Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
You only grow when you are alone.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Only you can control your future.
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
A fun pair of earrings is basically the finishing touch to any outfit; a nice watch is both practical and decorative, while the perfect unique bag is not only eye-catching but also timeless – it can be passed on to future generations.
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
Our only security is our ability to change.
You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
