Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2005/11/04/the_last_word.php
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