Tionana

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
Each generation produces its squad of ''moderns'' with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Only sick music makes money today.

To read too many books is harmful.
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers: Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Drink to me.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.