You can always tell a well informed man . . . his ideas are the same as yours. [Anonymous]
Precaution is better than cure. [Edward Coke]
The goal of all life is death. [Sigmund Freud]
Love and a cough cannot be hid. [George Herbert]
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. [Winston Churchill]
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. [P. Johnson]
Fear is the mother of foresight. [Henry Taylor]
The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails. [William Arthur Ward]
Do not mistake a child for his symptom. [Erik Erikson]
In music the passions enjoy themselves. [Friedrich Nietzsche]
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Juvenal]
In war there is no prize for runner-up. [Omar N. Bradley]
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. [Seneca]
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell! [Thomas Dekker]
Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. [Thomas Fuller, M.D.]
Don't vote. You'll only encourage them. [Anonymous]
A goal is just a dream with a deadline. [Wayne Clark]
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence. [Dr. Benjamin Spock]
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. [H. Rowland]
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. [William Hazlitt]
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. [Mark Twain]
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. [Abraham Lincoln]
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Ovid]
Time and tide wait for no man. But time always stands still for a woman of thirty. [Robert Frost]
It takes two to make a marriage succeed and only one to make it fail. [Anonymous]
A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same. [Elbert Hubbard]
Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it. [Anonymous]
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. [C. C. Colton]
If modern civilized man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise greatly. [Morgenstern]
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. [Akhenaton]
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. [Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe]
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. [George Jean Nathan]
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. [Proverb]
The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden. [Anonymous]
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. [Laurence Sterne]
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. [Thomas H. Huxley]
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. [Confucius]
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. [Alfred Lord Tennyson]
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. [Geo. Herbert]
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but none at all is fatal. [V. Samuel]
It is all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then. [R. Armour]
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. [Franτois Duc De La Rochefoucauld]
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. [Elbert Hubbard]
To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint. [Anonymous]
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. [Samuel Butler]
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. [Gandhi]
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. [C. Coolidge]
Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. [James Russell Lowell]
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. [Henry David Thoreau]
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. [Thomas Fuller, M.D.]
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. [Victor Hugo]
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. [Horace]
I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. [B. Washington]
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. [Proverb]
Any twenty year old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any forty year old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain. [W. Churchill]
Progress is like a wheelbarrow - if you don't keep pushing it stops. [Anonymous]
Remember you are unique . . . just like everybody else! [Guru Stu]
The wages of sin is alimony. [C. Wells]
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. [Robert F. Kennedy]
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. [Edmund Burke]
Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheap. [Anonymous]
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. [Friedrich W. Nietzsche]
Some folks are so contrary that if they fell in a river, they'd insist on floating upstream. [J. Billings]
The grass is brown on both sides of the fence. [Anonymous]
A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. [Confucius]
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. [Samuel Johnson]
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. [Benjamin Franklin]
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. [John Davies]
Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy. [R. W. Emerson]
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in. [A. Brisbane]
Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates. [A. Lowell]
Study the past, if you would divine the future. [Confucius]
Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present. [Bill Keane]
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. [Harvey Firestone]
If you seek friends who can be trusted, go to the cemetery. [Proverb]
Death is hereditary. [Anonymous]
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. [Charles Lamb]
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? [Robert Browning]
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. [Jawaharlal Nehru]
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. [Elbert Hubbard]
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Joseph Joubert]
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. [Arabian Proverb]
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give. [Tryon Edwards]
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. [Diogenes Laertius]
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. [Walter Linn]
Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love. [Antiphanes]
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. [Benjamin Franklin]
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. [Baltasar Gracian]
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. [Victor Hugo]
As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. [Akhenaton]
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. [Anonymous]
A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed. [F. Hubbard]
A yawn is a silent shout. [Anonymous]
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. [Titus Maccius Plautus]
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. [Benjamin Disraeli]
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. [Josh Billings]
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears, by listening to them. [Dean Rusk]
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. [Oscar Wilde]
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. [Elbert Hubbard]
Silence is not always golden; sometimes it is yellow. [Anonymous]
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. [Bill Cosby]
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it. [Joseph Joubert]
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music. [Agnes de Mille]
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. [S. Smith]
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. [Voltaire]
Ideas are precious. An idea is the only lever which moves the world. [Arthur F. Corey]
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. [Henry David Thoreau]
Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a light in the heart. [Kahlil Gibran]
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. [B. Disraeli]
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. [Roger Babson]
