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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Reported in Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller, Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers (1904), p. 429.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense by Thomas Paine.In context
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine1737–1809The American Crisis (1776–1783), The Crisis No. I
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine1737–1809The American Crisis (1776–1783), The Crisis No. I
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once.
Thomas Paine1737–1809First Principles of Government (1795)
- Change
- Truth & Lies
This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967“The Little Hours” in Here Lies (1939)
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967“But the One on the Right” in The New Yorker (1929)
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
Four be the things I’d have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967Caption written for Vogue 1916
The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
Man’s nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur1822–1895
- Luck