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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life. The unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use (Who Quotes)
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him (Who Quotes)
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy (Who Quotes)
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms (Who Quotes)
If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep (Who Quotes)
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time (Who Quotes)
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets (Who Quotes)
A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge (Who Quotes)
“You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are (Who Quotes)
Best friends are the people who make your problems their problems, just so you don't have to go through them alone (Who Quotes)
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong (Who Quotes)
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death (Who Quotes)
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best (Who Quotes)
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them (Who Quotes)
Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin (Who Quotes)
He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sun rise (Who Quotes)
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars (Who Quotes)
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past (Who Quotes)
We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure (Who Quotes)
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities (Who Quotes)
Children, don't speak so coarsely, said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library (Who Quotes)
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so (Who Quotes)
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do (Who Quotes)
Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying (Who Quotes)
I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard - even to vomiting - in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role (Who Quotes)
You cannot have liberty in this world without what you call moral virtue, and you cannot have moral virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call moral virtue (Who Quotes)
The young people, who were all Canadians, immediately formed themselves into a committee of the whole, from which they elected a working committee, which discussed the matter for about an hour, though as it was a committee the time seemed to be a year and a day (Who Quotes)
Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign Jackie Collins and they go away quite content (Who Quotes)
Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways? (Who Quotes)
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling (Who Quotes)