Great quotes to think about - love them or leave them
I never wonder to see men wicked,
but I often wonder not to see them ashamed.
Jonathan Swift
Don’t go around saying ‘The world owes you a living’!
The world owes you nothing - it was here first!
Mark Twain
Those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope
Who never climbs as rarely falls.
John Greenleaf Whittier
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
Dignity consists not in possessing honors,
but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
It’s not that life is too short –
it’s just that you’re dead for so long.
Unknown
My way of joking is to tell the truth.
It’s the funniest joke in the world.
G. B. Shaw
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
G. B. Shaw
It is our vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.
La Rochefoucauld
The desire to appear clever often prevents our being so.
La Rochefoucauld
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Sophocles
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
Shakespeare (Duncan in "Macbeth")
Foolery, Sir, does walk about the orb like the sun -
it shines everywhere.
Shakespeare (Feste in ‘Twelfth Night’)
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson
Children begin by loving their parents.
After a time they judge them.
Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
Oscar Wilde
