February 2001 - Archives Quotes

...Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
?Malagasy Proverb ( subjects: disgrace )

False friends are like our shadow, keeping
close to us while we walk in  the sunshine, but
leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
?Christian N. Bovee ( subjects: deceit )

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
?Arthur Calwell ( subjects: defeat )

Dignity is like a perfume; those who
use it are scarcely conscious of it.
?Christina of Sweden ( subjects: dignity )

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell
in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
?Caskie Stinnett ( subjects: diplomacy )

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the
heart, but how much the head, can bear.
?Maria Mitchell ( subjects: endurance )

The nice thing about egotists is that
they don't talk about other people.
?Lucille S. Harper ( subjects: egotism )

To see the world in a grain of sand, and
to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in
the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
?William Blake ( subjects: eternity )

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
?Andrew V. Mason ( subjects: errors )

It's the niceties that make the difference -
fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
?Arthur Schopenhauer ( subjects: fate )

A fanatic is one who can't change
his mind and won't change the subject.
?Sir Winston Churchill ( subjects: fanatics )

Laughter and tears are both responses to
frustration and exhaustion . . . .
I myself prefer to laugh, since there
is less cleaning up to do afterward.
?Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( subject: frustration )

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven
of refuge from the world,
where they can be sure of being admired
when they are not admirable,
and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
?Bertrand Russell ( subjects: love )

Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit.
?Peter Ustinov ( subjects: forgiveness )

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
?J. R. R. Tolkien ( subjects: farewells )

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues,
that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . .
It is in our follies that we are one.
?Jerome K. Jerome ( subjects: fallability )

It is possible to give without loving,
but it is impossible to love without giving.
?Richard Braunstein ( subjects: giving )

Guilt is the source of sorrows,
the avenging fiend that follows us
behind with whips and stings.
?Nicholas Rowe ( subjects: guilt )

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning,
by dreams that need completion,
by pure love that needs expressing,
then we truly live life.
?Greg Anderson ( subjects: goals )

Well has it been said that there is no grief
like the grief which does not speak.
?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( subjects: grief )

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side:
one which we preach but do not practice,
and another which we practice but seldom preach.
?Bertrand Russell ( subjects: hypocricy )

Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain
too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
?Albert Einstein ( subjects: habits )

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of
insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
?Judith Martin ( subjects: honesty )

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our
bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
?Van Wyck Brooks ( subjects: heredity )

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying
to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
?Jessamyn West ( subjects: harm )