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. [George Sand]
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. [Buddha]
When a woman really loves a man, he can make her do anything she wants to do. [Anonymous]
The man who never lends money never has many friends. He doesn't need them. [Anonymous]
Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; married, a donkey. [Spanish Proverb]
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. [William Jennings Bryan]
Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. [C. Browne]
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. [J. Barrymore]
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. [John F. Kennedy]
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. [Demonax the Cynic]
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. [Burton Hills]
When one has had to work so hard to get money, why should he impose on himself the further hardship of trying to save it. [Don Herald]
There is no such thing as a non-working mother. [Hester Mundis]
Let him that would move the world first move himself. [Socrates]
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. [Abraham Lincoln]
Some day my ship will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport. [Anonymous]
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. [Christian Nestell Bovee]
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. [G. B. Shaw]
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. [Sivananda]
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. [Henry Ward Beecher]
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. [G. Chesterton]
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination. [Calvin Coolidge]
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Most of us know how to say nothing. Few of us know when. [Anonymous]
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one an enemy. [P. Syrus]
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. [S. Johnson]
There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity. [Gen. Douglas MacArthur]
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. [Oprah Winfrey]
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization - It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. [Charles Sorenson]
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. [Anonymous]
Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves. [Anonymous]
Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. [Arthur D. Little]
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. [Roy L. Smith]
Most women are not as young as they are painted. [Max Beerbohm]
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. [Sophocles]
The road to success is marked with many parking places. [Anonymous]
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. [Jonathan Swift]
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. [Thomas Alva Edison]
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. [Plato]
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. [Anwar El-Sadat]
A good indignation brings out all one's powers. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind. [Franklin D. Roosevelt]
The hardest task of a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. [H. Rowland]
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. [Publilius Syrus]
Silence is one of the hardest things to refute. [Josh Billings]
He who uses bad language is an ignorant schmuck. [Anonymous]
It matters not how many fish are in the sea . . . if you don't have any bait on your hook. [Dial West]
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. [Confucius]
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. [Terence]
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. [Anonymous]
When a person is always right, there is something wrong. [Anonymous]
He who speaks, knows not. He who knows, speaks not. [Lao Tzu]
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots. [Mark Twain]
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. [Voltaire]
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. [Mark Twain]
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. [Anonymous]
Never refuse a breathmint! [Matt Lewis]
Never mind what I told you; you do as I tell you. [W. C. Fields]
A moneylender serves you in the present tense, lends you in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjunctive, and ruins you in the future. [J. Addison]
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. [C. Wells]
The human soul needs actual beauty more that bread. [D.H. Lawrence]
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. [Benjamin Franklin]
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. [Jorge Luis Borges]
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. [James Hillman]
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. [Arnold Bennett]
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. [Benjamin Franklin]
There ought to be a better way to start the day than by getting up in the morning. [Anonymous]
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. [Voltaire]
A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. [Elbert Hubbard]
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. [Charles C. Colton]
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. [Napoleon Bonaparte]
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. [Arthur Schopenhauer]
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. [Noel Coward]
There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over. [Anonymous]
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. [Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton]
Tact: The ability to describe others as they see themselves. [Anonymous]
My advice to you concerning applause is this: Enjoy it but never quite believe it. [Montgomery]
To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness. [Dutch Proverb]
When you cannot get a thing, then it is time to have contempt for it. [B. Gracian]
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. [Buddha]
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. [Charles C. Colton]
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. [H. W. Shaw]
What a pity it is that nobody knows how to manage a wife but a bachelor. [G. Colman]
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. [Ben Jonson]
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. [R. Steele]
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. [Robert G. Ingersoll]
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. [William Congreve]
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. [Epictetus]
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. [Hemant Joshi]
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. [Miguel De Cervantes]
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. [Grahm Greene, from The Power and the Glory]
Revenge is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. [Jeremy Taylor]
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed to have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. [Nagarjuna]
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. [Chesterfield]
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. [Niccolo Machiavelli]
Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. [R. F. Kennedy]
If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door. [Fr. Adams]
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. [Frank Lloyd Wright]
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. [Buddha]
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. [Mark Twain]
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastry demands all of a person. [Albert Einstein]
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power. [Jeremy Taylor]
One of the most difficult tasks in this world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. [E. W. Howe]
That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much. [Nietzsche]
