PROVERBS AND QUOTATIONS OF MANY WISE MEN
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may be easily impressed on the memory.– SAMUEL JOHNSON
PROVERBS APOTHEGMS APHORISMS MAXIMS
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.– SIR J. MACKINTOSH
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.– DIDEROT
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgments of wisdom.– JOUBERT
A maxim is a conclusion from observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; principle carries knowledge within itself and is prospective.– COLERIDGE
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. – SENECA
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.- NA
Waste not; Want not. Wilful waste makes woeful want.- NA
He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.- NA
The end must justify the means.- NA
The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.–EASTERN PROVERB
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.- CHINESE PROVERB
He only does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech, to the good of others.– HINDU MAXIM
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.– CHINESE PROVERB
There is no worse robber than a bad book.– ITALIAN PROVERB
Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.– GERMAN PROVERB
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.– GERMAN PROVERB
God keep you from “It is too late.” When the fool has made up his mind the market has gone by.– SPANISH PROVERB
Rogues differ little. Each began first as a disobedient son.– CHINESE PROVERB
Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.- PERSIAN PROVERB
Live with the wolves and you will learn to howl.– SPANISH PROVERB
There are two perfectly good men: one dead, and the other unborn.– CHINESE PROVERB
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.– ARAB PROVERB
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.– CHINESE PROVERB
An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.– ENGLISH PROVERB
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cant.– CHINESE PROVERB
Do little things now, so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.- PERSIAN PROVERB
Marry in haste and repent forever.- NA
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.– JEWISH SAYING
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.– SPANISH PROVERB
Prayer and provender hinder no man’s journey.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.- RUSSIAN PROVERB
Humility is always more becoming than pride. It is also more productive.- NA
All sunshine makes the desert.– ARAB PROVERB
An apt quotation is as good as an original remark.- NA
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.- NA
Speech is silvern, silence is golden; speech is human, silence is divine.– GERMAN PROVERB
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.– ARAB PROVERB
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.–CHINESE PROVERB
The work will teach you how to do it.– ESTONIAN PROVERB
I shall be true for there are those who trust me.– CHINESE PROVERB
QUOTATIONS OF FAMOUS OR THINKING MEN
If we do not learn the lessons of history we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. We do not have enough time to learn everything from our own experience so learn the easy way from the observations from the experiences of others.
SOLOMON
“Get wisdom...Wisdom is the principal thing and with all thy getting, get understanding....Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: She shall bring thee to honor when thou shalt embrace her...”
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
ADDISON
Had Cicero himself pronounced one of his orations with a blanket about his shoulders, more people would have laughed at his dress than admired his eloquence.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man and fix our attention on his infirmities.
ALFRED ADLER
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
AGESILAUS
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
W.R.ALGER
Love makes obedience lighter than liberty.
MARCUS ANTONIMUS
No man is happy who does no think himself so.
J. OGDEN ARMOUR
There may be luck in getting a good job–but there’s no luck in keeping it.
ARNOLD
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know and you shall attain to a higher knowledge.
ARISTOTLE
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Justice is to give to every man his own.
Wicked men obey from fear: good men, from love.
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws.
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequently, imperishable.
AUSONIUS
Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
BACON
Discretion in speech, is more than eloquence.
All the armies on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
The pleasure and delight of knowledge far surpasseth all others in nature. Of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable.
Nature is commanded by obeying her.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
A man who studieth revenge keeps his own wounds unhealed.
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
G. BAILEY
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.
HOSEA BALLOU
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as a drop of ink soileth the pure white page.
I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell to tobacco.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit!
BALZAC
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses.
BARROW
An hour’s industry will do more to produce cheerfulness, suppress evil humors, and retrieve one’s affairs, than a month’s moaning– It sweetens enjoyment and seasons our attainments with a delightful relish.
Industry hath annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.
ALLEN E. BARTLETT
Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
BARTOL
Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
Patience is a nobler motion than any deed.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,– a letter of credit everywhere.
BARTON
Obstinacy and vehemence in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith.
BEAUMONT
A guilty conscience is a hell on earth
RICHARD BAXTER
An ounce of mirth is better than a pound of sorrow.
BEATTIE
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think–rather to improve our minds so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
From labor, health, from health, contentment springs.
BEECHER
The world is God’s workshop for making men.
Good nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.
