Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
While we read history we make history.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
It is not the ship so much as the skilled sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
I think that to have known one good, old manone man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peacehelps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons,
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be The waves that plunged along the shore Said only 'Dreamer, dream no more '
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories