A woman’s clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.
—African Proverb
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.
—Jimmy Connors (American Sportsperson)
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian Head of State)
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
—Alan Alda (American Actor)
Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
—Common Proverb
School can give a false sense of confidence or of loserhood. Too often, school success does not predict life success.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)
A word to the wise is enough, and many words won’t fill a bushel.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)
In for a penny, in for a pound.
—Common Proverb
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.
—George Santayana (Spanish Philosopher)
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)