(278 quotes found)
“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”
Samuel Butler
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation”
“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
“Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all”
“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.”
“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
“Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.”
