Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche