Alphabet Quotes

Wishing to be friends

is quick work,

but friendship is a slow

ripening fruit.

Heard melodies are sweet,

but those unheard are sweeter.

A country is not a rock.

It is the people who make a country.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Where there is no struggle,

there is no strength.

Life has no limitations,

except the ones you make.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me.

The other day she told me to put the garbage out.

I said to her I already did.

She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature,

nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ambition is the path to success.

Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The things I want to know are in books;

my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,

while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

What I cannot create,

I do not understand.

Do not save what is left after spending;

instead spend what is left after saving.

The best way to preserve liberty is to be vigilant.

How accurately can the law fix the crime?

There has to be a mechanism for very fast action.

The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Friendship is

one mind in

two bodies.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

When you sit on a red

hot cinder a second seems like an hour.

That's relativity.