Jacob August Riis Famous Quotes
"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
Jacob August Riis Quotations
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
Thomas Szasz
"Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself."
Swami Sivanada
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
Moliere
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
Quentin Crisp
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.
Paul Aubuchon
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it."
Margaret Fuller
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
Denis Watley
"I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations."
Samuel Johnson