Monday, October 3, 2011

Quotes

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- Franklin P. Jones

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
- Lao Tzu

"It is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel."
- Proverbs 20:3

"Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as ourselves."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."
- Aristotle

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
- Winston Churchill

"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."
- Oscar Levant

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
- Fred A. Allen

"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
- James M. Barrie

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
- Napoleon Hill

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
- Niels Bohr

"The understanding that underlies the right decision grows out of the clash and conflict of opinions and out of the serious consideration of competing alternatives."
- Peter Drucker

"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday."
- John Glenn

"As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated."
- Horace Mann

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