Wise quotes

“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.” Mignon McLaughlin

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” Mencius

“Sincerity is the way to heaven.” Mencius

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” Mencius

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.” Thomas Merton

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” Alan Alexander Milne

“Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.” Wilson Mizner

“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.” Wilson Mizner

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” Michel de Montaigne

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” Michel de Montaigne

“A good example is far better than a good precept.” Dwight Lyman Moody

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” Christopher Morley

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” Christopher Morley

“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” George Jean Nathan

“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.” George Jean Nathan

“What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.” George Jean Nathan

“All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.” Reinhold Niebuhr

“Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.” Richard Nixon

“Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.” Henri Nouwen

“Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.” Gilbert Parker

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” George Smith Patton

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” William Penn

“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.” William Penn

“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.” Plutarch

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Alexander Pope

“I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.” Joan Rivers

“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.” Joan Rivers

“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.” Will Rogers

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” Jim Rohn