Saturday, November 20, 2010

Quotations




Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
W.M.Lewis

“Talk to the right man at the right time in the right place.”

“All is fair in love and war.”

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.”

"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow."

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country..." J.F.Kennedy

"What we do for ourselves dies with us - what we do for others in the world remains and is immortal" Albert Pine

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." E. Roosevelt

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Adams

"A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs." Paul Newman

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in
times of great moral crisis maintained their neutrality."
Dante

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing
that ever has." Margaret Mead

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Einstein

"Opportunity is missed by most people because
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."Thomas Edison

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King, Jr.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

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