20 Quotations by Alexander Smith
- 1. A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
- 2. A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- 3. Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
- 4. Everything is sweetened by risk.
- 5. I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world whil ...
- 6. I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
- 7. If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
- 8. If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distincti ...
- 9. If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have ...
- 10. If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
- 11. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
- 12. Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- 13. One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible ...
- 14. The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
- 15. The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
- 16. There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
- 17. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
- 18. Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
- 19. We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
- 20. When a man is happy, every effort to express his happiness mars its completeness
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