Wisdom Sayings

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Na Ham Hindu Na Musalmaan - I am not a Hindu, nor am I a Muslim.

Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

A worm is a worm, and a man is a man. But if you compare a man to a worm, you will see that a man is only a worm.

I am not afraid to confess that I am a man who loves to dissect.

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Joseph, let us go away. They are throwing us out of here. Where shall we go?

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you.

I sent my ships against men, not against the seas.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

I was much disgusted at the first sight of the people. They were as rude and ill-favoured as their houses.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

I have often tried to grasp that which I have found.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.

The only way to keep a secret between two is to kill one of them.

It took them only an instant to cut off that head, but France may not produce another like it in a century.

It is a fact well known to many, that persons who have had the Cow Pox, are for ever after secure from the infection of the Small Pox.

I have made an engine that shall not waste a single particle of steam.