Lord Chesterfield quotes

" I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. " # Time and Time Management

" Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. " # Discretion

" The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. " # Age and Aging # Lies and Lying # Heart

" Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. " # Time and Time Management

" Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. " # Knowledge # Books - Reading # Experience

" Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. " # Advice

" A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. " # Mind # Affection # Pornography

" A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. " # Manners

" Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. " # Choice

" Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word. " # Character