Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Humor is also a way of saying something serious. T. S.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. Ernesto "Che
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
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Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
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The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual; the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
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Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
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