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“You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.”
John Barrymore
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
Buddha
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
Buddha
“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
Buddha
“The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.”
Buddha
“To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.”
Marilyn Monroe
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
Phyllis Diller
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Abraham Lincoln
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.”
Horace
“Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.”
Horace
“I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.”
Horace
“He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.”
Horace
“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”
Plato
“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
Plato
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”
Plato
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
Plato
“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
Plato
“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
Plato
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
Plato
“The wisest have the most authority.”
Plato
“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
Plato
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
Coco Chanel
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
Aristotle
“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
