A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. – Mahatma Gandhi Category: Sincerity
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. – Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Women
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted. – Andre Gide Category: Listening