Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
She is elegant rather than belle.
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
In Afghanistan, the viceroy approach would reduce rampant fraud by focusing spending on initiatives that further the central strategy, rather than handing cash to every outstretched hand from a U.S. system bereft of institutional memory.
There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
I've worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here's the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
