A friend of mine forwarded these to me.
Won't you ponder with me?
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert
Example is always more effacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Ingersoll
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James ['Principles of Psychology', 1890]
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
Thoms Hobbes ['Leviathan', 1651]
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse ['Demian', 1919]
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . .
write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill
Patience and perseverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
George Allen
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes.
But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.
Tom J. Connelly
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.
Galileo Galilei
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain
The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
Thomas J. Watson
