Quotes

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. - John Cage

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. - Honore de Balzac

It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson

The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed. - Nicolas Sebastien de Chamfort

I envy the animals' two things: their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. - Voltaire

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said, than something you wish you hadn't. - Frank A. Clark

Making music is another way of making children. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. - William M. Thackeray

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties. - Marcus Aurelius

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanies by fear. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The human being is the weakest reed in the world, but it is a reed that thinks. - Blaise Pascal

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. - Pericles

A proverb distills the wisdom of the ages, and only a fool is scornful of the commonplace. - William Somerset Maugham

Words, like eyeglasses, bur everything that they do not make more clear. - Joseph Joubert

Human beings love company even if it is only that of a small burning candle. - Georg Christoph Lichenberg

The mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson

If what you are telling is true, you don't have to choose your words so carefully. - Frank A. Clark

If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well. - Ruth Carlisle

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on it's way to being solved. - R. Buckminster Fuller

To live is to be slowly born. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. - Frank Tibolt

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth. - R. Buckminster Fuller

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. - Cyril Connolly

Seek simplicity, and distrust it. - Alfred North Whitehead

If the temper of your mind gets interwoven with your convictions, you lose in heat what you might gain by reason. - Margot Asquith

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. - Walter Lippmann

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. - Earl of Chesterfield

Whenever one finds himself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. - Bertrand Russell

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one. - Christina of Sweden

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. - Herbert Hoover

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. - Anonymous

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. - Charistian Furchtegott Gellert

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species. - William Hazlitt

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else. - William Saroyan

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe