Oliver Platt's Quotes

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

You must spend money to make money.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

A word to the wise is enough.

Conquered, we conquer.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.