Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

One of the great constants in life is change.

I groan but answer the call in a sing song voice."Kitty Lung, hero or terrorist, you take your pick.

3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Third time pays for all

Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.