In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
ConfuciusBetween friends there is no need of justice.
AristotleThe actuality of thought is life.
AristotleHe who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham LincolnHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
ZhuangziIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
William ShakespeareIf you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark TwainLife's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin FranklinTo understand everything is to forgive everything
BuddhaMemory is the scribe of the soul.
AristotleMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my own sake.
AristotleEverybody likes a compliment.
Abraham LincolnThe secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
BuddhaWho is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Benjamin FranklinThe desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible.
Maya Angelou...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good, in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen, than the greater...
AristotleFear has its use, but cowardice has none.
Mahatma GandhiIt is better to travel well than to arrive.
BuddhaWe are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya AngelouHe who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao TzuNothing is permanent.
BuddhaAs irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
BuddhaWhen you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
Bob DylanThe virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
BuddhaAlways borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
Oscar WildeRemember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai LamaNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham LincolnMoney is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
Bob MarleyThe safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. LewisThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeThe more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William ShakespeareYou talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Kahlil GibranAll that glisters is not gold.
William ShakespeareIf you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
George Bernard ShawI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnA wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.
Maya AngelouFacts are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.
Mark TwainA man can die but once.
William ShakespeareI would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.
William ShakespeareWisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Muhammad AliDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother TeresaIf you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – never lie to yourself.
Paulo CoelhoNobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane AustenI trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.
Oprah WinfreyIt is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin FranklinThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareIn heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard ShawKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark TwainClose some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.
Paulo CoelhoWisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Herman HesseGod has given me no control over the following moment. I am concerned about taking care of the present.
Mahatma GandhiFreedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma GandhiAll get what they want; they do not always like it.
C. S. LewisI think therefore I am. I think.
George CarlinLearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
Herman HesseI've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Maya AngelouWe read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Rabindranath TagoreThe aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.
AristotleTo be wise and love, exceeds man’s might.
William ShakespeareWe are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.
Alan WattsWrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.
Rabindranath TagoreHonest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiIt is better to know how to learn, than to know.
Dr. SeussRemember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
Frank ZappaStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleNo one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
Paulo CoelhoWhen I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Paulo CoelhoOne can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
Mahatma GandhiThe one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Rabindranath TagoreThe false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
Rabindranath TagoreFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William ShakespeareEven peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin FranklinTo be idle is a short road to death, and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
BuddhaThe wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently, but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.
AristotleA wise traveler never despises his own country.
William HazlittIn matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert HallI saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body but whatever it was that made her body live.
ConfuciusAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. MenckenGood men abandon lusting after things, they take no pleasure in sensual speech, when touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise show no elation or dejection.
BuddhaDesire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William ShakespearePeople with virtue must speak out, People who speak are not all virtuous.
ConfuciusDon't tell fish stories where the people know you, but particularly don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark TwainYou CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Oprah WinfreyThere are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
BuddhaThe skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun TzuWhen a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
BuddhaYou only lose what you cling to.
BuddhaIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
William ShakespeareWhen I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham LincolnWho is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinThe mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
AristotleThere is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel ButlerConflict cannot survive without your participation.
Wayne DyerThe pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane AustenA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas CarlyleSurprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane AustenHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinEach generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George OrwellA man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainAn overflow of good converts to bad.
William ShakespeareNo man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. ThompsonAll our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da VinciMorality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar WildeTravel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas FullerIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard ShawThe superior man understands what is right, the inferior man understands what will sell.
ConfuciusFortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar GracianA dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
BuddhaIt is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark TwainVanity, working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane AustenHe that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin FranklinSometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
Joel OsteenThose who know how to think need no teachers.
Mahatma GandhiThe disciple should associate with a wise friend who detects and censures his faults and who points out virtues as a guide tells of buried treasures. There is happiness not woe to him who associates with such an intelligent friend.
BuddhaThose who own much have much to fear.
Rabindranath TagoreA fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareA word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill CosbyWhat is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.
Sai BabaMy sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane AustenThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation, rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleTo refuse awards is another way of accepting them, with more noise than is normal.
Mark TwainYou will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
BuddhaAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark TwainBeing a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLearning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity and a provision in old age.
AristotleHe who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun TzuIt takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin FranklinStanding in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret ThatcherThere is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
AristotleFrom a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Arthur Conan DoyleEach of us has that right that possibility to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself she will be invented. So to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Maya AngelouA mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath TagoreWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil GibranWe should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
AristotleWhen the storytelling in a culture goes bad, the result is decadence.
AristotleAge considers, youth ventures.
