Lieber von einer Hand, die wir nicht drücken möchten, geschlagen, als von ihr gestreichelt werden. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“If you keep your mouth shut, the flies won’t get in” – Spanish Proverb
“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom” – Francis …
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” – Abraham Lincoln
“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner” – English Proverb
“A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they …
“Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.” – …
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“You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.” – Phillip C. McGraw
“Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by” – Andre Maurois
“When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best” – Latin Proverb
“It’s a troublesome world. All the people who’re in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping …
“If wishes were fishes we’d all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we’d all ride.” – Doug Horton
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who …
“A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.” – Wayne Dyer
“A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.” …
“Oh! dreadful is the check – intense the agony – / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When …
“When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you’re bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished …
“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen” – Philip Wylie
“Good advice” is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so littleeffect……” – Carl Gustav Jung
“Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love” – Turkish Proverb
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” – Spanish Proverb
“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more …
“If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a …
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!” – George Carlin
“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him” – Thomas Hardy
“We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.” – French Proverb
“I wanted to pick up at least two more shots, especially after those consecutive birdies, in such good weather conditions. I think I putted well …
“A kind word warms a man throughout three winters.” – Turkish Proverb
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.” – Maya Angelou
“The sign brings customers” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Love and a cough cannot be hid.” – George Herbert
“Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.” – Thomas Hardy
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus
“Better die with honor than live with shame.” – English Proverb
