Quotable Quotes Part II

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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

 

[vgane]

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

 

[vgane]

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

 

[vgane]

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

 

[vgane]

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) ​

 

[Raji Ram]

A friend to all is a friend to none. .........

Now I know why there are different JAlrA groups in our forum!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Often we find that
wisdom dries up the heart.
Philosophy dries up the head.
Greatness dries up the ability to communicate.
But truly great people are always humble and
truly great things are always simple.

More than practical wisdom, it is the unmitigated
knowledge that often dries up the heart.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

you don't have to go very far from the forum to verify this truth.
Actually the person is a friend to everyone but no one is his/her friend!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

Living within one's means is a great virtue!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) ​

The true purpose of education is
to teach us to tolerate things / persons
which /whom we really have no need to tolerate.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

All my funny stories, poems and posts

may be viewed /read/ enjoyed

without dilution by the other posts in

The World of Words

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Patience

Patience is something you admire in the driver :car:
behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Mac Mccleary.

Be patient my soul:
Thou has suffered worse than this. :tsk:
Homer.

Beware the fury of a patient man. :fear:
John Dryden

 

[C RAVI]

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou (192

 

[C RAVI]

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

-La Bruyere

 

[C RAVI]

"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more."

-Jules Renard

 

[C RAVI]

"Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands."

-Japanese Proverb

 

[C RAVI]

"Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him."

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

[C RAVI]

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[C RAVI]

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

-William Shakespeare

 

[C RAVI]

"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others."

-Solomon Ibn Gabriol

 

[C RAVI]

"The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart."

-William Hazlitt

 

[C RAVI]

"Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road."

-Charles Caleb Colton

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou (192

Maya Angelou


Maya Angelou is an American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years. Wikipedia
Born: April 4, 1928 (age 84), St. Louis
Full name: Marguerite Ann Johnson
Education: George Washington High School
Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom, Spingarn Medal, More
son: Guy Johnson


I had the good fortune of seeing her during a convocation in 2002!
I was awestruck by her speech and the respect shown to her. :clap2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

-La Bruyere

That explains why only the
mentally deranged persons are always happy!
They neither think nor feel!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more."

-Jules Renard

Many finer things including self realization
are to be felt personally and not understood.