Some Serious Ones

These ones gleaned from my local community newspaper (Comment News).
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. (Sonya Bulman).
Its nice to be important, but its important to be nice. (S.C. Thomas)
You can't reason with an unreasonable person. (Jan Mangano)
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Don't worry, all is well today. (E. Bainbridge)
So far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Albert Einstein: Geometrie und Erfahrung)
A knight is sworn to valour
His heart knows only virtue
His blade defends the helpless
His might upholds the weak
His word speaks only truth
His wrath undoes the wicked
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people. (Jon Wynne Tyson)
A friend is someone who allows you to have your own truths.
It is better to regret something you did, rather than to regret something you didn't do.
If you decide not to choose then you've already made the wrong choice!
The greatest possession you have is the 24 hours in front of you!
I'd rather do something and fail than do nothing and succeed!
Education and intelligence aren't the same thing!
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularyly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. (Franklin P. Jones)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great. (Mark Twain)
Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment. (Karen Crockett)
The problem with the rat race is even if you win, you're still a rat. (Lily Tomlin)
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. (Hugh Downs)
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
When you are standing on the edge of a cliff a step forward is not progress. (Grandfather)
You wouldn't care what people thought of you if you realized how seldom they do.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Liars should have good memories. (Proverb)
Man punishes the action, but God the intention. (Proverb)
Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
To pass something on to another is not to lose it, but to invest it.
Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
I know there are lots of ethical people out there. As for the others, Karma never forgets. (Barakas)
Relating to anniversaries:
 You can count the years. Or you can show her how much they count.
Ancient Greeks on Happiness.
 Happiness is: The exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
War determines not who's right, but who's left.


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Created: 23/08/98 Updated: 24/08/98
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