The Last Word

By Courtney Andree | Monday, July 16, 2007

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
—Thomas Carlyle

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
—P. G. Wodehouse

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
—Kahlil Gibran

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
—David Hume

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
—Charles Lindbergh

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
—Marcel Proust

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
—Oscar Wilde

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
—Samuel Johnson

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
—Bertrand Russell

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
—W. C. Fields

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
—Alexander Pope

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
—Lord Salisbury

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
—Al Capone

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
—Raymond Chandler

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
—Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
—William Penn

I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
—Charlotte Bronte

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
—Reinhold Niebuhr

If you would not step into the harlot’s house, do not go by the harlot’s door.
—Thomas Secker

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
—Louis L’Amour

Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
—Saint Augustine

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
—D. H. Lawrence

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
—Aaron Burr

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
—Edith Sitwell

The Last Word

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