Wednesday, December 14, 2011

words of wisdom (not mine)

Many can argue; not many converse.
Louisa May Alcott

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein 

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain 

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw

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