Gobbler

Ciao a tutti, sono Gobbler. Al momento sto cercando di vedere se e come posso contribuire a wikiquote e di seguito ho raccolto una serie di aforismi che forse potrei collocare da qualche parte.

Aforismi vari

• "If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak." (Richard Cecil)
• "The man recovered of the bite. The dog it was that died" (Goldsmith)
• "L'Orgueil et la Vanité ont plus bâti d'Hôpitaux, que toutes les Vertus ensemble." (Bernard de Mandeville, La Fable des abeilles)
• "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (Robert J. Hanlon).
• "A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind." (Ali)
• "A che pro adulare un poveraccio? Lecchi pure la lingua tutto zucchero e le rotule dei flaccidi ginocchi

si pieghino là dove il vile ossequio pensi di poter trarre profitto" (William Shakespeare, Amleto, atto III, scena II)

• "Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants"
• "Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands." (Joseph Parker)
• L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu (François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes)
• "Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see." (Lord Byron, Don Juan)
• "Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi" (Carlo Goldoni)
• "How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed" (Madame Necker)
• "A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side" - (Joseph Addison)
• "- The problem with some folks is they won't admit their faults. - I would, if I had any." (Unsourced)
• "Dogs bark at every one they do not know." (Heraclitus)
• "Selfishness must always be forgiven because there is no hope for a cure"
• "The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint".
• "It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble." (George Gissing)
• "If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself" - (Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Insulted and the Injured)
• "Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures" (Joseph Addison)
• "There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue." (Edmund Burke)

  "In other men we faults can spy,

And blame the mote that dims their eye;

Each little speck and blemish find,

To our own stronger errors blind."

(John Gay)