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

[Chris Ryser]

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Lord Chesterfield

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Joseph Addison

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I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

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It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.

John Milton

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

John Wooden

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Fran Lebowitz

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France

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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

Frank M. Garafola

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You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

Peace Pilgrim

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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

George Herbert

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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The nail that stands out will be hammered down.

Japanese Proverb

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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France

my motto

[Chris Ryser]

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

William Shakespeare

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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Ann Landers

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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Walt Whitman

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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

General George Patton

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Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

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[Chris Ryser]

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

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