The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
O, had I but followed the arts!
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
God's finger touched him and he slept.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
How's tricks? 20-03-2005
Tej to jk'opon jbatik ta yan k'ak'alNjichaabira
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
Beauty in not in the face beauty is a light in the heart.
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37]
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
Take that!
Peukallal
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
What millions died that Caesar might be great?
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats.
If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
We learn by teaching.
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. |