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May 2004 Quotes

Be wary of the man who urges an action
in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
Risk

We must all suffer one of two things:
the pain of discipline or the
pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn
Pain

Never let your persistence and passion
turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J D'Angelo
Passion

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George W. Ball
Past

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to
be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have
to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain,
has run from one funnel into the other.
John Christian Morgenstern
Patience

If the secret sorrows of everyone could
be read on their forehead, how many
who now cause envy would
suddenly become the objects of pity.
Italian Proverb
Pity

Those that are most slow in making a promise
are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Promises

A fine quotation is a diamond in
the hand of a man of wit and
a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
Quotes

The test of a man or woman's breeding
is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
Quarrels

You can tell whether a man
is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man
is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
Questions

Regret for the things we did
can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did
not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
Regret

It is the things in common that
make relationships enjoyable,
but it is the little differences
that make them interesting.
Todd Ruthman
Relationships

Progress, far from consisting of change,
depends on retentiveness... Those who
cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Repitition




To be remembered after we are dead,
is but poor recompense for being treated
with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
Memory

Today we are afraid of simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't
believe in the good old words because we
don't believe in good old values anymore.
And that's why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang
Mercy

True merit, like a river, the deeper
it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward F. Halifax
Merit

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

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second
when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck
Mistake

It is surprising what a man can do
when he has to, and how little most men
will do when they don't have to.
Walter Linn
Necessity

Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F Kennedy
Negotiations

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly;
'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
Obstacles

Opinions founded on prejudice are always
sustained with the greatest violence.
Hebrew Proverb
Opinions

The pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Opportunity

It is the deed that teaches, not the name
we give it. Murder and capital punishment
are not opposites that cancel one another,
but similars that breed their kind.
George Bernard Shaw
Opposites

Everybody knows there is no fineness
or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down
one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow
Oppression