Happiness is not the end of life; character is.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would without a telescope.
Any impure man is every good man’s enemy.
Thinking cannot be clear till it has had expression.–We must write or speak or act our thoughts for them to be complete in our mind.
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
It is not what people read, but what they remember, that makes them learned.
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
S. BENEDICT
Idleness is the enemy of the soul.
A. C. BENSON
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
BERANGER
He who remembers the benefits of his parents is too much occupied with his recollections to remember their faults.
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
BIAS
The greatest misfortune of all is to be unable to bear misfortune.
JOSH BILLINGS
The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that aint so.
G .D. BOARDMAN
Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
BOUFFLERS
Ignorance is a prolonged infancy, only deprived of its charm.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The only conquests which are permanent, and leave no regrets, are our conquests over ourselves.
If France will have good mothers, then France will have good sons.
BOVEE
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
Dishonesty is a forsaking of a permanent for a temporary advantage.
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
Imitation belittles.
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
Language denotes the man; a course or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
Few minds wear out; most rust out.
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
SIR JOHN BOWRING
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
DOROTHEA BRAND
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
LOUIS BRANDEIS
No one can really pull you up very high– you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
THOMAS BRAY
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.
MADELAINE BRIDGES
Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.
BROOKE
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Charity should begin at home but it should not stay there.
Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
RICHARD BROOKS
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship: and he who plants kindness gathers love.
LORD BROUGHAM
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
ROBERT BROWNING
Progress is the law of life.
BRYANT
God hath yoked to guilt, her pale tormentor, misery.
BUDDHA
Master books, but do not let them master you.–Read to live, not live to read.
To be happy you must forget yourself.–Learn benevolence (and practice it.)
Nothing short of an eternity could enable men to imagine, think, feel and to express all they have imagined, thought and felt. –
Immortality, which is the spiritual desire, is the intellectual necessity. We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth.
That life only is truly free which rules and suffices for itself.
We lose the peace of years when we seek the rapture of moments.
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,–fine breeding. (Source?? But a worthy quotation regardless of Author)
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
LUTHER BURBANK
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine food and medicine to the soul.
BURGH
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
In prosperity prepare for a change. In adversity hope for one.
BURKE
Whatever disunites man from God disunites man from man.
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair.
ROBERT BURNS
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us
It wad from monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
S. BUTLER
In law nothing is certain but the expense.
Silence is not always tact; and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
RICHARD E. BYRD
Give wind and tide a chance to change.
BYRON
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Hatred is madness of the heart.
Without hearts there is no home.
A drop of ink may make a million think.
The busy have no time for tears.
HERB CAEN
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
CALDERON
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer’s need.
CALVIN
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
CARLYLE
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
There is no greater every-day virtue than cheerfulness.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
In idleness there is perpetual despair.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Public opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Speech is great, but silence is greater.
Genius is the capacity for taking infinite pains.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
No man is a true gentleman who does not inspire the affection and devotion of his servants.
CAMILLO DI CAVOUR
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
CECIL
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
CERVANTES
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Short sentences are drawn from long experience.
If you would take your possessions into the life to come, convert them into good deeds.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all.
CHANNING
Books give to all who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the greatest and best of our race.
VICTOR CHARLES
The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.
CHATEAUBRIAND
As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Dress yourself fine, where others are fine, and plain where others are plain, but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you.
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
I look upon indolence as a form of suicide.
If we do not plant knowledge when young it will give us no shade when we are old.
CICERO
What gift has Providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary as food to the body.
A perverse and fretful disposition makes any state of life unhappy.
There is something in the nature of things which the mind of man, which reason, which human power cannot effect and certainly,-- that which produces this must be better than man. What can this be but God.
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills and acts, –it is something celestial and divine,
Philosophy, if rightly defined, is nothing but the love of wisdom.
A man’s own manner and character are what most become him.
Men resemble gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow men.
Brevity is the great charm of eloquence.
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
No grief is so acute but that time ameliorates it.
Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
In prosperity, let us take great care to avoid pride, scorn, and arrogance.
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues.
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life, we lose all that gives it charm.
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, as far from speaking ill as from doing ill.
The whole of virtue consists in its practice.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
RUFUS CHOATE
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
CHURCHILL
Patience is sorrow’s salve.
CHRYSOSTOM
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation and bond of all virtue.
