The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
John Morley
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield
Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.
Thomas Sowell
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Johann von Goethe
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Proverb
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Gene Fowler
A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
Source Unknown
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Jean Paul
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham
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