Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Famous Quotes
"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm."
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
"The more one works, the more willing one is to work."
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
"Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them."
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable."
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones."
"The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial."
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Quotations
"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."
Miles Davis
"You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility."
Lois McMaster Bujold
"My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it."
Richard Milhous Nixon
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk.
Sophocles
"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."
Peter Ustinov
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity."
Francis Maitland Balfour
"My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today."
Richard Adams
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Ken Olsen
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
Jacob Bigelow