Saturday, April 11, 2009

Darkly Comical Quotes

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. – Thales

Much has been said about the relative value of happpiness, but write it on your heart that happiness is the cheapest thing in the world—when we buy it for someone else. – Flemming

One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. – Thackeray’

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration—to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. – William Matthews

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence: faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. – Sherwood Eddy

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand. – Maurice Switzer

Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meaness. – George Sand

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for a forty-hour day. – Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

Help thy brother’s boat across, and lo! Thine own has reached the shore. – Hindu Proverb

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. – R.L. Long


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