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Many Emerson quotations about self-confidence can be hard to live up to after many "baby steps".

Many good things in life may start to dwindle through lack of discretion or through much exposure. Celebrities in dark glasses are on the way to find out the best advantages are solid ones and not easily sucked away by public exposure and erasure.

Many limits are needed to give the life the purposes.

Many things are difficult before they are easy. - Cf. Thomas Fuller

Many who seem to be friends, but "All are not friends that speak us fair (American)." - [Good friends]

[Many] works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination? ⚶ Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

Men love to wonder, and that is a seed of science. - With Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mirthful imagery can help some, and many comic books may support that notion.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. - Albert Einstein

Much more goes into a well calculated life than being clear-sighted and well-behaved.

Much Oriental teaching, like Zen, may look like humour at first glance, as Reginald Horace Blyth documents. - Reginald Horace Blyth, author of Oriental Humour (1963).

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. - Anon

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Need makes the naked man run. (Proverb). The other way round: Running a lot makes men undress a lot.

No matter what many carpenters tell you, or how often they say they like you, contracted carpenters are not actually real buddies.

No matter where you go, there you are. - Confucius

No one listens a lot to anyone else; if you try it for a while you could see why. - With Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science. - Martin H. Fischer

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One has to be decent or all right within to grab truths and live by some of them to one's benefit.

One of the reasons for the Protestant Reformation was the papal clergy's abuse of faith. Masked clowning is clowning still.

One's inner, guiding light supports or destroys life.

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pithy sentences can be like sharp nails which force truth on our memory. - With Denis Diderot

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Ready to believe, easy to deceive.

Reasoned learning can be helped by reasoned study methods fit for happy recall.

Remain staunch to thrive. One should also work and plan so as not to get all ensnared.

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Sages and their sons live at the places of virtuous souls to become well-cultured. - Cf. Atharva Veda

Say "Bah!" to stupid disregard of the flesh the sooner the better.

Sleep deprivation for long can make a person insane.

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. - Unknown

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Smile while you still have teeth.

Snakes hiss; pigs grunt. - Sathya Sai Baba

So profound that they could not be understood. . . . - From Tao Te Ching, chapter 15, in Lin Yutang's translation (1963.1963)

Solid truth, in the long run, can be common sense clarified. - With Thomas H. Huxley

Some art galleries contain works of many guys who were considered insane and devilish for a long time. Pablo Picasso was one of them. (Warnke, Carsten-Peter. 1995. Pablo Picasso 1881-1973. Vol 1 and 2. Köln: Taschen Verlag).

Some folks write a lot from experience; others, from experience, don't write a lot. (Saying)

Some forms of vanity could reflect unfulfilled, personal elegance.

Some people waste time on soap operas and reruns that swarm the market, without wise making use of them and it.

Some practice Transactional Analysis, TA, to combat fraud and ignorance in the home and outside it later, as the case may be. In order to attain to a far more friction-free love-life too, TA may be tried.

Some things are natural to us, others are acquired by much and careful thought for long, hard training and fit equipment and proceeding in fit ways, as when building, keeping, and using a boat.

Someone may study hard and walk about in jeans and look shabby, feeling free and depending little. Both students and able scientists could manifest something of the sort.

Sound sleep is marked by repeated cycles of dreaming (during REM sleep phases) that may seem ridiculous at first glance. See if there is not any deeper instruction embedded in dreams and feelings they leave behind if you mean to go into them. Some dreams indicate counter-balances, other dreams reflect a situation,a nd so on.. Carl G. Jung developed ways of understanding one's dreams, and Edgar Cayce did too. [Sleep studies]

Striving to show off, mainly, is at best only a meagre or low-levelled sort of success.

Study of the thoughts and thinking patterns of others may do us good. Wit and wisdom often rides on top of that again - yet it depends.

Study so as to know what resources to draw on as you go ahead.

Study to ask thorough-going questions. "If you don't understand other people, how can you say they are excellent?" is one.

Substantial progress should lie in adhering to truths as they come to us.

Superficial adjustments make for conformity, which calls for conformity proficiency, such as "Keep to the best, leave the rest." But many conformist dangers could lie in: "You can't go wrong with what lots of others take to." If we get dissatisfied, getting a gun and shooting a lot may not get rid of all the dangers after all.