He works and blows the coals, and has plenty of other irons in the fire.
—Aristophanes (Greek Comic Playwright)
The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts, but by his everyday behavior.
—Blaise Pascal (French Philosopher, Scientist)
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
—George William Curtis (American Essayist)
To know where you are going, you first have to know where you have come from.
—Inuit Proverb
Though all men be made of one metal, yet they be not cast in one mold.
—John Lyly (English Dramatist, Author)
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
—David Ben-Gurion (Russian-born Israeli Head of State)
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
—Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)
Every act of love brings happiness; there is no act of love which does not bring peace and blessedness as its reaction.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Monk, Mystic)
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
—Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch Humanist, Scholar)
Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.
—Giacomo Leopardi (Italian Poet)
Men and women go to the theatre only to hear of love, and to take part in the pains or in the joys that it has caused. All the other interests of humanity remain at the door.
—Alexandre Dumas fils (French Dramatist, Novelist)
To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
—Ken Keyes Jr. (American Self-Help Author)
When an artist holds up a mirror to nature he finds out who and what he is; but the knowledge may change him irredeemably so that he becomes that image.
—Al Alvarez (English Critic, Poet, Novelist)
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
—Maggie Kuhn (American Activist)
We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French Philosopher)
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
—Jean de La Fontaine (French Poet)
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
—Philip James Bailey (English Poet)
Connecting is a constant process of giving and receiving—of asking for and receiving help.
—Keith Ferrazzi (American Author)
All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
—Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) (Danish Novelist, Short-story Writer)
Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
—Swedish Proverb
Take counsel of your prudence, take counsel of your caution, but never take counsel of your fears.
—James Walker (American Clergyman)