There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning accompanied with ill bringing-up are far more fatal.

The worst mistake of first contact made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history I think to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.