ADAM CLARK
Strong drink is not only the devil’s way into a man, but a man’s way to the devil.
JUDGE COLERIDGE
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not, directly or indirectly, caused by strong drink.
COLLETTE
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
ROBERT COLLYER
A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.
COLTON
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their desires.
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves and always a temptation to others.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either receives.
In idleness there is perpetual despair.
Employment is nature’s physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
CONFUCIUS
The expectations of life depend upon diligence.
The mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
When anger arises, think of the consequences.
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
The way of a superior man is threefold; virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
Recompense injury with justice, and unkindness with kindness.
All men are born good.
JOSEPH CONRAD
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JAMES BRYANT CONANT
Behold the turtle: he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
CATO
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
COOPER
Neither piety, virtue, nor liberty can long flourish in a community where the education of youth is neglected.
NOEL COWARD
Work is much more fun than fun.
COWPER
Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.
FRANK CRANE
The most essential element in any home is God.
CLARENCE DARROW
The trouble with law and government is lawyers.
DAVENANT
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
ABRAHAM DAVENPORT
I choose to be found doing my duty.
SIR HUMPHRY DAVIES
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
MICHAEL E. de MONTAIGNE
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
O. DEWEY
I don’t believe in the goodness of disagreeable people.
DICKENS
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children as well as the sins of the fathers.
DIDEROT
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
DIOGENES
The vicious obey their passions as slaves do their masters.
DISRAELI
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for opportunity when it comes.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
Tact comes as much from goodness of heart as from fineness of taste.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in heroic makes heroes.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm.
HENRY DRUMMOND
The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity.
DRYDEN
Love is love’s reward.
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
How can finite grasp infinity?
They think too little who talk too much.
JEAN DUCEY
Love is never squandered; the least remnant, however tattered; abides to our benefit.
MADAME DUDEVANT
Rules of society are nothing, one’s conscience is the umpire.
JIMMY DURANTE
Maybe there’s nobody who is smart and wise enough to do without a little nonsense.
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”–Anonymous.
DUMAS
We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give.
EDISON
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
TRYON EDWARDS
High aims form high characters, and great objectives bring out great minds.
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends on our interest in it.
We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions as his opinions hold him.
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies, cheaper and easier of application, and surer in results.
The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for wrongs in the past, the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer or the world receive.
It is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions and has them under wise and full control.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth.
He who can suppress a moment’s anger may prevent a day of sorrow. To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
Never be so brief as to be obscure.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purpose goes forth in action, actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
To be good, we must do good.
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both.–It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier to apply and surer in results.
EINSTEIN
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The school should always have as its aim that the young man leave it as a harmonious personality, not as a specialist.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
I never take counsel of my fears.
DUKE ELLINGTON
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Every noble activity makes room for itself.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting–
A wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
He who loves goodness, harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immorality.
To be successful an author or orator needs to make his words smaller than his thoughts.
Self-command is the main eloquence.
Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Life is not so short but there is always time for courtesy.
Farming is everybody’s business.
The greatest prayer is patience.
There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
EMMOMS
Selfishness is the root and source f natural and moral evils.
EPICTETUS
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
EDWARD EVERETT
Lift where you stand.
FABER
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
FARQUHAR
Necessity is the mother of invention.
FELTHAM
Every man should study conciseness in speaking.
FICHTE
To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.
FIELDING
Wicked companions invite and lure us to hell.
JIM FIEBIG
Might does not make right; it only makes history.
HENRY FORD
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
ANNE FRANK
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
FRANKLIN
Eat to please thyself; but dress to please others.
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
God helps those who help themselves.
Wealth is not his that has it but his that enjoys it.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Be aware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry makes all things easy.
The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
ROBERT FROST
Life goes on.
FROUDE
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
FULLER
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
He that sips of many arts, (or knowledge) drinks of none.
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost.
Act nothing in a furious passion. It is putting to sea in a storm
Take the daughter of a good mother.
GALEN
Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential for happiness.
PAUL GANDOLA
Every minute starts an hour.
GIBBON
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
H. GILES
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
ARTHUR GODFREY
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just stand there.
GOETHE
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
A useless life is only an early death.
Life is the childhood of immortality.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep pace in their downward tendency.
The smallest hair throws its shadow.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
One cannot always be a hero but he can always be a man.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
If you would create something–you must be something.