Rabindranath TagoreI like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William ShakespeareA little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Samuel ButlerRather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin FranklinThe wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo CoelhoHe who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ConfuciusThe most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert EinsteinNoise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark TwainHe that speaks much is much mistaken.
Benjamin FranklinWhere so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Jane AustenTalk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain you gain all, if you lose you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that He exists.
Blaise PascalSelf-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen KellerA man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
ConfuciusA 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma GandhiUnity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
BuddhaThe obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil GibranHow sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William ShakespeareA well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da VinciVices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles DickensWe should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma GandhiThe wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years, sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl JungA bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
AristotleThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThose who do not complain are never pitied
Jane AustenDon't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
ConfuciusEverything that can be counted does not necessarily count, everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert EinsteinGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William ShakespeareThe more you own the more you know you don't own.
AristotleWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar WildeEmancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath TagoreNeither a borrower nor a lender be.
William ShakespeareBetter a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William ShakespeareThink simple, as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinA youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
ConfuciusWhoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert EinsteinA fool despises good counsel but a wise man takes it to heart.
ConfuciusNearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma GandhiMine is better than ours.
Benjamin FranklinOne's own religion is, after all, a matter between oneself and one's Maker, and no one else's.
Mahatma GandhiSaints need sinners.
Alan Watts'Tis better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of.
William ShakespeareHe does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
ConfuciusMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar WildeWhere an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane AustenI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand RussellHaving abandoned the ways of darkness, let the wise follow the light. Having come from home to homelessness, let him enjoy the bliss of solitude so difficult to achieve.
BuddhaNo enemy is worse than bad advice.
Sophocles'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William ShakespeareMake everything as simple as possible but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinHappiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
AristotleOne's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar WildeThe robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
William ShakespeareOur defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham LincolnThe post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
Jane AustenOne swallow does not make a spring nor does one fine day.
AristotleSo near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. MenckenHe who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
AristotleThe people who are absent are the ideal, those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMemory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert EinsteinA person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark TwainSometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry SeinfeldWhat's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William ShakespeareI don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham LincolnThe cautious seldom err.
ConfuciusThe moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma GandhiHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin FranklinHow do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
Lou HoltzThe wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
BuddhaLove and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Kahlil GibranAction expresses priorities.
Mahatma GandhiHe who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da VinciSelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar WildeWhen in doubt, don't.
Benjamin FranklinHow many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
AristotleAn empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert EinsteinIf a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas HuxleyRescue someone unwilling to look after himself and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Mason CooleyIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George WashingtonAll that one gains by falsehood is not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
AristotleThere is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma GandhiDogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha ChristieIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark TwainModest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William ShakespeareIt is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin FranklinI have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David ThoreauThe way of the superior person is threefold, virtuous they are free from anxieties, wise they are free from perplexities, and bold they are free from fear.
ConfuciusIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb ColtonAs every divided kingdom falls so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da VinciWherever there is danger there lurks opportunity, whenever there is opportunity there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Earl NightingalePrayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma GandhiAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma GandhiBetter a broken promise than none at all.
Mark TwainLet me embrace thee sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareThink not lightly of evil, saying 'It will not come to me.' Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil.
BuddhaI've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya AngelouEven death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
BuddhaIntolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma GandhiA church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward BeecherOne who drinks the nectar of the Good Law lives happily with a tranquil mind. The wise man ever delights in the Dhamma as realized by the Noble Ones.
BuddhaTo write well express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
AristotleThe tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
BuddhaIf you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil GibranMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
AristotleIt is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen KellerA wise man recognizing that the world is but an illusion does not act as if it is real so he escapes the suffering.
BuddhaA man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis BaconWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
Alan WattsI'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. SeussThe whole is more than the sum of its parts.
AristotleSilence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad AliNo matter how you treat him, the man will never be satisfied.
Bob MarleyTruth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
MenciusLook like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
William ShakespeareTempt not a desperate man.
William ShakespeareTime shall unfold what plighted cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
William ShakespeareEven when laws have been written down they ought not always to remain unaltered.
AristotleA mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane AustenChi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
ConfuciusCompliments win friends, honesty loses them.
Rabindranath TagoreWhat you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
Rabindranath TagoreChoose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
ConfuciusDon’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.
Paulo CoelhoA man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark TwainWithout patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.
Mother TeresaBetter a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
ConfuciusNonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
Mahatma GandhiThe optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Kahlil GibranTo Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
AristotleI never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert EinsteinA person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
Herman HesseThe opposite of every truth is just as true.
Herman HesseNo man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller