We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein. . . Women want total freedom or rather - to call things by their names - total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters. . .
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.
I don't think Bruce Willis can compete with me. I have a much better voice.
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.