There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost

Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Bob Dylan

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Lao Tzu

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Mae West

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West