The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Absence, that common cure of love.

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. -Unknown.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. •Greg Anderson A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. •Jean De La Bruyère Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. •Robert Dato A wish is a desire without an attempt. •Farmer Digest Oh, the secret life of man and woman -- dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. •Zelda Fitzgerald Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. •Jean Toomer Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. •Anonymous Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. •St. Augustine When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. •Elizabeth Bowen Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. •Goethe Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

There are three ways to obtain wealth: inheritance, luck, and hard work. None is guaranteed, but you have no influence over the first two.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly ... given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.

But when he shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind.

Don't love the things you own, lest they own you.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.