To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.–
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Method will teach you to win time.
Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Every thing in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity
The absence of temptations is the absence of virtue.
We always have time enough if we will uses it aright.
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose them.
GOLDSMITH
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
The loud laugh speaks the little mind.
J. M. GOOD
Happiness consists in activity–Such is the constitution of our nature. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
GRENVILLE
As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.
JOHN HAYES HAMMOND
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
HALLIBURTON
When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.
A. S. HARDY
Work is a great blessing. After evil came into the world it was given as an antidote, not as a punishment.
HARE
None but a fool is always right.
To Adam paradise was home. To the good man among his descendants, home is paradise.
The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.
HAZLITT
The more we do, the more we can do.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
OLE HELGERSON
Worry never fixes anything.
A. HELPS
To hear always, to think always, to learn always. It is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, and learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
M. HENRY
When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.
GEORGE HERBERT
All is well with him who is beloved of his neighbors.
A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.
HERRICK
Against disease the strongest defense is the defensive virtue, and abstinence.
WARD HICKEN
Seeking knowledge from good books each day,
Will help you solve problems in every way.
Your reactions can cause more damage to you–
Than insults, persecution or torture can do.
It is cheaper to pardon than to resent.
Forgiveness does the cost of anger prevent.
Hatred wastes time both night and day
When forgiveness could banish it and easy way.
A wise man will make haste in resentment forgiving
And use the time saved for happier living.
Forgive and forget for peace of mind
And happiness you will be sure to find.
Through books you can go where others have been
And see through their eyes all the things they have seen.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HERSCHEL
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
ERIC HOFFER
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless.
J. G. HOLLAND
A noble deed is a step toward God.
O. H. HOLMES
Knowledge and timber should not be used until they are seasoned.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
HOME
Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to fewer virtues.
HOMER
Too much rest itself becomes a pain.
W. K. HOPE
Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don’t talk back.
HOWELLS
The religion of Christ reaches and changes the heart as no other religion does.
HUBBARD
Folks who never do more than they are paid for never get paid for more than they do.
HUFELAND
Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion.
VICTOR HUGO
Men have sight; women have insight.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Press on! A better fate awaits you.
W. HUMBOLDT
Work is as much a necessity to man as sleeping and eating.
LEIGH HUNT
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
HUNTER
Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her.
F. D. HUNTINGTON
Practice in life whatever thou prayest for, and God will give it thee more abundantly.
W. R. INGE
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it becomes due.
WASHINGTON IRVING
It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that when the real world is shut out it can create a world for itself...and can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude popular and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
ST. JEROME
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
The chains of habit are too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Language is the dress of thought.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
The future is purchased by the present.
To be all that we can be is the real purpose of life.
Slander is the revenge of a coward.
The future is bought with the present.
Whatever you have, spend less.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
BEN JONSON
They that know no evil will suspect none.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Politeness smooths wrinkles.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts.
JUVENAL
Nature and wisdom always say the same thing.
No man ever arrived suddenly at the summit of vice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING
The time is always right to do what is right.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back, with seven fresh duties at its back.
Nothing is so infectious as example. (Good or bad)
Make it a rule, and pray to God to help you keep it, never if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say; “I have made at least one human being a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least, a little better this day”.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
As we are now living in eternity, the time to be happy is today.
KOSSUTH
The unspoken word never does harm.
LACORDAIRE
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
LAMARTINE
If God is thy father, man is thy brother.
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts; because the works of this genius are always works of love.
Women have more heart and more imagination than men.
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion–hatred.
History teaches everything, even the future.--
ANN LANDERS
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
LA NONE
The best teacher we can have is necessity.
L. E. LANDON
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
DOUG LARSON
An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.
LAVATER
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions, and actions of others. (Think for yourself, Be creative! )
Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
WARDEN LEWIS E. LAWES
Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children’s courts of the future will have less to do.
If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
ROBERT E. LEE
Teach him to deny himself.
History teaches us to hope.
DAVID E. LILIENTHAL
The genius of America is in its ability to make adjustments.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
We must learn to be alone.
ART LINKLETTER
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
LOCKE
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
J. R. LOWELL
Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
LONGFELLOW
Nothing is or can be accidental with God.
A torn jacket can be mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Our deeds follow us and what we have been makes us what we are.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Silence is a great peacemaker.
