I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

The merchant has no country

The merchant has no country

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the...

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the...

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living...

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living...

The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as...

The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as...

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves...

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves...

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy...

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy...

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into...

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or...

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or...

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of...

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of...

The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people.

The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave

I cannot live without books.

I cannot live without books.

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his...

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his...

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who...

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who...