Quotes

[kbluejayk]

He is happiest to be king or peasant, who finds peace at home.

- Goethe

 

[kbluejayk]

He who understands others is learned.
He who knows himself is wise.
He who conquers others
has muscular strength.
He who subdues himself is strong.
He who is content is wealthy.
He who does not lose his soul
Will endure.

- Lao Tse

 

[kbluejayk]

Life is hard by the yard.
By the inch it's a cinch.

- Author Unknown.

 

[lasslicker]

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michael de Montaigne

 

[lasslicker]

Even if you're on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogeers

 

[lasslicker]

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

 

[lasslicker]

Talent is god-given. Be humble.
Fame is man-given. Be grateful.
Conceit is self-given. Be carefull.

John Wooden

 

[lasslicker]

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Robert Frost (1935)

 

[lasslicker]

It has been said that man is a rational animal. I have been searching all my life for evidence which will support this.

Bertrand Russell

 

[lasslicker]

'My country right or wrong', is like saying: 'My mother drunk or sober'

G. K. Chesterson

 

[lasslicker]

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertold Brecht

 

[lasslicker]

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for psychanalysis.

Marlon Brando

 

[lasslicker]

I was the Brando of my generation.

Bette Davis

 

[kbluejayk]

Joe, never feel guilty about having warm human feelings toward anyone.

-Ben Cartwright (Bonanza)

 

[kbluejayk]

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

-Socrates

 

[kbluejayk]

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

-William Saroyan

 

[kbluejayk]

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.


Lord Chesterfield.

 

[kbluejayk]

See golden days,
fruitful of golden deeds,
With Joy and Love
triumphing.

- John Milton

 

[healer677]

Goverment of the people, by the people, for the people, usually ends up as goverment of the people, by the goverment, for the goverment.

 

[lasslicker]

The more I know about men, the more I like dogs.

Gloria Allread