The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post-mortems. And remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
—Carl Sandburg (American Children’s Books Writer)
And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
—Solomon Short
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
—George MacDonald (Scottish Christian Author)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)