W. J. LUCAS
It is the wise head that makes the still tongue.
LUTHER
Allegories are fine ornaments and good illustrations, but not proof.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Sin is essentially a departure from God.
LYTTON
Happiness and virtue react upon each other,–the best are not only the happiest , but the happiest are usually the best.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
There are no atheists in foxholes.
R. S. MACARTHUR
Men seldom die of hard work; activity is God’s medicine. The highest genius is willingness and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.
MACAULEY
Politeness has been defined as benevolence in small things.
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
G. MACDONALD
Do the truth you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
A. MACLAREN
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is “Thou fool!”
N. MACLEOD
Our only safe rule is, “Whatsoever your hand findeth to do, Do it with all your might”
Love cannot stay at home; a man cannot keep it to himself. He must give it away.
MME de MAINTENON
It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords happiness.
JOSEPH MALIN
Better guide well the young than reclaim when they are old.
H. MANN
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.
MASSINGER
The over-curious are not over-wise.
NEAL A. MAXWELL
Work is a spiritual necessity.
JAMES MARTINEAU
We do not believe in immortality because we have proved it, but we forever try to prove it because we believe it.
J. M. MASON
Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.
It will cost something to be religious; it will cost more to be not so.
W. MATHEWS
It is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men.
MAZZINI
The world is advancing. Advance with it!
Labor is the divine law of our existence; repose is desertion and suicide.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
HENRY L. MENCKEN
The secret of a happy marriage: Courtesy
ALFRED MERCIER
What we learn with pleasure, we never forget.
JAMES MICHENER
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
CONYERS MITTLETON
Virtue, itself, offends when coupled with forbidding manners.
J. STUART MILL
He, who knows only his own side of the case, know little of that.
MILNE
The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize
JOHN MILTON
Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems.
All wickedness is weakness.
“He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit in the center and enjoy bright day.
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under a mid-day sun.”
MOHAMMED
Riches are not from an abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
F. C. MONFORT
The morality of the Bible is, after all, the safety of society.
LADY M. W. MONTAGUE
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
D. L. MOODY
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
MOORE
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
HANNA MOORE
Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot lead to good.
No man, on his deathbed, ever repented of being a Christian.
J. P. MORGAN
When asked what he considered the best bank collateral, he replied, ‘CHARACTER!”
LEO J. MUIR
In the shallowest minds are rooted the deepest prejudices.
T. T. MUNGER
Youth is an opportunity to do something and become somebody.
JOHN MURRAY
A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book an go on poisoning people’s minds for any length of time.
MUTCHMORE
Next to a good soul-stirring prayer is a good laugh.
NAPOLEON
Imagination rules the world.
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
JOHN NEAL
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
FRIEDERICH W. NIETZSCHE
In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.
E. NOTT
Men cannot be well educated without the Bible.
ROBERT ORBEN
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all credit cards.
O’REILLY
Doubt is brother devil to despair.
O’SHEA
Character development is the great, if not the only aim of education.
OVID
If you would marry suitably marry your equal.
Alternate rest and labor endure long.
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
OWEN
He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to live as he prays.
THOMAS PAINE
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
PALEY
Manners are minor morals.
E. A. PARK
A church-going people are apt to be a law-abiding people.
THEODORE PARKER
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
Thought convinces; feeling persuades. Thought sees beauty; emotion feels it.
The books which help you most are those which make you think.
DOLLY PARTON
If you want to enjoy a rainbow you gotta have rain.
PASCAL
If you wish other people to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
PHIL PASTORET
A few people get up bright and early; most of us just get up early.
GEORGE PEABODY
Education is a debt due from the present to future generations.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
Give your brain a shampoo every morning. Get your day started right mentally and it will continue right.
WILLIAM PENN
Love, therefore labor; if thou shouldst not want it for food, thou mayest for physic.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Love is wholesome to the body and good for the mind.; it prevents the fruit of idleness.
Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
PERSEUS
He conquers who endures.
J. PETIT-SENN
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a knowledge of the Bible.
PLATO
I shall take care so to live that nobody will believe slander about me.
PLINY
He picked something valuable out of everything he read.
PLUTARCH
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous; what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required, and necessities are not wanting.
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
The measure of a man’s life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
POINCELOT
In noble hearts the feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion.
Good taste is the flower of good sense.
