One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
A real man wouldn't lay a finger on a woman. He treats his partner with respect, love and support. Men are physically stronger and have no place abusing that power. Everyone has problems, and arguments happen, but that's when a real man uses his intelligence to talk it out.
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage. . . What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. . . the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i. e. , he must be a dialectical materialist.
I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah. . .