Aphorisms, sayings and quotations famous people    



The only medicine, which does women more good than harm, is dress.
By theme : Health   Women  

The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.
By theme : Nature   Philosophy  

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
By theme : Feelings   Old  

Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is that their persons are like their hearts - they read another`s better than they can their own.
By theme : Women  

It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak.
By theme : Psychology   Reason   Wisdom  

To love early and marry late is to hear a lark singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper.
By theme : Love   Marriage   Wit  

The only medicine which does women more good than harm is dress.
By theme : Women   Wit  

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
By theme : Character  

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
By theme : Behavior   Person  

It is a part of good breeding that a man should be polite even to himself.
By theme : Education   Person   Psychology  

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another`s.
By theme : Character   Men   Psychology  

 
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