Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly willgive him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first...
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
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