The worst-tempered people I've ever met were
the people who knew they were wrong.
?Wilson Mizener ( subject: temper )
As no roads are so rough as those
that have just been mended,
so no sinners are so intolerant
as those that have just turned saints.
?Charles Caleb Colton
( subjects: tolerance)
The pure and simple truth is
rarely pure and never simple.
?Oscar Wilde ( subjects: truth )
Most people would like to be delivered from
temptation but would like it to keep in touch
?Robert Orben ( subject: temptation )
The most beautiful things
in the universe are the starry
heavens above us and
the feeling of duty within us.
?Indian Proverb
( subject: universe )
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic be
alcohol or morphine or idealism.
?Carl Gustav Jung
( subject: vices )
Possibly, more people kill themselves
and others out of hurt vanity
than out of envy, jealousy,
malice or desire for revenge.
?Iris Murdoch ( subject: vanity )
He who has provoked the shaft of wit,
cannot complain that he smarts from it.
?Samuel Johnson ( subject: wit )
Those who don't know how to weep with their
whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
?Golda Meir ( subject: weeping )
The opposite of talking isn't listening.
The opposite of talking is waiting.
?Fran Lebowitz ( subject: waiting )
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it.
The more a man has, the more he wants.
Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
?Benjamin Franklin ( subject: wants )
You probably wouldn't worry
about what people think of you if
you could know how seldom they do.
?Olin Miller ( subject: worry )
If you wish to drown, do not torture
yourself with shallow water.
?Bulgarian Proverb ( subjects: water )
