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| There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in. -- Will Rogers |
| Author: Rogers, WillEra: 1879 |
| I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author: Chesterfield, LordEra: 1694 |
| man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author: Carlyle, ThomasEra: 1795 |
| There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| Author: Aldrich, Thomas B.Era: 1836 |
| A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. -- Alexandre (père) Dumas |
| Author: Dumas, Alexandre (père)Era: 1802 |
| Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author: Colton, Charles C.Era: 1780 |
| A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven. -- Thomas Moore |
| Author: Moore, ThomasEra: 1779 |
| But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author: Pope, AlexanderEra: 1688 |
| When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. -- Edgar Watson Howe |
| Author: Howe, Edgar WatsonEra: 1853 |
| As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. -- Socrates |
| Author: SocratesEra: -469 |
| A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. -- manly P. Hall |
| Author: Hall, Manly P.Era: 1901 |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle |
| Author: AristotleEra: -384 |
| I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author: Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra: 1803 |
| Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. -- Horace |
| Author: HoraceEra: -65 |
| An honest man is always a child. -- Martial |
| Author: MartialEra: 43 |
| Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author: Franklin, BenjaminEra: 1706 |
| To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity. -- Bolingbroke |
| Author: BolingbrokeEra: 1678 |
| When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author: Blavatsky, H. P.Era: 1831 |
| I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. -- Martial |
| Author: MartialEra: 43 |
| The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. -- Cicero |
| Author: CiceroEra: -106 |
| If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. -- Elbert Hubbard |
| Author: Hubbard, ElbertEra: 1856 |
| Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. -- John Milton |
| Author: Milton, JohnEra: 1608 |
| Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. -- W. Averell Harriman |
| Author: Harriman, AverellEra: 1891 |
| Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. -- John Milton |
| Author: Milton, JohnEra: 1608 |
| Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author: Proverb, ChineseEra: 0 |
| many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's. -- Richard Whately |
| Author: Whately, RichardEra: 1787 |
| Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -- William Shakespeare, As You Like It |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. -- Voltaire |
| Author: VoltaireEra: 1694 |
| 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 |
| Author: Brower, CharlesEra: 1901 |
| 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 |
| Author: Heine, HeinrichEra: 1797 |
| Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. -- John Denham |
| Author: Denham, JohnEra: 1615 |
| A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| "Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow. -- John Gay |
| Author: Gay, JohnEra: 1685 |
| If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. -- Christian Nestell Bovee |
| Author: Bovee, Christian NestellEra: 1820 |
| The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. -- Thomas Moore |
| Author: Moore, ThomasEra: 1779 |
| How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! -- Robert Browning |
| Author: Browning, RobertEra: 1812 |
| If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. -- Wilson Mizner |
| Author: Mizner, WilsonEra: 1876 |
| The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. -- The Hitopadesa |
| Author: Hitopadesa, TheEra: 600 |
| I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. -- Bernard mannes Baruch |
| Author: Baruch, Bernard MannesEra: 1870 |
| Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. -- Archibald Macleish |
| Author: Macleish, ArchibaldEra: 1892 |
| The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. -- John Keats |
| Author: Keats, JohnEra: 1795 |
| In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author: Jefferson, ThomasEra: 1743 |
| 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 |
| Author: Taylor, JeremyEra: 1613 |
| The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. -- I Ching |
| Author: Ching, IEra: -1150 |
| And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. -- William S. Gilbert |
| Author: Gilbert, William S.Era: 1540 |
| 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 |
| Author: Ingersoll, Robert G.Era: 1833 |
| My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. -- George Washington |
| Author: Washington, GeorgeEra: 1732 |
| Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. man is not a finished creation. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. -- Euripides |
| Author: EuripidesEra: -480 |
| The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god. -- Kabbalah |
| Author: KabbalahEra: -1200 |
| Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. -- Immanuel Kant |
| Author: Kant, ImmanuelEra: 1724 |
| To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author: Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra: 1809 |
| Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. -- Robert Southey |
| Author: Southey, RobertEra: 1774 |
| No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author: Colton, Charles C.Era: 1780 |
| Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. -- Abraham Cowley |
| Author: Cowley, AbrahamEra: 1618 |
| The first years of man make provision for the last. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. -- Cicero |
| Author: CiceroEra: -106 |
| The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. -- I Ching |
| Author: Ching, IEra: -1150 |
| Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author: Franklin, BenjaminEra: 1706 |
| When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position. -- I Ching |
| Author: Ching, IEra: -1150 |
| The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. -- Horace |
| Author: HoraceEra: -65 |
| A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. -- Edgar Watson Howe |
| Author: Howe, Edgar WatsonEra: 1853 |
| A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -- Confucius |
| Author: ConfuciusEra: -551 |
| The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Author: Hawthorne, NathanielEra: 1804 |
| We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. -- Charles Darwin |
| Author: Darwin, CharlesEra: 1809 |
| The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author: Bacon, FrancisEra: 1561 |
| Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. -- William Shakespeare, As You Like It |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| No man's credit is as good as his money. -- Edgar Watson Howe |
| Author: Howe, Edgar WatsonEra: 1853 |
| Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. -- Victor Hugo |
| Author: Hugo, VictorEra: 1802 |
| The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author: Aurelius, MarcusEra: 121 |
| The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. -- Hesiod |
| Author: HesiodEra: -700 |
| One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature. -- Nathan |
| Author: NathanEra: 200 |
| A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. -- Plutarch |
| Author: PlutarchEra: 46 |
| Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. -- Kabbalah |
| Author: KabbalahEra: -1200 |
| Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author: Bacon, FrancisEra: 1561 |
| The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world...To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. -- John Ruskin |
| Author: Ruskin, JohnEra: 1819 |
| There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. -- Menander |
| Author: MenanderEra: -342 |
| Reasoning at every step he treads, man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. -- William Cowper |
| Author: Cowper, WilliamEra: 1731 |
| Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author: Bierce, AmbroseEra: 1842 |
| There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. -- Baltasar Gracian |
| Author: Gracian, BaltasarEra: 1601 |
| One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. -- Pierre Reverdy |
| Author: Reverdy, PierreEra: 1889 |
| A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. -- Anacharsis |
| Author: AnacharsisEra: -600 |
| Every soul is subject to the trial of Transmigration...An individual does not know that he is called for assessment before entering this World as well as after leaving it. He does not know how many transformations and esoteric trials he has to pass through...and that souls revolve like a stone shot from a sling. -- Zohar |
| Author: ZoharEra: 120 |
| No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. -- John Ernest Steinbeck |
| Author: Steinbeck, JohnEra: 1902 |
| Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. -- Zoroaster |
| Author: ZoroasterEra: -628 |
| man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. -- William Temple |
| Author: Temple, WilliamEra: 1628 |
| Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving |
| Author: Irving, WashingtonEra: 1783 |
| No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. -- Theodore Roosevelt |
| Author: Roosevelt, TheodoreEra: 1858 |
| All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way. -- Frederick II |
| Author: Frederick IIEra: 1712 |
| Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. -- Colley Cibber |
| Author: Cibber, ColleyEra: 1671 |
| A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author: Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra: 1809 |
| The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. -- Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Author: Sartre, Jean-PaulEra: 1905 |
| A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk. -- Harry F. Banks |
| Author: Banks, Harry F.Era: 1950 |
| A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. -- John Henry Newman |
| Author: Newman, John HenryEra: 1801 |
| In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author: Heine, HeinrichEra: 1797 |
| Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author: Carlyle, ThomasEra: 1795 |
| How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| Author: Holmes Jr., Oliver WendellEra: 1841 |
| Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. -- James Harrington |
| Author: Harrington, JamesEra: 1611 |
| For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow. -- Edmund Spenser |
| Author: Spenser, EdmundEra: 1552 |
| A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane |
| Author: Crane, StephenEra: 1871 |
| Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters. -- Ogden Nash |
| Author: Nash, OgdenEra: 1902 |
| Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. -- Owen Feltham |
| Author: Feltham, OwenEra: 1602 |
| many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee |
| Author: Bovee, Christian NestellEra: 1820 |
| An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. -- Saskya Pandita |
| Author: Pandita, SaskyaEra: 1182 |
