When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the window...
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.
If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.