POPE
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
Strength of mind is the result of exercise, not rest.
Truth shines brighter clad in verse.
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is seldom found.
JANE PORTER
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared
NOAH PORTER
Remember that what you believe will depend very much upon what you are. & vice-versa!
No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
HUGH PRATHER
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
PRIOR
The end must justify the means.
MARCEL PROUST
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
E. B. PUSEY
By doing our duty, we learn to do it.
Practice in life whatever you pray for, and God will give it to you more abundantly.
PYTHAGORAS
Above all things reverence yourself.
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
QUARLES
He that has no cross will have no crown.
Make thy recreation servant to business, lest thou become a slave to recreation.
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
CHARLES READ
Example is a contagious behavior.
MAX REINHART
Always act the part–and you can become whatever you wish to become.
RUTH E RENKEL
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere.
RICHTER
No one is so much alone in the world as a deny-er of God.
WILL ROGERS
We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
JOHN RUSKIN
The greatest reward for our toil is not the wages we receive but what we become by it.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
WILBERT E. SCHEER
If only we could learn that tolerance is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
WALTER SCOTT
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
SECKER
He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
SENECA
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
A well governed appetite is a great part of liberty.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
God divided man into men, that they might help each other.
We are born subject to God and to obey Him is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
Would thou subject all things to thyself? Subject thyself to thy reason.
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well doing is, in itself, ample reward.
Economy is in itself a source of great revenue.
A good man is influenced by God, Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him; so it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.
Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
J. P. SENN
Marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest of life; with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
SHAKESPEARE
(See on the Internet www.wisdomofshakespeare.blogspot.com 4 pages of one-line quotations.)
SHAFTESBURY
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
L ife is not a “brief candle”. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as bright as possible before handing it on to future generations.
SIMMONS
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Progress–the onward stride of God.
SOCRATES
Without labor nothing prospers.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.
He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.
I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
Whatever I do for society benefits me as a member of society.
Not only is he idle who is doing nothing, but he that might be better employed.
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are both immortal and divine.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
He is richest who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
Whatever I do for society, benefits me as a member of society.
SOLOMON
He who walketh with wise men shall be wise.
A companion of fools shall be destroyed.
The book of Proverbs:
SOPHOCLES
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
SOUTH
Much reading is like much eating,–wholly useless without digestion.
SPRING
High aims and lofty purposes are the wings of the soul aiding it to mount to heaven
There is no religion without morality, and no morality without religion.
SPURGEON
As sure as God puts his children in the furnace of affliction, he will be with them in it.
Poverty is hard but debt is horrible.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Idleness is the root of all evil.
ABEL STEVENS
Genius can never despise labor.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
BILLY SUNDAY
Try praising your wife, even if it frightens her at first.
SIR PHILIP SYDNEY
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life.
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
Do what you can.
Hundreds would never have known want, if they had not first known waste.
STANFORD
Heaven must be in me before I can be in heaven.
STANISLAUS
Good humor is the health of the soul; sadness is its poison.
STERN
Free thinkers are generally those who never think at all.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy.
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind
SWIFT
He that calls a man ungrateful, sums up all the evil of which one can be guilty.
PUBLIUS SYRIUS
Pardon others often; thyself never.
Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them.
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
THOMAS SZASZ
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
TALMADGE
Sin may open bright as the morning but it will end dark as night.
H. TAYLOR
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Temptation rarely comes during working hours. It is in their leisure time that most men are made or marred.
JEREMY TAYLOR
Idleness is the burial of a living man.
SIR W. TEMPLE
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
A man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
TENNYSON
It seems to me it is only noble to be good–Kind hearts are more than coronets.
A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
However it be, it seems to me, ‘Tis only noble to be good.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
THACKERAY
Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
THEOPHRASTUS
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
DAVID THOMAS
Happiness is in action, and every power is intended for action; human happiness, therefore, can only be complete as all the powers have their full and legitimate play
THOMSON
It will always do to change for the better.
The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
THOREAU
Be not merely good; be good for something.
JAMES THURBER
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
BEN TILLET
God help the man who won’t marry until he finds a perfect woman. And God help him still more if he finds her.
E. TURNER
I have no secret of success but hard work.
MARK TWAIN
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate; when he can’t afford it and when he can.
HENRY VAN DYKE
It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
VIRGIL
Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things.
VOLTAIRE
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him..
