quotes




Here are some quotes that I appreicate for one rason or another. I hope you enjoy them and will become enlightened by these words of wisdom just as I was!
~Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.~	There is no beauty greater than that which makes us wonder if its warm glow comes not just from the sun, but from within.
~Energy and persistence conquer all things.~
	Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
~Nothing is ever lost by cortesy.It is the cheapest of pleasures;and costs nothing and conveys much.~
~In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes there.~

~A successful man makes more money then his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.~
~Behold the turtle, he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.~
~Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.~
~Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could listen twice as much as we speak.~
~The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself~ Thales
~The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook~William James
~It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance,for it requires knowledge to percieve it;and, therefore,he that can percieve it hath it not~ Jeremy Taylor
~Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see then weigh~ Phillip Stanhope
Forecasters tend to learn more and more about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything~ Edgar Fiedler
Women are better then men because the know less and understand more~ James Stephens
~The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance~ Diogenes Laertius
~Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing~ Herodotus
~Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at~ Solomon Short
~In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory~ Alfred Whitehead
~You say that love is nonesense...I tell you it is no such thing.For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain,an ache about the heart,never leaving one,by night or by day;a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism,not intolerable at any one instant,but exhausting by it's steady drain on the strength~ Henry Adams
~The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost~ G.K. Chesterton
~Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other~ Louise Erdrich
~Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime~ Jean Florian
~Love makes the time pass, time makes the love pass~ French Proverb
~Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists...When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be; incompleteness in absence~ Goncourt
~Do you want me to tell you something really sybversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be.That's why people are so cynical about it... It's really worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.And the trouble is if you don't risk anything, you risk even more~ Erica Jong
~There is always some madness in love. But there is also some reason in madness~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~It is so strange that words are so inadequate. Yet like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words~ T.S. Eliot
~Words,like nature,half reveal and half conceal the soul within~Alfred Tennyson
~If you be pungnet, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn~ Robert Southey
~Words are but pictures of our thoughts~ Dryden

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Here are some quotes that I appreicate for one rason or another. I hope you enjoy them and will become enlightened by these words of wisdom just as I was!
~Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.~	There is no beauty greater than that which makes us wonder if its warm glow comes not just from the sun, but from within.
~Energy and persistence conquer all things.~
	Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
~Nothing is ever lost by cortesy.It is the cheapest of pleasures;and costs nothing and conveys much.~
~In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes there.~

~A successful man makes more money then his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.~
~Behold the turtle, he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.~
~Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.~
~Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could listen twice as much as we speak.~
~The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself~ Thales
~The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook~William James
~It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance,for it requires knowledge to percieve it;and, therefore,he that can percieve it hath it not~ Jeremy Taylor
~Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see then weigh~ Phillip Stanhope
Forecasters tend to learn more and more about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything~ Edgar Fiedler
Women are better then men because the know less and understand more~ James Stephens
~The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance~ Diogenes Laertius
~Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing~ Herodotus
~Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at~ Solomon Short
~In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory~ Alfred Whitehead
~You say that love is nonesense...I tell you it is no such thing.For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain,an ache about the heart,never leaving one,by night or by day;a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism,not intolerable at any one instant,but exhausting by it's steady drain on the strength~ Henry Adams
~The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost~ G.K. Chesterton
~Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other~ Louise Erdrich
~Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime~ Jean Florian
~Love makes the time pass, time makes the love pass~ French Proverb
~Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists...When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be; incompleteness in absence~ Goncourt
~Do you want me to tell you something really sybversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be.That's why people are so cynical about it... It's really worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.And the trouble is if you don't risk anything, you risk even more~ Erica Jong
~There is always some madness in love. But there is also some reason in madness~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~It is so strange that words are so inadequate. Yet like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words~ T.S. Eliot
~Words,like nature,half reveal and half conceal the soul within~Alfred Tennyson
~If you be pungnet, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn~ Robert Southey
~Words are but pictures of our thoughts~ Dryden