

Samuel Johnson

A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.

Samuel Johnson

Tags: insults, calumny

Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare

Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare

Tags: insults, calumny

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Thomas Carlyle

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Thomas Carlyle

Tags: insults, calumny

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Margot Asquith

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Margot Asquith

Tags: insults, calumny

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Tags: instincts

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Peter Cooper

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Peter Cooper

Tags: instincts

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Tags: insanity

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle bad is when they steal mine.

Hottentot proverb

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle bad is when they steal mine.

Hottentot proverb

Tags: innocence

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags: independence, ownership, possession

Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Plutarch

Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Plutarch

Tags: imitation

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Havelock Ellis

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Havelock Ellis

Tags: imagination

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Tags: illusion

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

Sophocles

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

Sophocles

Tags: ignorance

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

John P. Loughrane

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

John P. Loughrane

Tags: ignorance, self, acceptance

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tags: ignorance

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

John Lyly

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

John Lyly

Tags: ignorance

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

Spanish Proverb

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

Spanish Proverb

Tags: idleness

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so...

Sara Davidson

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so...

Sara Davidson

Tags: humour, humorists

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle

Tags: humour, humorists

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done...

Robert Frost

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done...

Robert Frost

Tags: human, relations, relationship
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