Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
If you trap the moment before it's ripe The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe, But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe
William Blake
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
Winston Churchill
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
Circumstances do not make the man they reveal him.
James Allen
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert.
Lord Byron
