Ethel Watts Mumford Famous Quotes
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford Quotations
The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
Rita Mae Brown
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Bokonon
"All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation"
Bhagavad Gita
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
Plato
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."
Siddha Nagarjuna
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
John Kenneth Galbraith
To ask the hard question is simple.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Feel for others--in your pocket.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift