July 2011
84 posts
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going...
– Andre Gide
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
– Mark Twain
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
– Immanuel Kant
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the...
– Unknown
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
– Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Hardness shatters; strength endures.
– Robert Jordan
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
– Michel de Montaigne
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
– Democritus
Never judge a book by its movie.
– J. W. Eagan
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
– Leonardo da Vinci
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and...
– Bertrand Russell
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been...
– Russell Baker
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have...
– Groucho Marx
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
– Stanislaw J. Lec
Whenever you fall, pick up something.
– Oswald Theodore Avery
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all...
– Abraham Lincoln
I am a part of all I have seen.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save...
– The Talmud
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.
– A. S. Neill
He who refuses to obey cannot command.
– Kenyan Proverb
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything...
– Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
– Oscar Wilde
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he...
– Florence Scovel Shinn
Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
– Unknown
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his...
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around...
– Michael Cibenko
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for...
– Anne Bronte
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
– Mary Wilson Little
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
– Elias Schwartz
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
– John F. Kennedy
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he...
– G. K. Chesterton
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all...
– Eugene Edwards