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Show SHORT SAYINGS Time is the surest judge of truth. There is nothing insignificant nothing ! Fool questions usually beget fool answers. All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears. Our care should not be so much to live long, as to live well. Every man must fashion his gait according to his calling. The less work a man has to do the more he tires other people. Fools throw kisses, but the wise men deliver them in person. A good law without execution is like an unperformed promise. There are moments in life that are worth purchasing with worlds. All great alterations in human affairs af-fairs are produced by compromise. A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. Reflection sometimes shows yourself as you really are. It's tad weather that reveals a good seaman. People who are overwhelmed with sweetened praise and flattery think they, are "understood." Gentleness is revealed in the last analysis of greatness. The blusterer is always weak. Clap an extinguisher upon your irony, if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth. Plato. No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Zeno. If a man is too poor to lend 'his friends money be will retain them longer. The man who thinks funny tilings without expressing them is the worst kind of pessimist. A woman may listen to the advice of her husband, but she invariably . does as she pleases just the same. 'Man's greatest responsibility on thjs mundane sphere is woman and she never lets him forget it, either. Some women swear like men, while others" are so pious that they won't even darn socks. |