“Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.”

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

If you want to do something, do it!

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

No man has perpetual good fortune.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones.” [Bashar] Assad’s people rebelled.

True or false, that never dies

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families’ histories

But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

Seated one day at the organ