Great Throughts Treasury

"To be prepared is half the victory."

"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."

"Patience and shuffle the cards."

"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."

"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."

"Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it."

"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."

"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."

"God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger... balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise."

"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all."

"One man is no more than another if he does no more than another."

"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable."

"I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it."

"There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other."

"Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones."

"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."

"Every one is the son of his own works."

"All music jars when the soul is out of tune."

"Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are (thou art)."

"There is a strange charm in the hope of a good legacy that wonderfully reduces the sorrow people otherwise may feel for the death of their relatives and friends."

"The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it."

"That which costs little is less valued."

"Mind your own business."

"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."

"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault."

"True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness."

"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope."

"Fair and softly goes far."

"Take away the cause, and the effect ceases; what the eye ne'er sees, the heart ne'er rues."

"I can tell where my own shoe pinches me."

"A woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool."

"The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach."

"For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences."

"Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies"

"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."

"I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes."

"Every production must resemble its author."

"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."

"Let us not throw the rope after the bucket."

"Absence, that common cure of love."

"A closed mouth catches no flies."

"A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty."

"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse."

"A word to the wise is enough."

"Beauty in a good woman is like fire at a distance or a sharp sword; the one does not burn, or the other wound, those who come not too close."

"By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece."

"Can we ever have too much of a good thing?"

"Experience is the universal mother of sciences."