“Perhaps, if women had the franchise, men would not need to go to war neither.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 41
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“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one.”
“Doctrine is nothing but the skin of Truth set up and stuffed.”
“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”
“When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.”
“A servant is one who receives orders, and is not admitted to conference.”
“Everyman is full of music, but it is not everyman that knows how to bring it out.”
“A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past.”
“Times of general calamity and confusion, have ever been productive of the greatest minds.”
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them.”
“Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.”
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”
“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.”
“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”