Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

Do not trust all men but trust men of worth the former course is silly the latter a mark of prudence.

We think there is color we think there is sweet we think there is bitter but in reality there are atoms and a void.

The offender who repents is not yet lost.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions his mistakes and weaknesses.

The wise man belongs to all countries for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination unless individuals harmed each other for envy creates the beginning of strife.

In a shared fish there are no bones.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.