There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

~ Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE) 

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

~ Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE) 

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

~ Thomas Edison, inventor (1847-1931) 

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

~ George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950) 

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832) 

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

~ Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE) 

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

~ Erma Bombeck, author (1927-1996) 

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.

~ Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) 

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

~ Heraclitus, philosopher (500 BCE)

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

~ John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704) 

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

~ Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

~ John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704) 

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; 

Weep, and you weep alone.

For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,

But has trouble enough of its own.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919) 

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: / Who would search for pearls must dive below.

~ John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631-1700) 

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. 

~ Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)