Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 14

Don''t speak unless you can improve upon the silence.

How like our lives, the rose''s life and death.
How like our fate, the cruel fate that falls
Upon its happy lot and gruffy calls
It from its bloom to sudden certain death!

We often despise what is most useful to us.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
But you live in torment if you don''t trust enough.

There''s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.

There''s driftwood on the lightest waves that blow,
And worthless mud in deepest depths below.
Yet purest pearls upon the surface ride,
And priceless gems lie far beneath the tide.
Rich treasures with the worthless sands do toss.
We everywhere find mingled gold and dross.
So whether we sail high or sink below,
We find some joy, some sorrow, where we go.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

Don''t look for the flaws as you go through life;
And even when you find them,
It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind,
And look for the virtue behind them; ...

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you''re going to get.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

When people are free to do what they want, they usually imitate one another.

Men should be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Disguise our bondage as we will,
''Tis woman, woman rules us still.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Power corrupts, but we need electricity.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we are all going to perish together as fools.

What people earn and what they deserve is seldom identical.

Then I turned to him commanding
That he go the way he came, whence he came.
But he answered me in sorrow,
"May the Past not seek to borrow
From the Present without blame -
Just one memory from its store,
Ere it goes to come no more,
Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.