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 | "Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation." | |
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Found in the topic University.
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| "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a
sense of humor to console him for what he is." | |
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Found in the topic Imagination.
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| "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older
than I am." | |
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Found in the topic Old.
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| "Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for
the better designedly." | |
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Found in the topic Spontaneous.
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| "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time
is the greatest innovator." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; And writing an
exact man." | |
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Found in the topic Literature.
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| "Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what
they may expect." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for
they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or
mischief." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "The world"s a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion." | |
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Found in the topic Confuse.
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| "Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and
drowns things weighty and solid." | |
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Found in the topic False.
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| "All rising to great place is by a winding stair." | |
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Found in the topic Diet.
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| "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a
part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some
entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel." | |
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Found in the topic Travel.
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| "Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed, for prosperity doth best discover vice, But
adversity doth best discover virtue." | |
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Found in the topic Virtue.
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| "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion
as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is
contumely." | |
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Found in the topic God.
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| "Money is a good servant but a bad master." | |
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Found in the topic Money.
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| "If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man
cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to
possess him." | |
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Found in the topic Avarice.
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| "Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and
old authors to read." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "A king is one who has few things to desire and many things to
fear." | |
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Found in the topic Desire.
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