Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
English proverb
1804 - 1881. British politician, novelist, and essayist, two times was a Prime Minister.
1. "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."
source: "Coningsby"
Categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Youth and Age
2. "When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
source: "Contarini Fleming"
Categories: Law and Crime
3. "Variety is the mother of Enjoyment."
source: "Vivian Grey"
Categories: Joy and Sadness
4. "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned lies, and Statistics."
Categories: Truth and Falsity
5. "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
Categories: Various -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
6. "The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."
source: "Tancred"
Categories: History and Nations
7. "The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
Categories: Success and Fame
8. "The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
Categories: Success and Fame
9. "The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
Categories: Various
10. "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
source: "Henrieta Temple"
Categories: Love -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
11. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
Categories: Human -:- Good and Evil
12. "Success is the child of audacity."
source: "The Rise of Iskander"
Categories: Success and Fame
13. "Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."
Categories: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics
14. "Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth."
Categories: Truth and Falsity
15. "Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."
Categories: Oration and Silence
16. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
Categories: Egoism
17. "Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
source: "Vivian Grey"
Categories: Human -:- Power and Weakness
18. "Like all great travellers [...] I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
source: "Vivian Grey"
Categories: Memory
19. "Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour."
source: "Coningsby"
Categories: Life and Death
20. "Justice is truth in action."
source: (or Joseph Joubert)
Categories: Justice -:- Truth and Falsity
21. "I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."
source: "Lothair"
Categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man
22. "I am prepared for the worst, but hope the best."
source: "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy"
Categories: Optimism and Hope
23. "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
Categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various
24. "Fear makes us feel our humanity."
source: "Vivian Grey"
Categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Human
25. "As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
Categories: Success and Fame -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
26. "A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
Categories: Destiny and Fate
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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