Mike Melville's Quotes

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Bad company corrupts good character.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Culture makes all men gentle.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

The man who runs may fight again.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.