2,367 Quotes About Would-be

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

It would be good karma.