Marriage Quotes

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself"

~Harvey Fierstein

Wise Man

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

~ Francis Bacon

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."

~ Casey Stengel

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Accuracy

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

~ Tryon Edwards

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."

~ Voltaire

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

" Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. "

~ Edgar Watson Howe

“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.”

~ Ronald Reagan

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."

~ Mark Twain

Accuracy

"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"

~ Paul Watzlawick

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Accuracy

"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."

~David Hume

The future depends on what we do in the present.

- Mahatma Gandhi

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
~ T.E. Lawrence

George Bernard Shaw - "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

~ Cyril Connolly

"We are at liberty to create fresh karma that leads toward either our progress or our downfall"

~ Mahasi Sayadaw, Theravada Buddist teacher

"According to the seed that's sown, so is the fruit you read therefrom. Doer of good will gather good. Doer of evil, evil reaps..."

~ Samyutta Nikaya

"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong...on the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, (in his essay Compensation)

Education

"Only the educated are free."

~ Epictetus

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom;
and with all thy getting, get understanding.

~ Proverbs 4:7

Truth

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."

~ Albert Schweitzer

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

~ Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything"

~Arabian Proverb

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

~ William Feather