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- Anger is only one letter short of danger.
- Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind
- He who strikes the first blow confesses he has run out of ideas.
- The difference between prejudice and a conviction is that you can explain a conviction without getting mad.
- People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
- The longer you keep your temper the more it will improve.
- Do not go to pieces if you burn the toast. Some day your house may burn down and you can take that calmly too.
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- The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.
--- George Bernard Shaw
- In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came fore the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because Iwasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
--- Martin Niemoeller
- Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
--- Helen Keller
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- Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
- The most savage controversies re those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
--- bertrand Russell
- It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
--- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais
- There’s only one thing worse than the man who will argue over anything, and that’s the man who will argue over nothing.
--- Laurence J. Peter
- Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.
--- Robert Quillen
- The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
--- Chinese Proverb
- Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
--- Jonathan Swift
- If you can’t answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
--- Elbert Hubbard
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- A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Joy is not in things; it is in us.
--- Richard Wagner
- A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart.
- In the pursuit of happiness half the world is on the wrong scent. Thy think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. Happiness is really found in giving and in serving others.
--- Henry Drummond
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- Hate is a prolonged manner of suicide.
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- One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
--- Shakespeare, Hamlet
- I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked, and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
--- Oscar Wilde
- Iwill have nought to do with the man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
--- Aesop
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- It’s smart to pick your friends - but not to pieces.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- One reason a dog is such an adorable creature is that his tail wags instead of his tongue.
- Friends are made by many acts - and lost by only one.
- Who gossips to you will gossip of you.
- It is better to keep your mouth shut and thought a fool than it is to open it and prove it.
- There is only a slight difference between keeping your chin up and sticking your neck out, but it’s worth knowing.
- Be sure your brain is in gear before engaging your mouth.
- Blessed is he who, having nothing to say,
refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves nothing unsaid.
- Words in haste do friendships waste.
- Wise men are not always silent, but know when to be.
- When you hear that someone has gossiped of you, kindly reply that he did not know the rest of your faults or he would not have mentioned only these.
- What is a powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know!
- A loose tongue often gets into a tight place
- Man is master of the unspoken word, which, spoken, is master of him.
- Dignity is the capacity to hold back on the tongue what never should have been in the mind in the first place.
- Speech may sometimes do harm; but so many silence and a worse harm at that. No insult ever caused so deep a wound as a tenderness expected and withheld; and no spoken indiscretion was ever so bitterly regretted as the word that one did not speak.
- Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.
- Better to let ‘em wonder why you didn’t talk than why you did.
- You can never tell about a woman, and if you can, you shouldn’t.
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- Wouldn’t it be nice if we looked at people and jelly beans and liked them all? And didn’t just pick out the pretty or smart people or red or black jelly beans but loved them all for what they are.
- The Cold Within
- By James Patrick Keeny
Six humans trapped by happenstance...
in bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs,
the first man held his back,
For of the faces round the fire,
he noticed one was black.
The next man looking cross the way,
saw one not of his church,
And couldn’t bring himself to give
the fire his stick of birch
The third one sat in tattered clothes,
he gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
to warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought of
the wealth he had in store,
And how to keep what he had earned
from the lazy, shiftless poor.
The Black man’s face bespoke revenge as the
fire passed from his sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood was a
chance to spite the White.
The last man of the forlorn group did
naught except for gain,
Giving only to those who gave
was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death’s still hand
was proof of human sin,
They didn’t die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.
- One nice thing about egotists: They don’t talke about other people.
--- Lucille S. Harper
- An egotist is a man who thinks that if he hadn’t been born, people would have wondered why.
- Taxes could be much worse - suppose we had to pay on what we think we’re worth
- The bigger a man’s head gets, the easier it it so fill his shoes.
- Swallowing your pride occasionally will never give you indigestion.
- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- I am not conceited, though Ido have every reason to be.
- The trouble with some people is that they won’t admit their faults. I’d admit mine - if I had any.
- We would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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last updated: June 9
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