This is my third installment of quotes.
~Elizabeth
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." --Mahatma Gandhi
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." --Chinese Proverb
"It says something about our times that we rarely use the word sinful, except to describe a really good dessert." --Willard D. Ferrell
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." --Churchill
"The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment." --Ruth Brown
"He who does not attempt to make peace
When small discord arise,
Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey
Soon, the whole hive collapses." --Nagarjuna (C. 100-200 A.D.)
"Sometimes it's better for people to wonder why you remained silent than for them to wonder why you spoke." --Unknown
"Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe... the others have a certain sickness." --D.H. Lawrence
"There are three types of friends: those like food, without which you can't live; those like medcine, which you need occasionlly; and those like an illness, which you never want." -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves." --Alexander Pope
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." --Seneca
"True strength is delicate." --Louise Nevelson
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James
"Never deprive soemone of hope... it may be all they have." --Unknown
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you." --Henry Ward Beecher
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments." --Earl Wilson
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." --Sir Edmund Hillary
"People change and forget to tell each other." --Lillian Hellman
"It's not what you call me, but what I answer to." --African Proverb
"The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards." --A. Jablokov
"To guess is cheap, to guess wrongly is expensive." --Chinese Proverb
"My spirit has danced with yours for a short time, but the song will remain forever." --Unknown
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. --Swedish proverb
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. --Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. --Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. --Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849)
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. --Robert Benchley
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. --Jesse Lee Bennett
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse. --Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. --Ariel Durant
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. --Joseph Conrad
In death the many become one; in life the one become many. --Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. --Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. --Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. --Franklin P. Jones
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." --Maria Montessori, Italian educator (1870-1952)
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. --Helen Keller
Wit is educated insolence. --Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) [The Art of Rhetoric]
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. --Turkish proverb
A leader who keeps his ear to the ground allows his rear end to become a target. --Angie Papadakis
Write the bad things that are done to you in the sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. --Arabian wisdom
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. --Charles Wadsworth
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. --Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist (1754-1824)
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. --Socrates (469?-399 B.C.)
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. --John Balguy
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. --La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. --Rita Rudner
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. --Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. --Mary Little
Nowadays, people can be divided into three classes - the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-for-What-They-Haves. --Earl Wilson, newspaper columnist (1907-1987)
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. --Chinese proverb
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. --James Branch Cabell, novelist, essayist,critic (1879-1958)
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. --Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. --H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. --Ellen Glasgow, novelist (1874-1945)
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. --Maureen Murphy
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. --Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. --Chinese proverb
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. --Chinese Proverb
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. --Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, dramatist, and artist (1883-1931)
Avarice, envy, pride, / Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all / On Fire. --Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) [The Divine Comedy]