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. [H. W. Beecher]
Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice. [Henry Ford]
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. [Wilson Mizner]
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. [Henry Ford]
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. [Carl Jung]
I am not arguing with you; I am telling you. [J. Whistler]
Love your neighbor, but don't pull down your hedge. [Benjamin Franklin]
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. [Anonymous]
What's apathy? I don't know, and I don't care. [Anonymous]
I'm trying to be an optimist, but I don't think it'll work. [Raymond Bond]
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. [Robert Owen]
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow. [Mark Twain]
Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. [Goethe]
If you are dealing with a fool, dictate, but never argue, for you will lose your labor and perhaps your temper. [O. W. Holmes]
When a neighbor is in your fruit garden, inattention is the truest politeness. [Chinese Proverb]
When two men in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. [W. Wrigley]
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. [Seneca]
If you don't take care of your customer, someone else will. [Roger Pallant]
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. [Alfred A. Montapert]
Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them. [Anonymous]
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. [Anonymous]
Better a bald head than none at all. [A. O'Malley]
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. [Henry David Thoreau]
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. [Austin O'Malley]
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. [Benjamin Franklin]
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. [Carl Sandburg]
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. [Cervantes]
No man's credit is as good as his money. [Edgar Watson Howe]
It is impossible to love and to be wise. [Francis Bacon]
He who can does. He who can't, teaches. [George Bernard Shaw]
A friend is a gift you give to yourself. [Robert Luois Stevenson]
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. [Sophocles]
Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within to get out. [C. Quintard]
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward. [Thomas Fuller]
First you have to teach a child to talk; then you have to teach it to keep quiet. [H. Prochnow]
Why should we do anything for Posterity? What's he ever done for us? [Anonymous]
How can I miss you if you don't go away? [Youri Kravatsky]
The greatest truths are the simplest. [A. W. Hare]
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. [Duke of Windsor]
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. [Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe]
Originality is undetected plagiarism. [Dean Inge]
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. [Nagarjuna]
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. [Mark Twain]
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing. [Wernher von Braun]
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. [Alexander Smith]
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind. [Benjamin Disraeli]
Buy land - they've stopped making it. [Mark Twain]
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. [Nagarjuna]
Nobody's ever insulted to be invited. [Mrs. Leonard Lyons]
The best way to get praise is to die. [Proverb]
To fill the hour - that is happiness. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. [Sophocles]
Apathy: never mind over don't matter. [Anonymous]
No one ever sat their way to success. [Anonymous]
Character is what you are in the dark. [D. L. Moody]
A lie never lives to be old. [Sophocles]
Logic is the anatomy of thought. [Locke]
Fortune and love favor the brave. [Ovid]
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. [Niels Bohr]
A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't. [Irvin Cobb]
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. [J. Von-Goethe]
The most dangerous man is the man with a purpose or cause, who can not be altered from his goal. [Anonymous]
He who finds no fault in himself needs a second opinion. [Anonymous]
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. [Disraeli]
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. [Alexis Carrel]
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. [Zoroaster]
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. [H.G. Wells]
Give me a fish and I will eat today. Teach me to fish and I will eat for a lifetime. [Chinese Proverb]
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. [William Arthur Ward]
Friends are thieves of time. [Francis Bacon]
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. [Goethe]
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. [Alexis Carrel]
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. [Lord Chesterfield]
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. [Confucius]
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. [Publius Cornelius Tacitus]
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. [Oscar Wilde]
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. [Oscar Wilde]
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. [Anonymous]
When in doubt, tell the truth. [Mark Twain]
Prejudice is the reason of fools. [Voltaire]
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. [Bern Williams]
Great opportunities come to those who make the most of the small ones. [Anonymous]
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. [Socrates]
Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. [John Quincy Adams]
An honest man is always a child. [Martial]
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. [da Vinci]
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. [Elbert Hubbard]
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. [Plato]
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. [Henry David Thoreau]
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. [Mark Twain]
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. [C. Steinmetz]
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it for himself. [Galileo Galilei]
We must believe in luck, for how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? [Anonymous]
There's only one thing worse than the man who will argue over anything, and that's the man who will argue over nothing. [Daren Niedermeier]
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. [Aesop]
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. [Jim Rohn]
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. [John Lubbock]
Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater. [Gail Godwin]
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. [George Bernard Shaw]
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. [Elbert Hubbard]
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. [Franτois La Rochefoucauld]
Better hazard once than always be in fear. [Thomas Fuller]
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. [Frank Lloyd Wright]
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. [John Bunyan]
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. [Benjamin Franklin]
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. [Thomas Fuller]
It is a shame to assume that all fools are old fools. I've found that there are more young fools than old fools. Nature has a way of getting rid of old fools. [Sam Ervin]
What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. [Anonymous]
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. [George Wilhelm F. Hegel]
You teach best what you most need to learn. [Richard Bach]
A dream is a question we haven't yet learned to ask. [Wayne Clark]
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? [Lord Byron]
Hatred is blind, as well as love. [Thomas Fuller, M.D.]
