Improvement makes straight roads;
but the crooked roads without
improvement are roads of genius.
?William Blake
Time engraves our faces with
all the tears we have not shed.
?Nancy Clifford Barney
The most dangerous creation of any society
is that man who has nothing to lose
?James Baldwin
A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill
it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
?Josh Billings
Character builds slowly, but it can be
torn down with incredible swiftness.
?Faith Baldwin
Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.
?Dan Bennett
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs - jolted
by every pebble in the road.
?Henry Ward Beecher
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so
pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of
adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
?Anne Bradstreet
Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love,
I can: all of them make me laugh.
?W H Auden
Don't condescend to unskilled labor.
Try it for half a day first.
?Justin Brooks Atkinson
The truth is often a terrible weapon
of aggression. It is possible to lie,
and even to murder, for the truth.
?Alfred Adler
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who
never make up their minds to be good or evil.
?Hannah Arendt
Remember, today is the tomorrow
you worried about yesterday.
?Dale Carnegie
Yesterday
The best antidote I have found
is to yearn for something. As long
as you yearn, you can't congeal: there
is a forward motion to yearning.
?Gail Godwin
Yearning
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
You probably wouldn't worry about
what people think of you if you could
know how seldom they do.
?Olin Miller
Worry
One of the hardest things in life is having
words in your heart that you can't utter.
?James Earl Jones
Words
If a person is to get the meaning of life
he must learn to like the facts about himself --
ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity --
before he can learn the truth behind the facts.
And the truth is never ugly.
?Eugene O'Neill
Vanity
There are victories of the soul and spirit.
Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
?Elie Wiesel
Victory
Every form of addiction is bad, no
matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
?Carl Gustav Jung
Vices
When you are unhappy, is there
anything more maddening
than to be told that you should
be contented with your lot?
?Kathleen Norri
Unhappiness
Tenderness and kindness are
not signs of weakness and
despair, but manifestations of
strength and resolutions.
?Kahlil Gibran
Tenderness
Opportunity may knock only once,
but temptation leans on the doorbell.
?Anonymous
Temptation
