Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 52

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man''s self.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it''s moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Only the educated are free.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Now-a-days women don''t hire domestic help-they marry it.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.