Quotations from Everywhere

(Part Ten)

The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.