"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."

Johnson, Samuel | Questions | 1 bookmarks

"Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer."

Defoe, Daniel | Wealth | 1 bookmarks

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore | Education | 7 bookmarks

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. | Ability | 15 bookmarks

"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Rogers, Will | Experts | 1 bookmarks

"Gentlemen do not read each others mail. "

Stimson, Henry Lewis | Uncategorised | 1 bookmarks

"The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley | Humor | 1 bookmarks

"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."

Walpole, Horace | Life and Living | 1 bookmarks

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

Walpole, Horace | Tragedies | 2 bookmarks

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

Roosevelt, Theodore | America | 4 bookmarks