We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.
Bhagavad Gita
But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!Who knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained,Immortal, indestructible,shall suchSay, I have killed a man, or caused to kill?Nay, but as when one layethHis worn-out robes away,And, taking new ones, sayeth,These will I wear to-day!So putteth by the spiritLightly its garb of flesh,And passeth to inheritA residence afresh.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One. I am mighty, world-destroying Time
Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 11:14
Bible
A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. Proverbs 12:15
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:2
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16
While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. Job 12:12
Where there is no counsel, the people perish; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 29:18; 11:14
The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. Proverbs 21:25
The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. Isaiah 26:8
Hanlon's Razor:Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Anon.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln, First inaugural
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Cri
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Sir Winston Churchill, November
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan, 1963
Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Gen. Joseph Stilwell
I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.There are several other cited sources of Roosevelt using this proverb.
Theodore Roosevelt, letter to He
Un croquis vaut mieux qu
Napoleon
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.NOTE: this is a proverb that is traced back to Proverbs in Scot by J. Carmichael (1628)
James Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Richard Nelson Bolles, What Colo
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.N. B.: This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.
Bible, Psalm 119: 96
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, "Four
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes, Pappus of Alexandria
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.possible source for the famous quotation attributed to Burke: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. See also Plato's quotation in topic 'apathy'
Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Ca
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.N.B.: Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 12:19
Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:7
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Bible, Matthew 8:2122
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Bible, Matthew 22:14
It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
Abraham Lincoln
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