| To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. -- Stendhal |
| Author: StendhalEra: 1783 |
| The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author: Divine Pymander, TheEra: -2500 |
| If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." -- Learned Hand |
| Author: Hand, LearnedEra: 1872 |
| Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- Henry Louis Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -- Oliver Cromwell |
| Author: Cromwell, OliverEra: 1599 |
| The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. -- James Thomson |
| Author: Thomson, JamesEra: 1700 |
| 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 |
| Author: Swift, JonathanEra: 1667 |
| Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. -- George Santayana |
| Author: Santayana, GeorgeEra: 1863 |
| Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author: Beecher, Henry WardEra: 1813 |
| Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness. -- Hung Tzu-ch'eng |
| Author: Tzu-ch'eng, HungEra: 1593 |
| Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D. |
| Author: Fuller, ThomasEra: 1654 |
| 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 |
| Author: Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra: 1803 |
| Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. -- Pericles |
| Author: PericlesEra: -495 |
| I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. -- Wellington |
| Author: WellingtonEra: 1769 |
| Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. -- Mencius |
| Author: MenciusEra: -371 |
| Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author: Webster, DanielEra: 1782 |
| The best man in his dwelling loves the earth. In his heart, he loves what is profound. In his associations, he loves humanity. In his words, he loves faithfulness. In government, he loves order. In handling affairs, he loves competence. In his activities, he loves timeliness. It is because he does not compete that he is without reproach. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author: Lao-TzuEra: -604 |
| I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
| mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author: Proverb, ChineseEra: 0 |
| A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D. |
| Author: Fuller, ThomasEra: 1654 |
| All human joys are swift of wing, for heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it. -- Eugene Field |
| Author: Field, EugeneEra: 1850 |
| A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. -- Joseph Addison |
| Author: Addison, JosephEra: 1672 |
| Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author: Bacon, FrancisEra: 1561 |
| The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author: Beecher, Henry WardEra: 1813 |
| The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and "consciousness" cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and "will" cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen." -- Gurdjieff |
| Author: GurdjieffEra: 1873 |
| In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. -- Douglas MacArthur |
| Author: MacArthur, DouglasEra: 1880 |
| The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Pythagoras |
| Author: PythagorasEra: -582 |
| How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The great part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author: Joubert, JosephEra: 1754 |
| People demand freedom only when they have no power. -- Friedrich W. Nietzsche |
| Author: Nietzsche, FriedrichEra: 1844 |
| All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release...Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body. -- Zohar |
| Author: ZoharEra: 120 |
| I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author: Divine Pymander, TheEra: -2500 |
| man has his will, - but woman has her way. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author: Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra: 1809 |
| many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author: Colton, Charles C.Era: 1780 |
| Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| The study of oneself must go side by side with the study of the fundamental laws of the universe. The laws are the same everywhere and on all planes. But the very same laws manifesting themselves in different worlds, that is, under different conditions, produce different phenomena. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author: GurdjieffEra: 1873 |
| man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. -- Job |
| Author: JobEra: -400 |
| A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet. -- Joseph Hall |
| Author: Hall, JosephEra: 1574 |
| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot |
| Author: Eliot, GeorgeEra: 1819 |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author: Butler, SamuelEra: 1835 |
| It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author: Bacon, FrancisEra: 1561 |
| How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. -- Walter Scott |
| Author: Scott, Sir WalterEra: 1771 |
| Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. -- H. G. Wells |
| Author: Wells, H. G.Era: 1866 |
| Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. -- Grenville Kleiser |
| Author: Kleiser, GrenvilleEra: 1868 |
| man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author: GurdjieffEra: 1873 |
| 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 |
| Author: Jonson, BenEra: 1572 |
| A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. -- Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Author: Rilke, Rainer MariaEra: 1875 |
| But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. -- George Colman |
| Author: Colman, GeorgeEra: 1762 |
| An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author: Gita, BhagavadEra: -400 |
| Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. -- Hubert Humphrey |
| Author: Humphrey, HubertEra: 1911 |
| We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. -- manilius |
| Author: ManiliusEra: 100 |
| For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden |
| Author: Dryden, JohnEra: 1631 |
| man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords. -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Author: Stevenson, Robert LewisEra: 1850 |
| When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| 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 |
| Author: Laertius, DiogenesEra: -150 |
| manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. -- Walter Lippmann |
| Author: Lippmann, WalterEra: 1889 |
| Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. -- Tupper |
| Author: TupperEra: 1810 |
| A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. -- Confucius |
| Author: ConfuciusEra: -551 |
| man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author: Tennyson, Alfred LordEra: 1809 |
| 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 |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. -- Cato the Elder |
| Author: Cato the ElderEra: -234 |
| Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author: Bacon, FrancisEra: 1561 |
| It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. -- Horace mann |
| Author: Mann, HoraceEra: 1796 |
| A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author: Proverb, ChineseEra: 0 |
| Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man... -- The Dhammapada |
| Author: Dhammapada, TheEra: -300 |
| Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author: Aurelius, MarcusEra: 121 |
| The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet. -- Rudyard Kipling |
| Author: Kipling, RudyardEra: 1865 |
| The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. -- D. H. Lawrence |
| Author: Lawrence, D. H.Era: 1885 |
| You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. -- Ramakrishna |
| Author: RamakrishnaEra: 1836 |
| A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. -- Sir Winston Churchill |
| Author: Churchill, WinstonEra: 1874 |
| A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. -- Jean De La Bruyere |
| Author: La Bruyere, JeanEra: 1645 |
| The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author: Shaw, George BernardEra: 1856 |
| The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.-- Henry David Thoreau |
| Author: Thoreau, Henry DavidEra: 1817 |
| Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. -- Victor Hugo |
| Author: Hugo, VictorEra: 1802 |
| Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author: Carlyle, ThomasEra: 1795 |
| O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! -- Sir Walter Scott |
| Author: Scott, Sir WalterEra: 1771 |
| The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. -- Bernard mannes Baruch |
| Author: Baruch, Bernard MannesEra: 1870 |
| A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. -- Chuang-tzu |
| Author: Chuang-tzuEra: -350 |
| I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. -- Euripides |
| Author: EuripidesEra: -480 |
| This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. -- William Jennings Bryan |
| Author: Bryan, William J.Era: 1860 |
| The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. -- Edmund Burke |
| Author: Burke, EdmundEra: 1729 |
| The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean. -- Saskya Pandita |
| Author: Pandita, SaskyaEra: 1182 |
| Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us? -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| Sadness is not an evil. Complain not; what seem to be sufferings and obstacles are often in reality the mysterious efforts of nature to help you in your work if you can manage them properly. Look upon all circumstances with the gratitude of a pupil. All complaint is a rebellion against the law of progress. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author: Blavatsky, H. P.Era: 1831 |
| Every man of courage is a man of his word. -- Pierre Corneille |
| Author: Corneille, PierreEra: 1606 |
| The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. He does not think beforehand that his words shall be sincere, nor that his acts shall be resolute; he simply abides in the right. -- Mencius |
| Author: MenciusEra: -371 |
| I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. -- William Cowper |
| Author: Cowper, WilliamEra: 1731 |
| Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe. -- Zohar |
| Author: ZoharEra: 120 |
| A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle. -- Edna Ferber |
| Author: Ferber, EdnaEra: 1887 |
| 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 |
| Author: Babson, RogerEra: 1875 |
| The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author: Shaw, George BernardEra: 1856 |
| Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. -- Thomas Alva Edison |
| Author: Edison, Thomas A.Era: 1847 |
| Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. -- Jawaharial Nehru |
| Author: Nehru, JawaharialEra: 1889 |
| A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. -- Aesop |
| Author: AesopEra: -550 |
| The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. -- A. E. Housman |
| Author: Housman, A. E.Era: 1859 |
| One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. -- Milton Friedman |
| Author: Friedman, MiltonEra: 1912 |
| Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. -- Philip D. Stanhope |
| Author: Stanhope, Philip D.Era: 1584 |
| many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. -- Ovid |
| Author: OvidEra: -43 |
| No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock |
