Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time when out of place they are offensive.

A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers but he is a laughing stock to those who know him.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.