When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

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

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Bob Marley

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare