Advice, Shammai

"Make learning your business, speak little, do much, and receive everyone kindly."
Shammai

It is well, when judging a friend, ... (Arnold Bennett)

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

- Arnold Bennett

Speak, Benjamin Franklin

"Speak little, do much."
Benjamin Franklin

Measure not the work ... (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (an English Poet, 1806-1861)

Attitude, Amy Tan

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
Amy Tan

Education has produced ... (George Macauley Trevelyan)

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

- George Macauley Trevelyan (a British historian; 1876-1962)

The honest poor can ... (G. K. Chesterton)

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

- G. K. Chesterton

Pleasure in the job (Aristotle)

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle (a Greek philosopher and polymath; 384BC-322BC)

Laughter is ... (Victor Borge)

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

- Victor Borge (a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist; 1909-2000)

Life, Jeff Davidson

"If you're too busy to enjoy life, you're too busy."
Jeff Davidson

Trying to define yourself is ... (Alan Watts)

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your teeth."

- Alan Watts (a British philosopher, writer, and speaker; 1915-1973)

Fashions, Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist

Regrets are ... (Margaret Culkin Banning)

"Regrets are as personal as fingerprints."

- Margaret Culkin Banning

Govern a family as ... (Chinese Proverb)

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.

- Chinese Proverb

The most beautiful thing (Albert Einstein)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

- Albert Einstein

Work banishes ... (Goethe)

Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice and poverty.

- Goethe (a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath; 1749-1832)

Religion·Faith, George Meredith

He who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

- George Meredith, OM (1828–1909)

Advice, John Dryden

"Beware the fury of a patient man."
John Dryden

Yield, Aesop

"Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield."
Aesop

Always behave like a duck (Jacob Braude)

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

- Jacob Braude

Although the world is full of suffering ... (Helen Adams Keller)

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

- Helen Adams Keller (an American author, political activist, and lecturer; 1880-1968)

No human being can ... (Henry Graham Greene)

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

- Henry Graham Greene (an English author, playwright and literary critic; 1904-1991)

America is ... (George Clemenceau)

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.

- George Clemenceau

Every mother generally hopes that ... (Anonymous)

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

- Anonymous

Never moon ... (Mike Binder)

Never moon a werewolf.

- Mike Binder

A good fight (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the 32nd President of the United States, 1882–1945)

I am about to ... (Dominique Bouhours)

I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.

- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words

Better to understand a little than ... (Anonymous)

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

- Anonymous

Every flower must ... (Anonymous)

Every flower must grow through dirt.

- Anonymous

Compromise: (Anonymous)

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

- Anonymous

Nobody ever died of ... (Max Beerbohm)

Nobody ever died of laughter.

- Max Beerbohm

Love and stoplights (Sesame Street)

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

- Sesame Street, U.S. children's television show

If we do not maintain Justice ... (Francis Bacon)

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

- Francis Bacon

Happiness, George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics

Before you find a handsome prince ... (American Proverb)

You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.

- American Proverb

Organic chemistry is ... (Mike Adams)

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

- Mike Adams

Not only is there no God, but ... (Woody Allen)

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

- Woody Allen