We furnish our minds as we furnish our houses—with the fancies of others, and according to the mode and age of our country; we pick up our ideas and notions in common conversation as in schools. Bolingbroke.
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Lamb.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Emerson.
We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to 10 store; / Enough requires too much; too much craves more. Quarles.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in pleasant garments as well? Chamfort.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. La Roche.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. W. R. Alger.
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light." Horace Mann.
We hang little thieves, and take off our hats 15 to great ones. Ger. Pr.
We happiness pursue; we fly from pain; / Yet the pursuit, and yet the flight is vain. Prior.