I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
?Albert Einstein ( weapons )
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
?Chinese Proverb ( war )
He who has provoked the shaft of wit,
cannot complain that he smarts from it.
?Samuel Johnson ( wit )
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens.
If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
?Chinese Proverb ( worth )
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition,
there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
?George Soros ( wrongs )
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either.
?Golda Meir ( weeping )
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something,
loves something and has lost something.
?H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ( fear )
Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit.
?Peter Ustinov ( forgiveness )
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them,
but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
?R. Venning ( wealth )
I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.
?Latin Proverb ( want )
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...
and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
?Dr Seuss ( authors: s )
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
?Elizabeth E. Bowen ( jealousy )
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
?Louisa May Alcott (authors: a)
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
?John Heyl Vincent ( sadness )
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens
above us and the feeling of duty within us.
?Indian Proverb ( universe )
Revenge is best served hot, with a side of fries.
?Me
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
?Benjamin Franklin ( tact )
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being
tired or worried or hungry; we put our
good temper down to ourselves.
?C. S. Lewis ( temper )
Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer
are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add
another life; they build a heaven before us where
of we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to
us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
?Ralph Waldo Emerson ( rejection )
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment,
Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
?Jean Pierre Claris De Florian (romantic quotes)
have to admit it's hard sometimes to overlook things when
they are hurled at you, but I always try to adhere to a
motto that makes a bit of sense to me and that is:
"That which you resist, will persist."
So step aside and let it pass.
?Sandra Bullock ( authors: b )
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others,
like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees,
will often be stung for his curiosity.
?Alexander Pope ( observation )
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal.
No one feels, who does not at the same time give it.
To be pleased, one must please.
What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
?Lord Chesterfield ( pleasure )
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything.
In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.
?Chinese Proverb ( joy )
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
?Joseph Campbell ( mercy )
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if
we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our
misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
?Erica Jong ( misery )
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but
grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
?Thomas Otway ( lust )
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in
the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson ( authors )
