Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA
It is better be alone than in bad company.
Don Quijote
Where one door closes, another opens.
Johann Sebastian Bach
There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
No one ever became great by imitation.
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Lao-Tzu BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ”Tao Te Ching”
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not too fearful of unhappiness.
If I knew of a way wide and fit, would I lose it at every turning?
Edward Abbey 1927-1989, American Writer
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.
Sir Francis Bacon
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
Meher Baba
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Robert Burns 1759-1796, Scottish Poet
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Sir Richard Burton 1821-1890, Explorer, Born in Torquay
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
George Burns 1896-1996, American Comedy Actor
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
You’ve got to be honest; if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed
Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Mark Twain – American Writer
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself also.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) – German Philosopher
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
The greatest wonder of the universe is that anything exists at all.
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