in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
The late Bill Nye once said "I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
These facts are all on the credit side of the proposition that the Jew is a good and orderly citizen. Summed up, they certify that he is quiet, peaceable, industrious, unaddicted to high crimes and brutal dispositions; that his family life is commendable; that he is not a burden upon public charities; that he is not a beggar; that in benevolence he is above the reach of competition. These are the very quintessentials of good citizenship.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
I beseech your good lordship that order be taken to change this law, oh, let no more poor creatures be visited with its tortures.
Honesty is the best policy, when there is money in it.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
When you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are.