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Religion

The holy man, though he be distr…

22 Sep , 2009  

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean. Pandita, Saskya

Success

The highest reward for a person’…

22 Sep , 2009  

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. Ruskin

Virtue

The love of economy is the root …

22 Sep , 2009  

The love of economy is the root of all virtue. Shaw, George Bernard

Honor

The louder he talked of his hono…

22 Sep , 2009  

The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons. Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Death

The life of the dead is placed i…

22 Sep , 2009  

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Cicero

Pain

The mind is seldom quickened to …

22 Sep , 2009  

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. Johnson, Samuel

Advice

The methodological advice to int…

22 Sep , 2009  

The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent […]

Success

The men who succeed are the effi…

22 Sep , 2009  

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. Casson, Herbert N.

Success

The meek shall inherit the earth…

22 Sep , 2009  

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights. Getty, J. Paul

Government

The marvel of all history is the…

22 Sep , 2009  

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. Borah, William E.

Marriage

The married are those who have t…

22 Sep , 2009  

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Heilbrun, Carolyn

Risk

The married are those who have t…

22 Sep , 2009  

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Heilbrun, Carolyn