Don't despise the nut, one day it will be a palm tree.
Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
If one word does not succeed, ten thousand are of no avail.
One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
The most highly praised woman is the one about whom no one speaks.
The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand.
Misfortune does not restrict his visits to one day.
The tall one wouldn't bend; the short one wouldn't stretch and the kiss was lost.
The old one who is loved is like a winter flower.
Who does not know one thing knows another.
Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
One must ask about the delight of opium from one who smokes it.
A good name reaches far but a bad one reaches farther.
I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter, an enormous, dazzling -why- that blots out everything...
Jack Sparrow: Anamaria. [Anamaria slaps Jack] Will Turner: I suppose, you didn't deserve that one either? Jack Sparrow: No, that one I deserved. Anamaria: You stole my boat! Jack Sparrow: Actually... Anamaria: [Anamaria slaps Jack again] Jack Sparrow...
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forge...
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.
Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.
With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in Go...
