Sir W Temple quotes

" The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. " # Self-improvement # Opinions # Love

" The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. " # Abstinence # Poverty and The Poor # Exercise

" There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. " # Age and Aging # Freedom # Power

" The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. " # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Freedom # Power

" When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. " # Humankind # Humor # Love

" Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. " # Life and Living # Complaints and Complaining # Death and Dying

" No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. " # Poetry and Poets

" We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies. " # Atheism # Faith # Love

" When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. " # Prayer

" The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. " # Ability # Greatness # Body