wisdom Quotes

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Beware the hobby that eats.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.