My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
- Charlie Chaplin
"The skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death."
- Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
-Oprah Winfrey
Tell the truth, and you don't have to remember anything
-Mark Twain
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-Crowfoot, Native American warrior and orator (1821-1890)
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.
-Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
-Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), Rhetorician (c. 35-100)
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
- apocryphally attributed to Edmund Burke
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground
- Rumi
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
"There is no fineness of accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
- Saul Bellow
Some drink deeply from the river of wisdom. Others only gargle
- Woody Allen :D
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love - Turkish Proverb
