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| Various Wise Sayings |
| Mike Treder's Collected Wit & Wisdom |
| I believe the stuggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the motive power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men. -- Hermann Hesse Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day we wake slightly altered and the person we were yesterday is dead. -- John Updike I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it through not dying. -- Woody Allen |
| We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. -- La Rochefoucauld |
| Every revolutionary idea evokes three stages of reactions: At first people say, "It's completely impossible." Then they say, "Maybe it's possible to do it, but it would cost too much." Finally they say, "I always thought it was a good idea." -- Arthur C. Clarke The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. -- Albert Einstein Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. -- Benjamin Disraeli There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father. -- Saul Alinsky The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke One can resist the invasion of an army; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. -- Victor Hugo To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. -- Hypatia of Alexandria Education is entertainment; entertainment is education. If you don't know that, you don't know anything about either of them. -- Unknown Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Give me chastity and continence, but not yet! -- Augustine of Hippo People need love most when they deserve it least. -- Ernest Eberhard If we only walk on sunny days, we will never reach our destination. -- Chinese proverb Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. -- Chinese proverb |
| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. -- Henry Miller Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things. -- La Rochefoucauld |
| This Is To Have Succeeded To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |