Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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