Jean de la Bruyere Famous Quotes
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.
"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them."
"That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect."
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less."
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed
"There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."
"There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others."
"Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy."
Jean de la Bruyere Quotations
"Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."
Sophocles
"A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67."
Norman R Augustine
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle
Henry David Thoreau
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.
Ron Weber
I am a citizen of the world.
Laertius Diogenes
"If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him."
Thomas Fuller
"O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder."
William Shakespeare
"The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."
Tom Stoppard