Posted by: Marilů Rossi
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Experience is of no ethical value. It is merely the name men give to their mistakes.
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Experience is of no ethical value. It is merely the name men give to their mistakes.
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman he knows it is bad for him.
Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are.
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
I don't need money. Only who pays their accounts needs it. I never close them.