from "Old Collection"
Had this packet of quotes for graduation. Not sure if a teacher put it together or what.
"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despot can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." ~Addison
"Grow or die!" ~George Land
"The best intelligence test is what we do with out leisure." ~Dr. Laurence J. Peter
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." ~Don Herold
"Wise men learn by others' mistakes; fools by their own." ~H.G. Bohn
"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is." ~Rollo May
"Being bored is an insult to oneself." ~Jules Renard
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." ~Diogenes
"What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly." ~Thomas Paine
"Whoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future." ~Euripedes
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~Geo. Santayana
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly." ~Richard Bach
"You learn as much by writing as you do by reading." ~Eric Hoffer
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
~Twain
"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? Good God, we would also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune and distress us deeply like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside of us." ~Kafka
"Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
Then with cracked hands that ached
From labor in the weekday weather made
Banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call;
Then slowly I would rise and dress
Fearing the chronic angers of that house.
Speaking indifferently to him
who had driven out the cold
And polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
Of love's austere and lonely offices?" ~Robert Hayden
"One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge." ~Apothegm of Navada
"This world us a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." ~Horace Walpole
"Rather than love, than money, than fame; give me truth." ~Thoreau
"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully ignorant."
~Doug Larson
"...a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." ~Churchill
"Education is what is left when the facts are forgotten." ~John Dewey
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
~Wm. James
"You drew a circle that shut me out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout
But love and I had wit to win
We drew a circle and took you in." ~Edwin Markham
"Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is subject to proof." ~JFK
"We should wear our velvet next to our skin - that is, we should be the most amiable and agreeable to those of our own family." ~Joubert
"When you turn the corner
And run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All that corners that are left." ~Langston Hughes
"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." ~Vermont Proverb
"A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out." ~Laurence Peter
"Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded on to a disconcerting, catechism on the nature of true knowledge." ~G.M. Trevelyan
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." ~Toynbee
"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."
~Thomas Macaulay
"I quote others only the better to express myself." ~Montaigne
"The wayfarer,
Perceiving the pathway to truth;
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds.
'Ha,' he said,
'I see that none has passed here
In a long time.'
Later he saw that each weed
Was a singular knife.
'Well,' he mumbled at last,
'Doubtless there are other roads.'" ~Stephen Crane
"Politeness acts as a guard over the rough edges of our character." ~Joubert
"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." ~JFK
"Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." ~Bernard Baruch
"Insist on yourself. Never imitate." ~Emerson
"I am not like anyone I have ever seen; I dare believe that I am not made like anyone in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different." ~Rousseau
"I am a part of all I have read." ~John Kieran
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." ~Franklin P. Jones
"Some demonstrated courage through their unyielding devotion to absolute principle. Others demonstrated courage through their acceptance of compromise, through their advocacy of conciliation, through their willingness to replace conflict with cooperation." ~JFK
"Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." ~Barry Goldwater
"Who am I to scorn or despise or be cruel to the least and meanest beings, when that being may be a hero unclaimed, and I, like others, too blind to see radiance." ~Gary Jennings
"Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands; but like seafaring man, if you choose them as your guides and follow them, you will reach your destiny." ~Carl Schurz
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." ~Cicero
"Truly great men and women are never terrifying. Their humility puts you at ease. If a very important person frightens you, he is not great; he only thinks he is." ~Elizabeth Goudge
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke
"Be not simply good - be good for something." ~Thoreau
"Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds." ~Locke
"I am a part of all that I have met,
Yet all experience is an arch where thro'
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move." ~Tennyson
"The real generosity to the future is in giving one's everything to the present." ~Camus
"What a man can be, he must be." ~Abraham Maslow
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." ~Michelangelo
"You are either part of the solution or part of the problem." ~Eldridge Cleaver
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." ~Truman
"Good order is the foundation of all good things." ~Edmund Burke
"One can acquire everything in solitude except character." ~Heraclitus
"I have never been poor, only broke.
Being poor is a frame of mind;
Being broke is only a temporary situation." ~Mike Todd
"It is not wealth nor ancestry, but honorable conduct and a noble disposition that make men great."
~Ovid
"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed." ~Sara Teasdale
"Let character be formed by poetry, established by the laws of right behavior and perfected by music." ~Confucius
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." ~Lincoln
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." ~Horace
"Write nothing, say nothing, think nothing which you do not believe is true before God." ~Joubert
"It is not who is right, but what is right that is important." ~Thomas Huxley
"Where no hope is left, is left no fear." ~Milton
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet go out to meet it." ~Thucydides
"Men are not great or heroic because they are faultless. They are great and heroic because they dare suffer and achieve and serve." ~Hamilton Mable
"Show me the man you honor. I know by that symptom better than any other what kind of man you are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is, what kind of a man you long inexpressibly to be." ~Thomas Carlyle
"Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." ~Geo. Washington
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person.
Having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out just as they are
Chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them
Keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away." ~Craik
"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true." ~Polish proverb
"If the people in inferior positions do not have confidence in those above them, government of the people is an impossibility." ~Confucius
"In a democracy agreement is not essential, participation is." ~Gene Brown
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." ~Caskie Stinnett
"The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect paid to wealth." ~Georges Sand
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." ~Twain
"A lie cannot endure forever." ~Carlyle
"I am alone with the beating of my heart." ~Lui Chi
"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." ~Voltaire
"I shall pass through this world but once.
If, therefore, there be any kindness
I can show or any good thing
I can do, let me do it now,
For I shall not pass this way again." ~Etienne de Grellet
"As an old man walked the beach at dawn, he noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. the answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun. 'But the beach goes on for miles, and there are millions of starfish,' countered the other. 'How can your effort make any difference?' The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to the safety in the waves. 'It makes a difference to this one,' he said." ~Anonymous
"The loss of illusions is the death of the soul." ~Chamfort
"The world either breaks or hardens the heart." ~Chamfort
"My candle's burning at both ends,
It may not last the night,
But, oh, my foes, and oh, my friend,
It sheds such wondrous light." ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." ~Harriet B. Stowe
"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had." ~R.L. Stevenson
"Make it a point to do something every that you don't want to do." ~Twain
"The mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding...as difficult to subdue as the wind." ~Bhagavad-Gita
"There is no foe so deadly to truth as complete intellectual assurance. Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well." ~Edith Hamilton
"You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life, but they'd probably assassinate you. You have to make up your own rules and then stick to that. That's not as easy as it sounds. There's bound to be somebody trying to reform you. But don't let them! If you can't make seventy by a comfortable route, don't go." ~Mark Twain
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasure, for in the dew of little things the heart find its morning and is refreshed." ~Gibran
"One does not make friends; one recognizes them." ~Garth Henricks
"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next." ~Helen Keller
"Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice." ~Lord Haisham
"Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future." ~JFK
"When I can look life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise.
Life will have given me truth
And taken in exchange - my youth." ~Sara Teasdale
"When asked on her deathbed if she had the answer, Gertrude Stein answered, 'What is the question?'"
"Something of home that is not home is found in the home of a friend." ~Sir Wm. Temple
"Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest." ~Aeschylus
"Your being has caused
an indelible line
through the crimson shadows
of my past;
Over the silent
white and blue days;
Into,
Merging,
And finally blending
with the deep dark quiet
mountains
of my life."
~Donna Whitewing
"This book has extended to a greater length than I expected or desired. But the reader or hearer who finds pleasure in it will not think it long." ~St. Augustine
