To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- Plutarch
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes -- ah, that is where the art resides.
- Artur Schnabel, pianist(1882-1951)
There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth,
beyond us all,beyond the heavens,
beyond the highest,the very highest heavens.
This is the light that shines in our heart.
- Chandogya Upanishad 3.13.7
To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
-William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)
With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.
- Yiddish Proverb
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. -Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)
Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. - German proverb
Men cannot see their reflection in running water, but only in still water.- Chuang Tzu, philosopher (c. 4th century BCE)
Whatever limits us we call Fate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. -Chinese proverb
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. - Henrik Ibsen, playwright (1828-1906)
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
Home is not where you live but where they understand you. - Christion Morgenstern, writer (1871-1914)
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. - J.S.Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1797-1812)
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
- Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison, writer (1672-1719)
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. - Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
I leave to others the importance of what I have or have not done; but let me say that all I have done is to have stood on the shoulders of others so that I can see a little further.- Issac Newton
If you would not be forgotten,As soon as you were dead and rotten,either write things worth reading,or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. -Russian proverb
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. - Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles, statesman (430 BCE)
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo, poet, novelist,and dramatist (1802-1885)
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish. - Yiddish proverb
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. - Zen saying
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men. -Chinese proverb
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus, philosopher (c. 540-470 BCE)
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. - Jewish proverb
Those who wish to sing always find a song. -Swedish proverb
To a person instructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenth of which have their faces turned to the wall.- Thomas Huxley
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. - Hippocrates, physician (460-c.377 BCE)
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. - Confucius, philosopher and teacher(c. 551-478 BCE)
Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. -Charles Schulz, cartoonist (1922-2000)
A bit beyond perception's reach / I sometimes believe I see / that life is two locked boxes / each containing the other's key. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
Never spend your money before you have it. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. - Emile Herzog, writer (1885-1967)
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard upthose round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do." -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
He who fears losing face has no face to lose. - Confucius
'If you can't convince them, confuse them.' - The dictum of Hamish McLintock
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. -P.D. James, writer(1920- )
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923)
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles Schultz
In matter of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. -John Donne, poet (1573-1631)
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. - Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)
