MISCELLANEOUS
What cannot be cured with medicaments is cured
By the knife, what the knife cannot cure
Is cured with searing-iron, and whatever,
This cannot cure must be considered incurable.
(Hippocrates, 5th century B.C.)
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
(Haidth)
Respect your own children and make good their manners.
(Haidth)
By Allah, has regards for your wives and for the female servants.
(Haidth)
Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
(Unknown)
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
(Unknown)
Interdependence is a higher value than independence.
(Unknown)
Things, which matter most, must never be at the mercy of things, which matter least.
(Goethe)
Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
(Spanish Proverb)
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
(Tom Stoppard)
Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewellery.
(John Lennon)
A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.
(Lao-Tzu)
Well begun is half done.
(Aristotle)
One can bear grief, but it takes two to be glad.
(Elbert Hubbard)
The most damaging phrase in the language is: it’s always been done that way.
(Rear Admiral Grace Hooper)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. NO machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
(Elbert Hubbard)
Vice stings us even in our pleasure but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
(Colton)
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
(Proverb)
Adversity causes men to break, others to break records.
(William Arthur Ward)
Real communications happen when people feel safe.
(Ken Blanchard)
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
(Wayne Gretzky)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
(Aesop)
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
(Beverly Sills)
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
(Ancient Buddhist Expression)
All cruelty springs from weakness.
(Seneca)
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
(Victor Hugo)
As the purse is emptied (in charity), the heart is filled.
(Victor Hugo)
Keep a cheerful countenance
Banish gloomy care;
Think not that your lot is hard,
Pain is every where.
But the heart that trusts in God,
Shall have plenteous grace;
Putting all your hope in Him,
Keep a cheerful face.
(Marrianne Earninghan)
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
(Southey)
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
(Louisa May Alcott)
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
(Cassius)
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
(St. Augustine)
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is good only for wallowing.
(Katherine Mansfield)
A
painting
in a
museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
(Edmond and Jules Goncourt)
To know things as they are is better than to believe things, as they seem.
(Lois G. Forer)
Never try to make anyone like yourself…you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
China is a university from which the scholar never gets a degree.
(Lord Curzon)
Victory had folded its wings almost as soon as they were spread for flight.
(De Gaulle)
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
(Blake)
There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away,
When the glow of early thought declines in feeling’s dull decay.
(Bryon)
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
(Shakespeare)
The three pillars of the nation are education, labor and the vote.
(Guiseppe Mazzini)
States are not made, nor patched: They grow: grow slow through centuries of pain.
(John Masefield)
All the glitter is not gold.
(Shakespeare)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)
A lie gets half around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
(Sir Winston Churchill)