I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

All for one and one for all.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

All for one, one for all.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Be good, be young, be true. Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world there is only the comparison of one state with another nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Happiness is egotistical.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one you will never want to live again only to dream forever.

We must never expect discretion in first love it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow it will choke you.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away, and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.

Slander and libel would not have such a force, if stupidity did not pave their way.

A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words--Wait and Hope.

All for one, and one for all.

However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.