Wisdom

1 He that can se a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an elephant on his nose. Malay proverb

2 We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what he have already done Henry Wadsworth longfellow

3 We are always doing something for posterity, but just once I'd like to see posterity do something for us. Joseph Addison

4 Resolve to be thyself , and know that he who finds himself loses his misery Matthew arnold

5 There are some people that if they don`t know you can't tell 'em Louis Armstrong

6 You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of intuition. What you discover will be wonderful, what you'll discover will be yourself. A. Alda

7 When you have an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run A. Lincoln.

8 It's amazing how complete the delusion that beauty is goodness Leo Tolstoy

9 when you sit with a nice girl for two hours ,you think it's only a minute when you sit on a hit stove for a minute you think its two hours that's relavitity A. Einstein

10 The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of suffering Thomas Merton

11 Be not afraid of life, Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact William James

12 The easiest kind of relatioship for me is with 10,000 the hardest w/ 1. Joan Baez.

13 ##Friendship is the union of the part of one mind with another, people are friends in spots. George Santayana

14 The only man who is truly free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse Jules Renard

15 Who would succeed in the world should be wise in the use of his pronouns Utter the you twenty times, where you once utter the I John Milton Hay

16 Greatness after all in spite of its name , appears to be not so much a certain size as it is a quality of life. Phillips Brooks

17 Marraige must continually vanquish the monster that devours everything, the monster of habit. Honore' de Balzac

18 Anxiety in life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life trust is the oil. Henry Ward Beecher

19 Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on a pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight Josh Billings

20 When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion Ethiopian proverb

21 The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them Kin Hubbard

22 Make happy those who are near , and those who are far will come. Chinese Proverb

23 Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, but when the trees bow down their heads the wind is passing by Christina Rosetti

24 If we let things terrify us , life will not be worth living Seneca

25 It is easy to forgive others for their mistakes, It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West

26 There are those that speak one moment before they think Jean de la bruyere

27 The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye , the Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all Theodore Isaac Rubin

28 It isn't the mountain the wears you out, its the grain of sand in your shoe Robert Service

29 No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever Francois Mauriac

30 Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast, in the pool where you least expect you will find a fish Ovid.

31 ##A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives Jackie robinson

32 When one door of happiness closes another opens, but we look at the closed one so long we miss the open one. Helen Keller

33 The best way to lead is to restore to others , the belief in their own guidance . Henry Miller

34 You should not say it is not good , but rather you do not like it then you are perfectly safe. James Macneill Whistler

35 Nothing is so burdensome as a secret French Prover

36 Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. Agnes de Mile 37 Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle Michelangel

38 There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way Christopher Morley

39 Have no friends not equal to yourself. Confucius

40 I'm exhausted from not talking Samuel Goldwyn

41 You can't add to one by weakening another You can't add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant Ben Franklin

42 When we are not sure, we are alive. Graham Greene

43 Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. Spanish Proverb

44 All things are to be examined and called into question There are no limits set to thought. Edith Hamilton

45 Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones as the wind will blow out a candle and blow in a fire. La Rouchefocauld

46 The best way to keep your word is not to give it. Napolean Boneparte

47 Time does not become sacred for us until we have lived it. John Burroughs.

48 Sports do not build character they reveal it. Heywood Broun

49 If you can't say anything nice about someone, sit right here by me. Alice roosevelt Longworth

50 Who is his own friend is a friend to all men Seneca

51 Deep seated preferences can not be argued about you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer Oliver Wendle Holmes

52 There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe Publius Syrus

53 To fall in love with yourself is The first secret of happiness Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company Robert Morley

54 Power is the ability not to have to please. Elizabeth Janeway

55 Nothing is so agravating as calmness Oscar Wilde

56 You never really lose until you quit trying. Mike Ditka

57 The more haste the less speed John Heywood

58 If you are lonely when you are alone , you are in bad company. Jean Paul Sartre.

59 Do not wish to be anything but what you are , and try to be that perfectly. Frances de Sales

60 When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt Henry Kaiser

61 Once the toothpaste is out of the tube its hard to get back in RH Heldeman

62 If you have built castles in the air , your work need not be lost. That is where they should be . Now put foundations under them. Henry D. Thoreau

63 We cherish our friendships not for their ability to muse us, but for ours to amuse them. Evelyn Waugh

64 A good meal ought to begin w/ hunger. French Proverb

65 I'm a slow walker but I never walk back A. Lincoln

66 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being Johann von Goethe

67 Silence is the one great art of conversation William Hazlitt

68 Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word glory to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

69 The future comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson

670It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France