The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.
The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
Art is one of man's few serious activities.
You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.
The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.
A small poet repeats himself like a clock.
A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.
A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.
Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
Better a bald head than none at all.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: