more wisdom mcnuggets

fulfillment consists in activity. it is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

A stout heart breaks bad luck

-Cervantes

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

-Einstein

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man without trials.

-Confucius

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

-Confucius

The young man knows the rules, the old man knows the exceptions.

-Holmes

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

-Ben Franklin

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

-Ben Franklin

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

-Einstein

Three marks of superior man: Being virtuous, free from anxiety. Being wise, free from perplexity. Being brave, free from fear.

-Confucius

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

-Schopenhauer

Weakness on both sides is the motto of all quarrels.

-Voltaire

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

-Goethe

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay down to bleed awhile. Then I'll rise and fight again.

-John Dryden

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

-Pope

An explanation of cause is not justification by reason.

-CS Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one; gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turning, without milestones or signpost.

-CS Lewis

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

-Henry Ward Beecher

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

-Keats

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

-Frederick Douglass

The man who will use his skill and imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.

-Ford

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, with loads of learned lumber in his head.

-Pope

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

-Hemmingway

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

-Confucius