Labor rids us of three great evils–irksomeness, vice and poverty.
We can’t always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.
Prejudice is the reason of fools.
By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.
IZAAK WALTON
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
H. L. WAYLAND
Universal suffrage, without universal education, would be a curse.
J. WESLESY
Never be first in the fashion nor the last in it.
WHATELY
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
E. P. WHIPPLE
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
WALT WHITMAN
I never could explain why I love anyone or any thing.
FREDERICK WILCOX
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep you foot on first.
WILLMOT
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith.–Ignorance is always incredulous.
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
WORDSWORTH
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
M. WREN
Ability is a poor man’s wealth.
YOUNG
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
ZIMMERMAN
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much by gaudy attire.
JOHANN ZIMMERMAN
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
ZOROASTER
When you doubt–abstain.
MORE PROVERBS-----ANONYMOUS
Every minute starts an hour.
The only people who never make mistakes are those who never do anything.
A man finds happiness only by walking his own path.
God tries you with a little, to see what you’d do with a lot.
Ignorance is the mother of superstition.
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible effort or self-sacrifice.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way.
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
Luck is a very good word if you put a P in front of it.
A Christian life is the best evidence of the divinity of Christ and the existence of his Father.
As a cure for despondency–count your blessings and thank God for them.
To think and feel we are able is often to be so. Act as if. As a man thinketh, he becomes.
Cultivate enthusiasm. It will stimulate all your days and bring success and happiness, give energy and help in many ways.. Whenever or whatever you read with enthusiasm your comprehension and retention are greater.
Avoid evil as you would avoid the punishment of evil.
Teach your children by example. Be the kind of a person you would like them to be.
Experience is the father of wisdom.
You worship in vain without work.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you have not planted.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Happiness is found along the way, not at the end of the road.
You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile.
A good marriage is one in which there are more “put-up-withs” than “put-downs”.
True humility is not without dignity and self-respect. It is willingness to accept instruction, to learn, to admit and repent of ignorance or error, to hear both sides of a question, to do unto others as you wold have others do unto you.
A wise man knows everything; a shrewd man know everybody.
Don’t quote others: think for yourselves.–Be creative!
Next to slavery of substance is the slavery of sin or bad habits
Sleep is the best medicine.
The person who rows the boat generally doesn’t have time to rock it.
Children may tear up a house, but they seldom break up a home.
Tolerance is true humility. It is also true nobility.
Nothing is more reasonable and cheap than good manners.
For a peaceful and happy marriage marry someone with your own beliefs, goals, standards, race.
A smile makes happy the plainest face.
To enjoy a good day , wear a smile, sing a happy song.
Sorrow’s best cure is prayer to God.
Men and women are what happened to little boys and girls.
It is better to build boys than to repair men.
A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
When saving for old age, be sure to put away a few pleasant thoughts.
Ignorance is the mother of superstition.
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible effort or self-sacrifice.
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
Luck is a very good word if you put a P in front of it.
A Christian life is the best evidence of the divinity of Christ and the existence of his Father.
As a cure for despondency–count your blessings and thank God for them.
To think and feel we are able is often to be so. Act as if. As a man thinketh, he becomes.
Cultivate enthusiasm. It will stimulate all your days and bring success and happiness, give energy and help in many ways.. Whenever or whatever you read with enthusiasm your comprehension and retention are greater.
Avoid evil as you would avoid the punishment of evil.
Teach your children by example. Be the kind of a person you would like them to be.
Experience is the father of wisdom.
You worship in vain without work.
True humility is not without dignity and self-respect. It is willingness to accept instruction, to learn, to admit and repent of ignorance or error, to hear both sides of a question, to do unto others as you wold have others do unto you.
Don’t quote others: think for yourselves.–Be creative!
Next to slavery of substance is the slavery of sin or bad habits
Sleep is the best medicine.
Tolerance is true humility. It is also true nobility.
Nothing is more reasonable and cheap than good manners.
A smile makes happy the plainest face.
To enjoy a good day , wear a smile, sing a happy song.
Sorrow’s best cure is prayer to God.
The consciousness of clean linen is, in and of itself, a source of moral strength, second only to that of a clean conscience.
Will atheists and evolutionists please tell me who put into birds the instinct that enables them to fly thousands of miles south in fall and return unerringly to their former habitat to nest in the spring?