| Author: Leacock, Stephen B.Era: 1869 |
| The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author: Shaw, George BernardEra: 1856 |
| Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. -- Horace mann |
| Author: Mann, HoraceEra: 1796 |
| man can be scientifically manipulated. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author: Russell, BertrandEra: 1872 |
| If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author: Proverb, ChineseEra: 0 |
| In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything. -- Shaftesbury III |
| Author: Shaftesbury IIIEra: 1671 |
| The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb. -- Russell Baker |
| Author: Baker, RussellEra: 1925 |
| man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author: Russell, BertrandEra: 1872 |
| Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. -- Confucius |
| Author: ConfuciusEra: -551 |
| The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life...Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author: Divine Pymander, TheEra: -2500 |
| Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. -- Ovid |
| Author: OvidEra: -43 |
| The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author: Lao-TzuEra: -604 |
| If my theory of relativty is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. -- Albert Einstein |
| Author: Einstein, AlbertEra: 1879 |
| One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author: GurdjieffEra: 1873 |
| The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. -- William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. -- Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. |
| Author: Holmes Jr., Oliver WendellEra: 1841 |
| There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. -- Plautus |
| Author: Plautus, Titus MacciusEra: -254 |
| Everything comes if a man will only wait. -- Tancred |
| Author: TancredEra: 1076 |
| That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. -- Neil A. Armstrong |
| Author: Armstrong, NeilEra: 1930 |
| man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -- Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Author: Sartre, Jean-PaulEra: 1905 |
| If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? -- Thomas H. Huxley |
| Author: Huxley, Thomas H.Era: 1825 |
| Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Kin Hubbard |
| Author: Hubbard, KinEra: 1868 |
| What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? -- Norman Douglas |
| Author: Douglas, NormanEra: 1886 |
| Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. -- Charles De Gaulle |
| Author: De Gaulle, CharlesEra: 1890 |
| What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed? -- Horace |
| Author: HoraceEra: -65 |
| If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. -- Immanuel Kant |
| Author: Kant, ImmanuelEra: 1724 |
| All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -- Plato |
| Author: PlatoEra: -427 |
| man cannot live without self-control. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Author: Singer, Isaac B.Era: 1904 |
| Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author: Bierce, AmbroseEra: 1842 |
| Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. -- Charles Lamb |
| Author: Lamb, CharlesEra: 1775 |
| Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. -- John Henry Newman |
| Author: Newman, John HenryEra: 1801 |
| As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. -- Charles Caleb Colton |
| Author: Colton, Charles C.Era: 1780 |
| The worst of a modern stylish mansion is, that it has no place for ghosts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author: Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra: 1809 |
| Of manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author: Pope, AlexanderEra: 1688 |
| To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. -- Jonathan Swift |
| Author: Swift, JonathanEra: 1667 |
| If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. -- William Makepeace Thakeray |
| Author: Thackeray, William M.Era: 1811 |
| I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. -- John Ruskin |
| Author: Ruskin, JohnEra: 1819 |
| The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. -- Plato |
| Author: PlatoEra: -427 |
| To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. -- Joseph Addison |
| Author: Addison, JosephEra: 1672 |
| If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Broun |
| Author: Broun, HeywoodEra: 1888 |
| This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. -- Robert Herrick |
| Author: Herrick, RobertEra: 1591 |
| The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author: Carlyle, ThomasEra: 1795 |
| No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. -- Christopher Morley |
| Author: Morley, ChristopherEra: 1890 |
| Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| 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 |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author: Shaw, George BernardEra: 1856 |
| Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. -- Abraham Cowley |
| Author: Cowley, AbrahamEra: 1618 |
| Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author: Webster, DanielEra: 1782 |
| The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. -- Aldous Huxley |
| Author: Huxley, AldousEra: 1894 |
| The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. -- Horace Greeley |
| Author: Greeley, HoraceEra: 1811 |
| Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author: Gita, BhagavadEra: -400 |
| Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author: Dhammapada, TheEra: -300 |
| Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
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