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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.