Plainview: [Eli is intending to bless the well] I thank you all so much for visiting with us at this time. I've had the pleasure of meeting some of you, and I hope, very much in the months to come, I'll be able to visit with each and every one of you...
When a hundred men call a wise man a fool, then he becomes a fool.
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.
When the poor man sets a trap only his dog gets caught.
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
You have to put a young girl onto an old man.
A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.
A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.
We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
I don't know that praise is always a good thing.
