It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
I have my standards. They may be low but I have them.
Let's just say he has too many pigeons on his antenna.
If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the ba...
We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask ou...
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
I don't believe in astrology - of course that's very typical of Leos.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
I never gossip but I can give you the names of certain people who do.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.
That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If y...
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.
I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.
Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer th...
We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two, Lowell suggested.