Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Author:
Shel Silverstein
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Justice   
Laws   
Philosophical   
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Humor   
Time   
Philosophical   
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Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Silence   
American Presidential Quotes   
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The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Freedom   
Justice   
Discrimination   
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Author:
Socrates
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
Anger   
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Subject:
Words   
Silence   
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Wisdom   
Past   
Future   
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Mankind   
Unity   
World   
Work: Following the Equator
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
War   
Peace   
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You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Judgment   
Opinions   
Youth   
Work: Dialogues, Theatetus
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Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Peace   
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Subject:
Marriage   
Men   
Women   
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Author:
John F. Kennedy
Subject:
Wisdom   
Fear   
American Presidential Quotes   
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Author:
Helen Keller
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Motivational   
Work   
World   
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
American Presidential Quotes   
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I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Wisdom   
Religion   
Politics   
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