159 quotes found
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
“The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.”
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
“People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.”
“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”
“The history of art is the history of revivals.”
“People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.”
“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.”
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
“The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”
“What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.”
“Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?”
“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”
