70 quotes found
“Plodding wins the race.”
“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
“Example is the best precept.”
“Much wants more and loses all.”
“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
“...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.”
“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
“An Ass put on a Lion's skin and wentAbout the foreset with much merriment,Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks,Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath th...”
“It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.”
“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
“Do not waste your pity on a scamp.”
“Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep”
“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”
“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
“The value is in the worth, not in the number.”
“I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.”
“The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?”
