The Last Word

Friday, November 4, 2005

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
—Arthur Brisbane

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
—Confucius

A man's character is his fate.
—Heraclitus

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
—Norman Thomas

The unexamined life is not worth living for man.
—Socrates

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
—Abraham Lincoln

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
—Winston Churchill

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
—Baruch Spinoza

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw

Truth exists; only lies are invented.
—Georges Braque

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
—T. H. Huxley

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
—Cecil B. DeMille

Things do not change; we change.
—Henry David Thoreau

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
—Plutarch

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
—Winston Churchill

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
—Benjamin Disraeli

Biography lends to death a new terror.
—Oscar Wilde

As was his language so was his life.
—Seneca

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
—Theodore Roosevelt

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
—James Thurber

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
—Homer

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
—H. L. Mencken

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
—Dwight Eisenhower

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education from a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
—Albert Einstein

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
—Helen Keller

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes!
—J.M. Barrie

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