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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
~wise old sayings by Buddha
Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.
~inspirational sayings about Wise Words quotes by M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~wise old quotes by Charles W. Eliot
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
~famous quotes about Civilization by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
~wise old sayings by Frank Tyger
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
~wise old sayings by Samuel Hoffenstein
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
~inspirational sayings about Night quotes by Rachel Carson
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
~wise old quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
~famous quotes about Beauty by Rachel Carson
Man would be otherwise. That's the essence of the specifically human.
~wise old sayings by Antonio Machado
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
~wise old sayings by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
~inspirational sayings about Adversity quotes by William Shakespeare
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
~wise old quotes by Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Neibuhr
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
~famous quotes about Wise Words by Oscar Wilde
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
~wise old sayings by Winston Churchill
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~wise old sayings by Bill Vaughn
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
~good sayings about Home by Author Unknown
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
~wise old quotes by Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
~motivational quotes about Being Yourself sayings by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
~wise old sayings by Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
~wise old sayings by Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
~good sayings about Science by François Rabelais, Pantagruel, 1572
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
~wise old quotes by Aristide Briand
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.
~motivational quotes about Opportunities sayings by Hazel Lee
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~wise old sayings by Horace Mann
Suicide is man's way of telling God, You can't fire me - I quit.
~wise old sayings by Bill Maher, on Politically Incorrect, 1995
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
~good sayings about Kindness by Malcolm S. Forbes
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
~wise old quotes by Albert Camus, The Rebel
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
~motivational quotes about Age sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sadness flies away on the wings of time
~wise old sayings by Jean de La Fontaine
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others She does not care to be herself
~wise old sayings by Anais Nin
Do not follow where the path may leadGo, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail
~good sayings about Graduation by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
~wise old quotes by C.C. Colton
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.
~motivational quotes about Friendship sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.
~wise old sayings by E.W. Howe
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