Great Throughts Treasury

"Fortune favors the brave."

"From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain."

"Gentleness and affability conquer at last."

"Give place to your betters."

"He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection."

"He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can."

"He is wise who tries everything before arms."

"He blushes: all is safe."

"He need not go away from home for instruction."

"He who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return which he will not like."

"How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!"

"He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like."

"How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!"

"How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy."

"How often things occur by mere chance, which we dared not even to hope for."

"How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit."

"How often events, by chance, and quite unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for"

"Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own."

"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."

"I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me."

"I am a man, nothing that is human do I think unbecoming in me."

"I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me."

"I am the most concerned in my own interests."

"I believe because it is impossible."

"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself."

"I did not care one straw."

"I do not buy hope with money."

"I give not gold for mere expectations."

"I do think, though, longer term the semiconductor area, both equipment makers and the chip producers, is probably the best area to be in this market looking forward,"

"I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall?"

"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."

"I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]"

"I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]"

"I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad."

"I know the nature of women. When you will, they will not; when you will not, they come of their own accord."

"I know the ways of women they won't come when thou wilt, and when thou won't they are passionately fond."

"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won’t; when you won’t, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."

"I like it here and I don't want to leave, but no-one seems to care what we think."

"I think it is better to have two strings to my bow."

"I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper."

"I think to a certain extent the market can live with fourth-quarter earnings which are not necessarily stellar... Provided some of the forward-looking statements provide an underlying basis for the optimism that we have."

"I took to my heels as fast as I could."

"I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must yield to them."

"I take it to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing."

"If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can."

"I will make you always remember this place, this day, and me."

"If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything."

"I'm very disappointed that after a lot of hard work and a public consultation and the reluctant agreement of Ware residents to approve 70 homes, we are now being asked to approve another 30."

"Immortal gods! How much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!"

"In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."