Other Quotes

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

To be happy, make other people happy.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.