Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at ’em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y’know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
RIP Amy Winehouse. We lost a true heroin addict today.
A man’s enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.
You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
It is better to be idle than employed in ill.
We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
I’m not gay, so I don’t know much about Broadway musicals.
You can’t love your team without hating another team.