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“The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
Buddha
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
Buddha
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”
Phyllis Diller
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.”
Horace
“Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.”
Horace
“The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.”
Horace
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
Plato
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
Plato
“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”
Plato
“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.”
Plato
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
Coco Chanel
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”
Karl Marx
“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
Aristotle
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
Euripides
“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”
Euripides
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
Salvador Dali
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
Salvador Dali
“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”
Salvador Dali
“Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.”
Honore de Balzac
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
Aldous Huxley
“The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency”
Aesop
“Slow but steady wins the race.”
Aesop
“Plodding wins the race.”
Aesop
“The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.”
Aesop
“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
Lord Byron
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