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. [S. Johnson]
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. [Abraham Lincoln]
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. [B. Pascal]
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. [H. Mencken]
A politician is a man who stands for what he thinks the voters will fall for. [Anonymous]
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. [Confucius]
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. [John Ruskin]
No one ever hurt their eyes by looking at the bright side of life. [Anonymous]
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. [Thomas Fuller]
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. [Saskya Pandita]
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. [Pete Seeger]
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. [Ann Landers]
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. [Anonymous]
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. [Kolby]
Man has his will, - but woman has her way. [Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. [John Dryden]
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. [H. Haskins]
One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us. [Virgil A. Kraft]
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. [Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943]
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. [Anonymous]
When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference. [Va. Graham]
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. [Rollo May]
I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. [Daniel Boone]
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all. [Walter Raleigh]
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. [Henry Ward Beecher]
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. [Anonymous]
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." [Soren Kierkegaard]
Innocence is always unsuspicious. [Haliburton]
A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. [Anonymous]
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. [Lord Chesterfield]
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. [Leo Tolstoy]
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. [Plutarch]
They say hard work never hurt anybody, but why take the chance. [Anonymous]
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. [Martin Luther King, Jr.]
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. [Oscar Wilde]
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Jean La Fontaine]
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. [Henry Ward Beecher]
It is a wise father that knows his own child. [William Shakespeare]
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. [Spanish Proverb]
From covetousness anger proceeds; from covetousness lust is born; from covetousness come delusion and perdition. Covetousness is the cause of sin. [The Hitopadesa]
To define is to kill, to suggest is to create. [Wayne Clark]
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. [Henry David Thoreau]
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. [Charles Brower]
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. [Robert Half]
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. [R. Sheridan]
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. [H. Belloc]
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. [Christian Nestell Bovee]
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. [James L. Allen]
As long as you can still be disappointed you are still young. [Anonymous]
Sleep, riches, and health, to be enjoyed, must be interrupted. [Jean Paul Richter]
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. [Martin Luther King, Jr.]
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. [Horace]
Leadership is great because I make the decision and others do the job. [C. C. Keng]
A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character. How he makes it and how he spends it. [James Moffatt]
Growing old isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. [M. Chevalier]
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. [H. Becque]
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier. [Baltasar Gracian]
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one one extrordinary man. [Elbert Hubbard]
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. [Mark Twain]
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. [James Oppenheim]
The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has a limit. If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards. [Anonymous]
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. [Hare & Charles]
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. [Jean Rostand]
God gives the birds their food, but He does not throw it into their nests. [Proverb]
Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. [Benjamin Franklin]
All the great men are dead . . . and I don't feel so well myself. [Joel W. Beetsch]
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. [Anonymous]
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away. [R. Hutchins]
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. [Voltaire]
Where there's a will there are five hundred relatives. [Anonymous]
If you are bashful, you'll have no children. [Proverb]
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. [J. Collins]
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. [George Santayana]
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. [Heinrich Heine]
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. [Winston Churchill]
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. [N. Butler]
The two hardest things in life to handle are success and failure. [Rorinator]
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. [Kahlil Gibran]
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it is usually returned. [C. R. Flint]
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. [G. B. Shaw]
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. [Will Rogers]
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. [Erica Jong]
Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. [H. Longfellow]
Do not put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today. [J. Billings]
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. [William Temple]
Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love. [Benjamin Franklin]
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. [Martial]
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. [Steven Covey]
Before going to war say a prayer; before going to sea say two prayers; before marrying say three prayers. [Proverb]
I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. [Marshal Foch]
Half of the little education people have is usually wrong. [E. W. Howe]
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. [William Shakespeare]
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. [Calvin Coolidge]
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. [John Stuart Mill]
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. [Henry David Thoreau]
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. [Benjamin Disraeli]
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. [R. Lynes]
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. [Mark Twain]
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. [Anonymous]
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. [Ralph Nader]
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted. [Alfred A. Montapert]
The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the oil. Sometimes it gets replaced. [Anonymous]
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. [Whately]
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. [Orison S. Marden]
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. [Martin Luther King Jr.]
Be watchful of all your actions, because somewhere there is always someone who knows what you have done. [Daren Niedermeier]
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. [Mark Twain]
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. [Charles C. Colton]
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. [Josh Billings]
