Quotes

[lasslicker]

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

 

[kbluejayk]

Twelve things to remember......

1. The value of time.
2. The success of perseverance.
3. The pleasure of working.
4. The dignity of simplicity.
5. The worth of character.
6. The power of kindness.
7. The influence of example.
8. The obligation of duty.
9. The wisdom of economy.
10. The virtue of patience.
11. The improvement of talent.
12. The joy of originating.

- Marshall Field.

 

[kbluejayk]

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth.

- Solomon

 

[kbluejayk]

He who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

- Author Unknown.

 

[kbluejayk]

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

- Euripides

 

[kbluejayk]

Go to friends for advice;
To women for pity;
To strangers for charity;
To relatives for nothing.

- Spanish Proverb

 

[kbluejayk]

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

- Karl Von Knebel

 

[kbluejayk]

Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself.

- Seneca.

 

[kbluejayk]

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

- William Shakespeare

 

[kbluejayk]

My salad days,
When I was green in judgement.

- William Shakespeare.

 

[baci2004]

"I want to know God's thoughts the rest are details"

- Albert Einstein

 

[lasslicker]

My bounty is as deep as the sea,
My love is as deep; the more I give to thee.
The more I have, for both are infinite.

Shakespeare

 

[lasslicker]

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague's paradox

 

[kbluejayk]

To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice.

- Magna Carta

 

[kbluejayk]

He who commences many things finishes but few.

-Unknown

 

[kbluejayk]

Blessed is the generation in which the old listen to the young; and doubly blessed is the generation in which the young listen to the old.

- The Talmud

 

[kbluejayk]

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

- Horace Mann

 

[kbluejayk]

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

- William Shakespeare

 

[kbluejayk]

Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

- George William Curtis

 

[kbluejayk]

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

- Voltaire.