Good Sayings - 54

1061.  Who is cynic?  A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.  _Oscar Wilde

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1062.  In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.  _  Livy

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1063.  The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.  _  H.W. Beecher

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1064.  Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.  _  Marcus Aurelius

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1065.  Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.  _  Bulwer-Lytton

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1066.  The worst deluded are the self-deluded.  _  C.N. Bovee

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1067.  Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

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1068.  A man will fight harder for his interests than his rights.  _ Napoleon Bonaparte

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1069.  Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.  _ Niccolo Machiavelli 

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1070.  Take time to be sure, but be sure not to take too much time.

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1071.  The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. _Mme. Du Deffand

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1072.  To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are !

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1073.  A noble deed is a step toward God. _ J.G. Holland

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1074.  A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.  _ Henry Ford

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1075.  To yield to the stronger is valour's second prize.  _Martial

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1076.  To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. _ John W. Gardner

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1077.  By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the house of Never.  _ Cervantes

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1078.  People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. _ Lewis Cass

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1079.  Your obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.  _ Richard Bach

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1080.  We should aim rather at levelling down our desires than levelling up our means. _ Aristotle

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Good Sayings - 53

1041.  The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.  _ Macaulay.

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1042.  The world will never disarm until disambitioned.

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1043.  Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. _ O.W. Holmes

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1044.  What we earnestly aspire to be, that is some sense we are.  _ Anna Jameson

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1045.  It is safer to hear and take counsel than give it.

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1046.  Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion. _ Montaigne.

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1047.  All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great.  _ Bacon.

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1048.  We ask advice, but we mean approbation. _ C.C. Colton

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1049.  Anger wishes all mankind had only one neck; love, that is had only one heart.  _ J.P. Richter

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1050.  Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

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1051.  Truth, goodness and beauty are but different faces of the same all.  _  Emerson

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1051.  Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.

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1052.  Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.  _  Mark Twain

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1053.  It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. _ Aeschylus

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1054.  If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies.  _Sir Walter Raleigh

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1055.  A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.  _ Chesterfield

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1056.  A civil denial is better than a rude grant.

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1057.  Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.  _Euripides

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1058.  We easily forget crimes that are known only to ourselves. _ La Rochefoucauld

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1059.  Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.  _  Charles Buxton

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1060.  Curiosity is little more than another name for hope.  _ A.W. & J.C. Hare

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