Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

Black is a pearl in a womans eye.

Danger the spur of all great minds.

Fortune the great commandress of the world Hath diverse ways to advance her followers To some she gives honor without deserving To other some deserving without honor Some wit some wealth and some wit without wealth Some wealth without wit some nor wit nor wealth.

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Let pride go afore shame will follow after.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

News as wholesome as the morning air.

Light gains make heavy purses.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.