Word Of Wisdom 4

 Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler)
There is a woman at the begining of all great things. (Alphonse de Lamartine)
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. (Walter Savage Landor)
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. (Lao Tzu)
It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back. (Lao Tzu)
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Conceal a flaw, and teh world will imagine the worst. (Martial)
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. (Karl Marx)
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville)
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. (Menander)
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. (H. L. Mencken)
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. (John Stuart Mill)
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. (Marvin Minsky)
How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception. (Alfred de Musset)
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work (Ogden Nash)
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. (Friederich Nietzsche)
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. (Friederich Nietzsche)
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. (Earl Nightingale)
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. (Louis Nizer)
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. (Friedrich Novalis)
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. (Thomas Paine)
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. (Blaise Pascal)
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur)
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. (Cesare Pavese)
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. (Edward Phelps)
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. (Pindar)
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. (Pindar)
A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. (Marcel Proust)
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. (Marcel Proust)
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. (Howard Pyle)
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time. (Peter Quennell)
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.(Agnes Repplier )
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. (Cardinal de Retz)
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. (Jean Paul Richter)
We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine. (Francois duc la Rochefoucauld)
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. (Francois duc la Rochefoucauld)
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers (Leo Rosten)
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. (Leo Rosten)
Satire is focused bitterness. (Leo Rosten)
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. (Leo Rosten)
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. (Leo Rosten)
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. (Leo Rosten)
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. (Theodore Rubin)
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. (George Santayana)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)
Fanatacism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.(George Santayana)
Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself. (Kajetan von Schlaggenberg)
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Life is but a moment, death also is but another. (Dr Robert Schuller)
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it. (David Searles)
All art is but immitation of nature. (Seneca)
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. (George Bernard Shaw)
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. (George Bernard Shaw)
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. (William Shedd)
Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good  That lies within their hands, till they have lost it. (Sophocles)
To him who is in fear everything rustles. (Sophocles)
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. (Publius Syrus)
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Publius Syrus)
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. (Sara Teasdale)
I am a part of all that I have seen. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. (Terence)
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. (Henry David Thoreau)
Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. (Henry David Thoreau)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau)
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. (Harry Truman)
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. (Paul Valery)
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. (Margaret of Valois)
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. (Lew Wallace)
And from the discontent of one man. The world's best progress springs. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell the truth. (Oscar Wilde)
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. (Oscar Wilde)
There is more stupidity around than hydrogen, and it has a longer shelf life. (Frank Zappa)

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