Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Christopher Lasch
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Benjamin Haydon
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann von Goethe
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Charles Montesquieu
Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going.
Source Unknown
Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
John S. Bonnell
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
Rabbi Ben Azai
There hasn't been peace on earth because people cant seem to figure out that the real enemy is the people manipulating world events from behind the scenes for their own selfish interests.
James Dye
Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Cesare Pavese
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery,
while the rich have to enjoy it.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
John Berger
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Camille Anna Paglia
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
Mark Twain
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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