- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21842/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21842/ <![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14677/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14677/ <![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14804/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14804/ <![CDATA[Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18637/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18637/ <![CDATA[We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26478/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26478/ <![CDATA[Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22880/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22880/ <![CDATA[The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32752/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32752/ <![CDATA[One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5747/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5747/ <![CDATA[There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41064/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41064/ <![CDATA[The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40695/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40695/ <![CDATA[Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9696/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9696/ <![CDATA[Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33079/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33079/ <![CDATA[The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29397/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29397/ <![CDATA[In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1261/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1261/ <![CDATA[We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1460/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1460/ <![CDATA[Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37770/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37770/ <![CDATA[Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34824/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34824/ <![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34819/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34819/ <![CDATA[No age seemed the age of romance to itself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34821/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34821/ <![CDATA[Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34825/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34825/ <![CDATA[The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22367/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22367/ <![CDATA[Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22366/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22366/ <![CDATA[A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16856/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16856/ <![CDATA[In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15361/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15361/ <![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13624/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13624/ <![CDATA[But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13354/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13354/ <![CDATA[Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13254/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13254/ <![CDATA[No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12833/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12833/ <![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11036/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11036/ <![CDATA[Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/118/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/118/ <![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24518/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24518/ <![CDATA[Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2704/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2704/ <![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19836/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19836/ <![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/25117/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/25117/ <![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33344/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33344/ <![CDATA[One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33728/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33728/ <![CDATA[In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33345/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33345/ <![CDATA[Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33346/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33346/ <![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33199/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33199/ <![CDATA[The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33200/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33200/