Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.
Source Unknown
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Lord Chesterfield
Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Source Unknown
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.
Claude Pepper
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Robert Half
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Philipus A. Paracelsus
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
Source Unknown
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
Bernadine Dorn
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York, 1985
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
George Gurdjieff
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
Dick Martin
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus, Adages
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Elbert Hubbard
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
Chinese Proverb
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.
Anon., Irish Proberb
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
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