Greek Proverb Famous Quotes
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything.
"Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom."
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
A heart that loves is always young.
"Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."
"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue."
No need to teach an eagle to fly.
"Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults."
Where there is a sea there are pirates.
"To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it."
The beginning is the half of every action.
The net of the sleeper catches fish.
All things good to know are difficult to learn.
It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
Greek Proverb Quotations
To live outside the law you must be honest.
Bob Dylan
I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
Louise Nevelson
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.
Howard Hendricks
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay."
Rudyard Kipling
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
"It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."
Jerry Garcia
"Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear."
Blaise Pascal