1. Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

2. Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.

3. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.

4. Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

5. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

6. One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.

7. Sex is a two-way treat.

8. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

9. What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely.

10. When you get something for nothing, you just haven’t been billed for it yet.

11. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

1. The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

More Quotations under the name Francois de La Rochefoucauld

1. A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

2. A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

3. As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

4. Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

5. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

6. Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

7. The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

1. All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

2. Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

3. Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

4. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

5. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

6. Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

7. Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

8. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

9. It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

10. The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

11. What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly - that is the first law of nature.

12. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

13. Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

14. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

15. The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing.

Born in Buddington, Sussex, Bourdillon was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He acted as tutor to the sons of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Later he lived in Eastbourne, and near Midhurst, Sussex.

He is known mostly for his poetry, and in particular the single short poem “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes“. He in fact had many collections published, including Among The Flowers, And Other Poems (1878), Minuscula: lyrics of nature, art and love (1897, siftings of three smaller volumes of verse published anonymously at Oxford in 1891, 1892, and 1894), Gerard and Isabel: a Romance in Form of Cantefable (1921), and also Chryseis, and Preludes and Romances (1908).

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying of the sun.