Lady Nancy Astor Famous Quotes
"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
I married beneath me. All women do.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Lady Nancy Astor Quotations
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W Somerset Maugham
"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."
Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac
"Do today, what you usually can't do and save the frequent and usual things for tomorrow."
Cristina Rose Schumacher
May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift
"Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination"
Mark Twain
"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
Pierre Charron
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
Henri Frdric Amiel
"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody."
Benjamin Franklin
Forget the past and live the present hour.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
Real Live Preacher