Sunday, November 22, 2015

Quotes

Joseph Roux - "A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." 
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. - Confucius
Mark Twain - "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

 For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. - Seneca

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. - Marcus Aurelius 
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. » Confucius

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Wittgenstein 
« Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself. » Seneca









The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius









« Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.- Aristotle



Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart. - Charles Dickens 
Euripides -  Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Akira Kurosawa - In a mad world only the mad are sane.





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