The Seven Sages Famous Quotes
Know thyself.
Do not speak ill of the dead.
The Seven Sages Quotations
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost
There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.
Ezra Loomis Pound
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Gen Joseph Stilwell
"Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established."
Confucius
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter
"One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world."
Andrew Schneider
"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first."
Harry S Truman
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
Margaret Halsey
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol