Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca th
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine, "Common Sense", 17
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain
To err is human to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.
My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
Jeff Bezos
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan, "Parade", March 2
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LaoTzu
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.
John Winthrop
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
There are four lights!
Catain Jean-Luc Picard
If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
Will Rogers, July 15, 1923
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell, Politics and the
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