- The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania. - It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
- The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- Life is just a bowl of pits.
- Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
- Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
- The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
- Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Life is a long lesson in humility.
- Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
- The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
- Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Great One Liners.....
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist.
Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.
As I said before, I never repeat myself.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them..
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder..
Bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass..
Regular naps prevent old age.. especially if you take them while driving..
Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!
They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried- but they wanted cash.
Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.
You can't buy love. . But you pay heavily for it.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Don't confuse me with facts, my mind's already made up!
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.
Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
DON'T STEAL! - The government hates competition
Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.
Guests and fish start to stink after two days.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.
Couldn't afford to fix my brakes, so I made my horn louder.
Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting what to have for lunch.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Inspirational Quotes....
“Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!”
“Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.”“Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.” [read business fable]
“Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember: others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ... Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
“The world is full of people giving good advice to others, but I have thought we should all be better off if we would advise ourselves more, and others less. If I could take the good advice I am capable of giving, I should have no occasion to accept it from others.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”
“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is.”
“You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.”
“Whenever you fall, pick up something.”
“Every step you take, is a step away from where you used to be.”
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Quotes on Relationships..
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~Leo Buscaglia
Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
~Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade of Lost Objects," 1954
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler
I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin
In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. ~Robert Brault,
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~Frederick Buechner
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne
I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore
Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. ~Carl Reiner
Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. ~Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. ~Robert Brault,
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever
No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are. ~Anonymous
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Author Unknown
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. ~Robert Brault
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~Mary Tyler Moore
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie
Friendship Quotes..
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne
Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield
We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton
Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Menclus
In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson
No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne
Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield
We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton
Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Menclus
In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson
No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
On the subject of quotes and proverbs.....
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott
The maxims of men disclose their hearts. - French Proverb
To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet
I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. - Michel de Montaigne
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - William R. Alger
What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter Anderson
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. - Vicesimus Knox
A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.- William B. Sprague
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell Lowell
Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell Lowell
Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. - Unknown
There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. - Joseph Joubert
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. - Samuel Smiles
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert
Human success is a quotation from overhead. - Charles H. Parkhurst
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. - Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle
A proverb is the child of experience. - Old Saying
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. - Sir J. Mackintosh
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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