Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at
The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.
A covetous man's penny is a stone.
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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