Wise Words


The road to hapiness is paved with adversity.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.
- C.A. Bovee

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

After all is said and done, there's a lot more said than done.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
   --Abraham Lincoln

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Sidney Goff

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- BIBLE, John 15:13

You can bear anything if it isn't your fault.
- K.F. Gerould

No one is always a fool, but everyone is a fool sometimes.

We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.
- Sam Levenson

You should learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. -
Alfred Adler

Nothing will make you pay an old dental bill faster than a new toothache.

How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.

It's better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
- Anatole France

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
- Nikos Kazantzakis

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.
- OVID, Tristia

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
- Richard M. Nixon

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
- Theodore Rooseveldt

Never try to reason the predjudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
- Sydney Smith


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