Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Chris Ryser]

Anyone can become angry - that is easy. .........................................







But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.

Aristotle





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[Chris Ryser]

Forgiveness does not change the past,......................................










but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese






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[Chris Ryser]

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, ..................................






any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."

John Henry Newman, Oxford University Sermons





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[Chris Ryser]

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion ................................................







that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944




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[Chris Ryser]

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. ....................................








Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

Karl Kraus



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[Chris Ryser]

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' ......................








Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso




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[Chris Ryser]

"Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other,.................................






on the contrary they are twin sisters."

Jean Baptiste Lacordaire, Letters to Young Men




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[Chris Ryser]

There are four basic food groups, .............................................








milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.

Anon.




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[Chris Ryser]

"'He means well' is useless .............................................







unless he does well."

Plautus




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[Chris Ryser]

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, ..............





and that 99% of them are wrong.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 617, 1949



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[Chris Ryser]

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. .....................................








And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Barry Goldwater



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[Malibu Barbie]

Holy cow, Chris ... ya tryin to up your post count? :bbg:

[Chris Ryser]

"When you make the finding yourself - ........................................







even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan



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[Chris Ryser]

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, ...........................................








you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Chinese Proverb



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[Chris Ryser]

Those that lie down with dogs, ...................................................








get up with fleas.

American Indian Proverb, Blackfoot




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[Chris Ryser]

"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; ...................................................








Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan".

Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 417




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[Chris Ryser]

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence..............................






and more sense than we have."

Don Herold



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[Chris Ryser]

Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:...............................






alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat

Alex Levine



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[66Lenses]

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)

[Chris Ryser]

"If there is something to pardon in everything, .........................................







there is also something to condemn."

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888





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[Chris Ryser]

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

Henry Kissinger




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[Chris Ryser]

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, .............................................







all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.

Anon., (The Women's Petition Against Coffee), 1674




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[Chris Ryser]

We don't see things as they are.





We see them as we are.

Anais Nin



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[Chris Ryser]

"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively.....................







but says nothing."

Anon.




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[Chris Ryser]

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, ................................



to which not only the actual word, .................................





but every possible word, must conform."

Bertrand Russell


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