Chartacter Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices

acquired by age eighteen.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well

being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

I once wanted to become an atheist,

but I gave up — they have no holidays.

I’m not a fan of the mainstream.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Confidence is your best accessory.

Fall down seven times,

stand up eight.

Being the richest man in the cemetery

doesn't matter to me.

Going to bed at night saying

we've done something wonderful,

that's what matters to me.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,

always with the same person.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.

Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Duty,

perseverance,

and wisdom will guide the nation forward.

When you want something,

all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Love is merely a madness,

and I tell you deserves as well a dark house

and a whip as madmen do.

Life is full of misery,

loneliness,

and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation,

played with confidence,

stands a good chance to deceive.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,

'always do what you are afraid to do.'

When at last we are sure,

You've been properly pilled,

Then a few paper forms,

Must be properly filled.

So that you and your heirs,

May be properly billed.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought

forth on this continent, a new nation,

conceived in Liberty,

and dedicated to the proposition that

all men are created equal.