in Quotes & Aphorisms (Enemy)
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convicted of it.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
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Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.
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My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.
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Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.
from the book "" by Paul W.S. Anderson
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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