Athenus Famous Quotes
Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with.
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'"
"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."
"For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own."
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
Athenus Quotations
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Eugene Kennedy
"Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
Matrix The
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
David Friedman
Thought is the fountain of speech.
Chrysippus
"I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway."
Othal Brand
"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel."
George Du Maurier
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings."
Jimmy Carter
"The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us."
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter