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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