Irish Proverb Famous Quotes
It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
"Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying."
It is not a fish until it is on the bank.
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."
Better be quarreling than lonesome.
A dimple in the chin a devil within.
Every invalid is a doctor.
All sins cast long shadows.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb Quotations
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
Cicero
"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
W Somerset Maugham
"My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger."
Aldous Huxley
"It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love."
Sir Arthur Helps
"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."
Thomas Arnold Bennett
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix
"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie"
Albert Einstein
"In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life-the strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother."
Katherine D Ortega