Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 15

Sopra la campa, la capra canta,
Sotto la campa, la capra crepa.

The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

It is not only necessary to love, it is necessary to say so.

Your attitude is the librarian of your past, the speaker of your present, and the prophet of your future!

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be dissapointed!

Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

When in doubt, mumble.
When in trouble, delegate.
When in charge, ponder.

Lose no time to contradict her,
Nor endeavor to convict her;
Only take this rule along,
Always to advise her wrong,
And reprove her when she''s right;
She may then grow wise for spite.

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.

How may I ignore you today?

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker is sorry.

If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn''t, it ain''t. That''s logic.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn''t have said.

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

Love is not blind; it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see the more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn''t.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind; but if it meets danger, it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man''s character, give him power.

It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside.