Lord Chesterfield Famous Quotes
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
"If you are not in fashion, you are nobody."
"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."
Common sense is the best sense I know of.
"Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves."
"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."
Lord Chesterfield Quotations
"For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted."
Frantz Fanos
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."
Heinrich Heine
"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
Upton Sinclair
Laws were made to be broken.
Christopher North
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
Albert Einstein
"The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."
Edward Teller
"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ."
Martin Luther
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Pearl Buck