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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Charles Caleb Colton
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27) Horace
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
fools-and-foolishness four pride taxed taxes-and-taxation three twice
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. Benjamin Franklin
fools-and-foolishness money
A fool and his money are soon parted. Thomas Tusser
fools-and-foolishness metals pocket precious uses
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.
fools-and-foolishness life slave survey takes
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. William Shakespeare
fools-and-foolishness minutes takes twenty
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. Helen Rowland
fools-and-foolishness judges maketh
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
fools-and-foolishness high keeps pay people reasons until
There are reasons why people pay for high growth, and they typically overpay. It's a fool's game, and it keeps going until it doesn't keep going.