'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den? T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee. If ever any beauty I did s...
We hurt one another. We go through life dressing up in new clothes and covering up our true motives. We meet up lightly, we drink rosé wine, and then we give each other pain. We don't want to! What we want to do, what one really wants to do is put o...
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
No one is without knowledge except he who asks no questions.
When the snake is in the house, one need not discuss the matter at length.
Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within.
He that asks knows one shame; he that doesn't knows two.
No one will give a pauper bread, but everybody will give him advice.
Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one.
Two lightning flashes cannot come from one cloud.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
A hundred "no's" are less painful than one insincere "yes."
Eighteen daughters beautiful as goddesses are not as good as one crippled son.
Even a big elephant can be caught in one female hair.
It is easy to get a thousand soldiers, but difficult to get one general.
