Quotes to inspire and reflect

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

As they use to say, spick and span new. Miguel de Cervantes A closed mouth catches no flies.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

I must follow him through thick and thin.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.

It is good to live and learn.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

I think it a very happy accident.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Failure is instructive. The person who thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

We must believe in luck.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning around and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Each man is led by his own liking.

Death's brother, Sleep.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.

Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also Fortune favors the bold.

The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Lat., Now I know what love is.

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones.

The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.