Baltasar Gracian
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of…
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
God's colors all are fast.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight,…
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who…
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
God is dead.
If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Baseball is the belly-button of our society.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Remember to lean back in the parade so everybody can see the president. Be sure not to get too…
History is more or less bunk.
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. steroids life
Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's…
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
A lie cannot live.
Youth has no age.
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now.…
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid…
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom ? and of whom only ? it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did…
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
There are only two places in the league--first place and no place.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or…
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.
No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care.
Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library…
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part.
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see…
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
A right delayed is a right denied.