Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Bocelli

All that counts in life is intention.

Aesop

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

Aesop

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Aesop

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Aesop

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Aesop

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Aesop

It pays to be prepared.

Aesop

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Aesop

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Aesop

Example is the best precept.

Aesop

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop

Little by little does the trick.

Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

Wisdom is not experience, it is the interpretation of experience.

Jane Addams

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

Janis Joplin

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Jane Wyman

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Boethius

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Bodhidharma

Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Bodhidharma

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

Brigham Young

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Antonio Machado

There is no way; we make the road by walking it.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Edward Young

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Edmund Burke

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Edmund Burke

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.

Edmund Burke

The grand instructor, time.

Edmund Burke

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.