The mind of the superior man is conversant
with virtue; the mind of the base man is conversant with gain.
--Confucius, Analects, ix, 13
Never look down on anybody unless you're
helping him up.
--Jesse Louis Jackson
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the
country, by the seaside, on the mountains... But all this is unphilosophical to
the last degree... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into
thyself.
--Marcus Aelius Aurelius
It is not enough to have a good mind.
The main thing is to use it well.
- -Rene Descartes, "Le Discours de la
Methode," 1637
Experience is that marvelous thing that
enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
--Franklin P. Jones
Experience is the comb life gives you after
you lose your hair.
--Judith Stearn
No man, for any considerable period, can
wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864)
The concept of culture I espouse, is
essentially a semiotic one. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal
suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be
those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science
in search of law but an interpretative one in search of a meaning.
--Clifford Geertz
Idealism is the noble toga that political
gentlemen drape over their will to power.
--Aldous Huxley
I took a speed reading course and read 'War
and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
--Woody Allen, (1935- )
If we had no winter, the spring would not
be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would
not be so welcome.
--Anne Bradstreet
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is
the attribute of the strong.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi, (1869-1948)
The free-lance writer is the person who is
paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
--Robert Benchley
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
--Joseph Roux, (1834-1886)
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers
of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
The value of marriage is not that adults
produce children, but that children produce adults.
--Peter De Vries, (1910-1993)
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's
the counting.
--Tom Stoppard
"Work expands to fill the time
available for its completion."
--Parkinsons' Law
Peter Principle: an employee within an
organization will advance to his or her level of incompetence and remain there.
--Laurence Johnston Peter (1919-1990)
The creation of a thousand forests is in
one acorn.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882)
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all
distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make
any stand against good wit.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
I
happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any
one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
--Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865)
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