All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

He that is rich is wise.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished or the luster of it will never appear.

A rich man is an honest man—no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.