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When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XLIIn context
- Men
- Women
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IIn context
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing⁠—absolute nothing⁠—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIn context
- Happiness
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene II, spoken by PortiaIn context
- Virtue
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act III, Scene II, spoken by BenedickIn context
- Emotion
Sell when you can; you are not for all markets.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act III, Scene V, spoken by RosalindIn context
- Clever Jabs
Time enough to think of the future when you haven’t any future to think of.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Pygmalion (1912), Act II, spoken by HigginsIn context
- Time
Whensoever by some present hard occurrences thou art constrained to be in some sort troubled and vexed, return unto thyself as soon as may be, and be not out of tune longer than thou must needs.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations (c. 170–180), The Sixth BookIn context
- Emotion
A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527The Prince (1532), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Leadership
- Wisdom
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
- Life & Death
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Remember (1862)In context
- Happiness
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936If— (1910)In context
- Character
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Down by the Salley Gardens (1889)In context
- Youth
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.
Charles Kingsley1819–1875A Farewell (1858)In context
- Virtue
As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 4In context
- Fear