"Three may keep a secret,
if two of them are dead."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790);
US author, inventor, physicist & politician.
"I shall th'effect of this good lesson
keep As watchman to my heart."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
English dramatist.
"Common sense is an instinct for the
truth."
Max Jacobs (1876-1944);
French writer.
"It's an old adage that the way to be
safe is never to be secure.
Each one of us requires the spur of
insecurity to force us to do our best."
Harold Willis Dodds (1889-1980);
American educator.
"To strive with difficulties,
and to conquer them,
is the highest human felicity."
Samuel Johnson (1709-84);
English author.
"The truth is more important
than the facts."
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959);
US architect.
"Ask a question and you are a fool
for one minute.
Don't ask a question and you are a fool forever."
Chinese Proverb.
"An investment in knowledge pays
the best interest".
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790);
US statesman, inventor.
"Nature has given us the seeds
of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD);
Roman philospher.
"Everyone pushes a falling fence."
Chinese Proverb.
"That which is not good for the beehive
cannot be good for the bees."
Marcus Aurelius (121-80BC);
Roman emperor, philosopher.
"Once the game is over,
the king and
the pawn return to the same box."
Italian proverb.
"To keep your secret is wisdom;
but to expect others to keep it is folly."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784);
English writer.
"Military power wins battles,
but spiritual power wins wars."
George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959);
American military leader.
"Truth does not do so much good in the world,
as the appearance of it does evil."
François de la Rochefoucauld
(1613-1680); French writer.
"Solitude is fine, but you need
someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850);
French writer.
"I can believe the impossible, but not
the improbable."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936); English writer.
"Little things console us because
little things afflict us."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician.
"The greatness of a nation can be judged
by the way its animals are treated."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Indian philosopher and politician.
"Your neighbor's vision is as true
for him as your own vision is true
for you."
Miguel de Unamuno (1864 - 1936)
Spanish, philosopher, author.
"Women: Can't live with them,
can't bury them in the backyard
without the neighbours seeing."
Sean Williamson
"If women didn't exist, all the money
in the world would have no meaning."
Aristotle Onassis
"When you've told someone that
you've left them a legacy the only
decent thing to do is to die at once."
Samuel Butler
"Whoever said money can't buy
happiness simply didn't know
where to go shopping."
Bo Derek
"Men are superior to women. For one
thing, men can urinate from a
speeding car."
Will Durst
"What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle (384 B.C.-322 B.C.);
Greek philosopher
"The best fire does not
flare up the soonest."
George Eliot (1819-1880);
Englist novelist.
"Most powerful is he who has
himself in his own power".
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2 BC-65AD)
Roman philospher.
"There is always one moment in
childhood when the door opens
and lets the future in."
Graham Greene (1904-1991);
English novelist.
"Change is the only constant."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860);
German philosopher.
"I am not discouraged,
because every wrong attempt discarded
is another step forward."
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931);
US physicist and inventor.
"For it is far better to know something
about everything than to know all
about one thing.
This universality is the best."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662);
French scientist and philosopher.
"Success in the majority of circumstances
depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
C. L. de Secondat Montesquieu
(1689-1755);
French writer and philosopher.
"Knowledge is true opinion."
Plato (428 - 347 BC);
Greek philosopher.
"To be ready is important,
to know to wait is even more important,
but to use the opportunity is the key to life."
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931);
Austrian playwright.
"Experience is not
what happens to you.
It is what you do
with what happens to you."
Aldous Huxley (1891-1963);
British author.
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"The cause is hidden.
The effect is visible to all."
Ovid (43BC-17AD);
Roman poet.
"Mistakes are a fact of life
It is the response to error that counts."
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943); US poetess.
"Good, the more communicated,
more abundant grows."
John Milton (1608-74);
English poet.
"A resolution to avoid an evil
is seldom framed till
the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928);
English novelist, poet.
"In the case of news, we should always
wait
for the sacrament of confirmation."
Voltaire (1694-1778); French philosopher.
"Give me a place to stand and I will
move the earth."
Archimedes (285-212 a. C.); Greek inventor & mathematician.
"Patience is bitter, but the fruit is
sweet."
French proverb.
"The one duty we owe to history is to
rewrite it."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Anglo-Irish playwright.
"Time will bring to light whatever is
hidden;
it will cover up and conceal
what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.
"The disadvantage of men not knowing
the past
is that they do not know the present."
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936); British author.
"Work is not man's punishment! It is his
reward and his strength,
his glory and his pleasure."
George Sand (1804-1876); French writer.
"It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862);
US essayist, poet and philosopher.
"Time is the substance I am made of."
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986); Argentine poet.
"The least initial deviation from the
truth
is multiplied later a thousandfold."
Aristotle (384-322 BC); Greek philosopher.
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind,
you should not blame the wind for revealing
them to the trees."
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931);
Libanese philosopher, writer and poet.
"Fate shuffles the cards and we play."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860);
German Philosopher.
"It is not enough to have wisdom,
you need to know how to use it."
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 AC-43 B.C.);
Roman Statesman and author.
"In practice, only what can be solved
through intelligence is a problem."
Hermann Keyserling;(1880-1946);
German phylosopher.
"We cannot cross the sea merely
by staring
at the water."
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941);
Indian poet, writer, philosopher.
"The big difference between sex for money
and
sex for free is that sex for money costs less."
Brendan Francis
"Reality is an illusion created by a
lack of alcohol."
NF Simpson
"My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man
to my bedroom,
put a gun to his head and say, Make babies or die."
Ruby Wax
"When I told my friends I was going to
be a comedian,
they laughed at me."
Carrot Top
"The quickest way to a man's heart is
through his chest."
Roseanne Barr
"Where would man be today if it wasn't
for women? In the Garden of Eden eating water melon and taking
it easy."
C Kennedy
"We all wish to reach a ripe old age,
but none of us
are prepared to admit that we are already there."
Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645); Spanish writer.
"You are sure to get anywhere,
if you only walk long enough."
Lewis Carrol (1832-1898); English author.
"An experience is never a failure because
it always serves to show something".
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931); US physicist and inventor.
"Never shall I forget the time I spent
with you. Please continue to be my friend,
as you will always find me yours."
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827); German composer.
"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake,
but old and new wisdom mix admirably."
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956); German dramatist, poet.
"There is no better mirror to reflect man's image than his words."
Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540); Spanish philosopher.
"It is better to sleep on things beforehand
than lie awake about them afterwards."
Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658); Spanish writer.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd."
Voltaire (1694-1778);
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist.
"Education is the best provision
for the journey to old age."
Aristotle (384-322BC);
Greek philosopher.
"There is a history in all men's lives."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
English dramatist and poet.
"Each problem that I solved became a rule,
which served afterwards to solve other problems."
R. Descartes (1596-1650); French philosopher,
scientist and mathematician.
"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself,
and yearns for the impossible."
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983); US writer and philosopher.
"Distances were longer in the past
because space is measured according to time."
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986);
Argentinian author.
"Genius without education is
like silver in the mine."
Benjamín Franklin (1706-1790);
US statesman.
"Absence of occupation is not rest;
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
William Cowper (1731-1800); English poet. |
