Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.