top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
Standard
Customized
More
"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
Men
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
Love
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
Success
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
Habit
"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
People
"When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right."
People
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
More
"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The remedy is worse than the disease."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We never repent of having eaten too little."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page