Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. French translation
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
True friends stab you in the front.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Art provides the language we need to appreciate life.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
People usually are the happiest at home.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you test first and the lesson afterward.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
The heart was made to be broken.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.