Edmund S Morgan Famous Quotes
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.
Edmund S Morgan Quotations
"If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup."
Turkish Proverb
"When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit."
Unknown
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Publilius Syrus
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero
"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them."
Homer
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford