63 quotes found
“We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.”
“Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.”
“He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.”
“You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.”
“I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.”
“Madam I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.”
“To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”
“Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.”
“Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.”
“I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.”
“Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.”
“When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”
“Take short views hope for the best and trust in God.”
“Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.”
“Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.”
“Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.”
“Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.”
“Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.”
“Whatever you are by nature keep to it never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.”
“He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.”
