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He was so educated that he could name a horse in nine languages.
So ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
:Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790, American statesman, inventor, writer.)
The royal crown cures not the headache.
( :Also by Benjamin Franklin)
It is not a fool who does not know,
a fool is he, who knows what is not so.
:Will Rogers (1879 - 1935, American humorist, actor, writer. )
Integrity, is it more important to a man to return a benefit,
than to collect a debit?
:Socrates (47? - 399, B.C., Greek philosopher, teacher.)
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he
begins to blame somebody else."
John Burroughs
Courage; is resistance to fear, :not the absence of fear. Except a
creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
:Mark Twain ( Samuel Clemens )(1835 - 1910, American humorist, novelist )
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
a real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
:Plato (428 - 347 B. C. Greek philosopher, teacher, student of Socrates.)
Live to learn and you will learn to live.
:Ancient proverb
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
:William Cowper (1731 - 1800, English poet )
An open mind is all very well in its way,
but it ought not to be so open
that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
:Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902, English novelist, )
Study with out thought is vain; thought with out study is dangerous.
:Confucius (551 - 497 B.C., Chinese philosopher.)
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver,
the world would not be one grain of corn the richer;
nor one comfort would be added to the human race.
:Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792 - 1822, English writer )
The highest reward for man's toil is not " what he gets for it,"
but " what he becomes by it."
:John Ruskin (1819 - 1900, English writer )
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
:Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish Statesman (U.N. Sec.Gen. 1953-1961)
You can't measure time in days the way you can money in
dollars because every day is different.
-Jorges Borges-" |
