Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
California is a fine place to live–if you happen to be an orange.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.