Edward BulwerLytton Famous Quotes
"The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains."
"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life."
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
"It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword."
Edward BulwerLytton Quotations
"No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."
Danish proverb
"The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle."
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
"If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it."
Lawana Blackwell
"Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds."
Helen Hoover Santmyer
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
Sophie Tucker
"Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think."
Mary Wortley Montagu
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
"If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules First, calm down second, come over and wash my car third, shine all my shoes. There, isn't that better"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf