Posts on ‘June 15th, 2008’

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense,common honesty, and common decency. [...]

There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands… but English women only [...]

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.~Isaac D’Israeli
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.~William [...]