philosophy of life quotes

Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige



Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. ~Margaret Mead



There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. ~Pen Densham, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves



There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~Alfred Austin



There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. ~Ben Hecht



If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. ~Henny Youngman



I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire



He is every other inch a gentleman. ~Rebecca West



The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello



In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe



I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ~Arthur Godfrey



Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley



Education is the transmission of civilization. ~Ariel and Will Durant



Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ~Chinese Proverb



A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown



People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around. ~Susan Easterly



I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. ~George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys



You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Ghandi