In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Im Leben kommt es nicht darauf an, ein gutes Blatt in der Hand zu haben, sondern mit schlechten Karten gut zu spielen.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere.
Solange wir lieben, dienen wir, solange wir von anderen geliebt werden, sind wir, ich möchte fast sagen, unentbehrlich.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Die traurigste Erscheinung der Zivilisation und meiner Ansicht nach das größte Eingeständnis ihres Scheiterns sind Menschen, die arbeiten können, die arbeiten wollen und denen man nicht erlaubt zu arbeiten.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Kein Vergnügen ist so leicht zu haben wie eine nette Konversation. Sie kostet kein Geld, bringt nur Gewinn, erweitert den Horizont, begründet und pflegt Freundschaften und läßt sich in jedem Alter und nahezu jeder gesundheitlichen Verfassung genießen.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Wein ist Poesie in Flaschen.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Keine Pflicht wird so sehr vernachlässigt, wie die Pflicht, glücklich und zufrieden zu sein.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Der Mensch ist ein Geschöpf, das nicht vom Brot allein lebt, sondern hauptsächlich von Schlagworten.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Die Ehe ist eine polizeilich anerkannte Freundschaft.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Ein Freund, das ist ein Geschenk das man sich selbst macht.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Sitz locker im Sattel des Lebens!
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Gegen die schlechte Stimmung: Mit der Hoffnung zu reisen ist besser, als das Ziel zu erreichen.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Müßiggehen verlangt ein starkes Selbstbewußtsein.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Jeder lebt davon, daß er etwas verkauft.
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Es gibt zwei Klassen von Menschen – die Löwen und die Lämmer.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Beurteile einen Tag nicht danach, welche Ernte du am Abend eingefahren hast. Sondern danach, welche Samen du gesät hast.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Der Preis, den wir für das Geld bezahlen, ist die Freiheit.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Eifersucht ist die radikalste, ursprünglichste und unverhohlenste Form der Bewunderung – sozusagen Bewunderung in Kriegsbemalung.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Politiker ist wohl der einzige Beruf, für den man keinerlei Ausbildung als notwendig erachtet.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Ständige Hingabe an das, was ein Mann sein Geschäft nennt, kann nur durch dauerndse Vernachlässigung vieler anderer Dinge aufrecht erhalten werden.
The world has no room for cowards.
Die Ehe ist eine lange Unterhaltung, unterbrochen durch Dispute.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Wenn deine Grundsätze dich traurig machen, verlaß dich drauf: Sie sind falsch.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Ein wenig Gesellschaft ist erforderlich, um einem Menschen seine Fehler zu zeigen.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Die Bestimmung unseres Lebens ist nicht der Erfolg, sondern heroisches Versagen.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Wenn das der Tod ist, ist er einfacher als das Leben.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Zu wissen, was Du willst, anstatt unterwürfig zu allem Ja und Amen zu sagen, von dem dir die Welt vorschreibt, daß du es wollen sollst, bedeutet, daß du deine Seele lebendig gehalten hast.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
In einem jeden von uns kämpfen zwei Eigenschaften: Das Gute und das Böse. Der Streit dauert unser ganzes Leben und einer muß gewinnen. Es liegt an uns selber, was wir wählen.
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Unsere Aufgabe im Leben ist es nicht, Erfolg zu haben, sondern unsere Mißerfolge guten Mutes zu ertragen.
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Die guten Stunden dauern und werden mit jedem Tag wichtiger.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Sie können es nicht allen recht machen. Lassen Sie sich durch Kritik nicht beeinflussen. Sie sollten nicht Ihre Nachbarn die Maßstäbe für Sie setzen lassen.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Kinder sind der Höhepunkt menschlicher Unvollkommenheit: Sie weinen. Sie stellen ärgerliche Fragen. Sie erwarten, daß man sie ernährt, wäscht, erzieht und ihnen die Nase putzt. Und im gegebenen Augenblick brechen sie uns das Herz.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Behalte deine Ängste für dich, aber teile deinen Mut mit anderen.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Nichts soll ein ehrlicher Mensch mehr fürchten, als mehr zu verdienen und mehr auszugeben, als ihm zukommt.
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Schweigen kann die grausamste Lüge sein.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Reichtum … allein der Besitz wirkt erniedrigend, neue Begierden keimen, und der alberne Hang zur Prahlerei zehrt die Seele des Genusses auf.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Im Schlechtesten der Menschen steckt noch soviel Gutes und im Besten noch so viel Böses, daß keiner befugt ist, zu urteilen und zu verurteilen.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Einen glücklichen Menschen zu finden ist besser als eine Fünfpfundnote. Er ist der Inbegriff strahlender Freundlichkeit, und wenn er den Raum betritt, so scheint es, als wäre noch ein Licht angezündet worden.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Im Laufe der Zeit lernen wir die Dinge lieben, die wir einst gehaßt haben, und die Dinge abzulehnen, die wir einst verehrt haben.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Alles in allem übertreiben die Leute die Schwierigkeiten des Lebens.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Du denkst, Hunde kommen nicht in den Himmel? Ich sage Dir, sie werden früher dort sein als irgendeiner von uns.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Jeder hat irgendwo eine gesunde Stelle.
The obscurest epoch is today.
Einen Charakter lieben ist nur der heroische Weg, ihn zu verstehen.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Kunst, sie ist ein Leben, das man leben muß.
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Liebe ist das große Amulett, das diese Welt in einen Garten verwandelt.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Zu sein,was wir sind, und zu werden, was wir werden können, ist der einzige Sinn des Lebens.
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Everyone lives by selling something.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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