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

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.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

You can expect interior enforcement actions in the future.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.