If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
William John Bennett
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
Honor the ocean of love.
George De Benneville
Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
James Bennis
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
Arthur Christopher Benson
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
Edward Frederic Benson
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
Ezra Taft Benson
This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.
Ivan Benson
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
St. Bernard
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton John Sheen
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
Martin Sheen
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
Denise Shekerjian
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
W. H. Sheldon
What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.
Richard Shelton
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
William Shenstone
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
Sam Shepard
Trust in your preparation.
Davie Sheppard
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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