Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Steven Tyler

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.
Temple Grandin

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
Waylon Jennings

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson

When I get married it will be for keeps.
Natalie Wood

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden

One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Samuel Johnson

Fate keeps on happening.
Anita Loos

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
Henry James

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld