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

[Chris Ryser]

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, ..........................................








while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

Peter Ustinov, "Dear Me"



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[Chris Ryser]

One thousand days to learn;.................................





ten thousand days to refine

Japanese Proverb


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[Chris Ryser]

"We are what we repeatedly do. ...............................................








Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle



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[DragonLensmanWV]

You can't dry anything with wet hands.



Life is like a can of tuna fish - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good"- Alfred E. Neumann

[Chris Ryser]

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. ..................................





The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman



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[Chris Ryser]

Chocolate, men, coffee - .........................................






some things are better rich.

Anon.





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[Chris Ryser]

"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. .....................................









Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."

David Borenstein, January 28, 2000





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[Chris Ryser]

To the world you might be one person, .........................................









but to one person you might be the world.

Anon.





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[Chris Ryser]

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, .....................................







while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops

Peter Ustinov, "Dear Me"



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[Chris Ryser]

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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[Chris Ryser]

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. ......................................






He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

George Santayana



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[Chris Ryser]

"A real friend is one who walks in ..............................................







when the rest of the world walks out."

Anon.

[Chris Ryser]

Perseverance is the hard work you do ........................................








after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich



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[Chris Ryser]

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, .....................................







or we know where we can find information upon it."

Samuel Johnson



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[Chris Ryser]

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you......................................







This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson




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[Chris Ryser]

A ship in port is safe, ...................................................







but that is not what ships are built for.

Grace Murray Hopper



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[Chris Ryser]

The more things change, ................................






the more they are the same.
[Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose]
Alphonse Karr, Les Guêpes, January, 1849

[Chris Ryser]

"He who knows others is wise.........................................








He who knows himself is enlightened."

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching




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[Chris Ryser]

"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, .................................



the armor of the will, ..........................................




and the fort of reason."

John Locke




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[Chris Ryser]

No river can return to its source, ..............................







yet all rivers must have a beginning.

American Indian Proverb




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[Chris Ryser]

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, ........................................






is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer





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[Scott R]

Give a man a fish and he can eat for one day...................











Teach him to catch fish and he can eat for the rest of his life.

[Chris Ryser]

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty....................................




I think only how to solve the problem.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,





But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

Richard Buckminster Fuller




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[Chris Ryser]

"Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: ...................................







The first is the law, the last prerogative."

John Dryden, "The Hind and the Panther", 1687




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[Chris Ryser]

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, ...................................







and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson, The astronomer, in The History of Rasselas, ch. 41, 1759




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