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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
 - Woody Allen (Easterly 2002, p211)

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
- Stephen Vincent Benet

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To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.  -Thiruvalluvar, poet (c. 1st  century BCE or 6th century CE)

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. -Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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They know enough who know how to learn. -Henry Adams (1838-1918)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies inside us" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which  differ from that of their social environment. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.  - Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)

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Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. -Franklin P. Jones

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in  your enterprise. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." - Horace

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity." - Lou Holtz

"Without adversity, without change, life is boring." -  John Amatt

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill

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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.  -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]

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God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. -Swedish proverb

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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him" -Aldous Huxley

Chinese Proverbs

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.


A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

A book holds a house of gold.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

A nation's treasure is in its scholars.

A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

If you bow at all, bow low.

If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.