Words of Wisdom Quotes

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory. ~ A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ~ The Little Minister by James M. Barrie "Time is the great physician." ~ Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli "There is no such thing as unmixed evil. A man who loses his money gains, at least, experience, and sometimes something better." ~ The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli "Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life." ~ Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli "Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
For things that are not to be remedied." ~ Henry VI, Part One by William Shakespeare "I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong." ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins "Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught." ~ The Ambassadors by Henry James "Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself." ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." ~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll