Other Quotes

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.