Browsing Quotes, page 31
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them
Speaker: Cato the ElderPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own … You can’t clear your own fields while you’re counting the rocks on your neighbor’s farm
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No-one of any sense has ever bet against the scorn and resourcefulness of young men
Speaker: TychoPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 8:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 14 Feb 2010 at 2:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expendicture nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
Speaker: Charles DickensSource: David CopperfieldPosted: 13 Feb 2010 at 7:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own
Speaker: Bruce LeePosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Speaker: Lao TzuPosted: 28 Jan 2010 at 7:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
Speaker: Charles WadsworthPosted: 21 Jan 2010 at 3:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
Speaker: Winston ChurchillPosted: 12 Jan 2010 at 3:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
Speaker: James Nathan MillerPosted: 12 Jan 2010 at 3:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A happy family is but an earlier heaven
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 03 Jan 2010 at 8:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 01 Jan 2010 at 1:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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