I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
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