"If you're not gonna fight, get out the way."
"Poets are always taking the weather so personally."
"A man without a dream is nothing more than a jellyfish."
"A bat must always react. A whale can plan."
"Only the shallow know themselves."
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a
great deal of it."
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."
"To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty
yourself."
"Happiness is never grand."
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
"First you borrow. Then you beg."
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict
themselves."
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable."
"Anyone can be a fisherman in May."
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he
fears."
"The shortest cut to riches is to despise riches."
"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it."
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something
to live for."
"Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises."
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act."
"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
others."
"To be too conscious is an illness."
"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being
eminent."
"The mind unlearns but slowly what it has learned for long."
"Feed men, and then ask of them virtue!"
"Good prose is like a windowpane."
"While we're asleep we're all equal, great and small, rich and
poor."
"For men injure either from fear or hatred."
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge
them."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of
fear."
"Prosperity is a turbulent thing; it torments itself."
"He who does not weep does not see."
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"They just keep it up till they break you."
"Prejudice is an opinion without judgment."
"Nature creates few men brave; industry and training makes
many."
"The best books are those that tell you what you already
know."
"Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old."
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the
broken places."
"A long dispute signifies that both parties are in error."
"Associate with those who will make a better man of you."
"Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas."
"How late it is to begin to live just when we must cease to
live."
"Nothing tickles that does not pinch."
"The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it."
"He that does wrong, does wrong to himself."
"I don't want comfort. I want poetry, I want real danger, I want
freedom. I want sin."
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
"The silly sayings of the rich pass for saws in the world."
"Fortune has no jurisdiction over character."
"Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear
most."
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
controls the past."
"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich."
"Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does
oneself."
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
"Tell the truth or trump — but get the trick."
"One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid
for."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to
another."
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to
make us love one another."
"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found
out."