Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
My country is the world and my religion is to do good.
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My country is the world and my religion is to do good.
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud, leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
We are our past. And only through past is it possible to judge people.
Evil isn't growing old on the exterior, but not reamining young within.
Man is unhappy because he is insatiable.
There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.