Youth, English Proverb

An idle youth，a needy age.

- English Proverb

少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲

- 英國俗談

Appearance, Aaron Hotchner from Criminal Minds

Aaron Hotchner: Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, "Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

- Aaron Hotchner, Criminal Minds [4x04 Paradise (Oct 22, 2008)]

Appearance, Phaedrus

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

- Phaedrus (15BC-50AD, fabulist)

Money, Chinese Proverb

金钱万能 [jīnqiánwànnéng]

- 中國俗談

Money talks.

- Chinese Proverb

almighty dollar

Appearance, Tom Robbins

Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving.

- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

Love, Sigmund Freud

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Beauty, Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

― Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Attitudes, Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

War, Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

War, Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Rejoicing, Book of Psalms

This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice in it and be glad.

- Psalms 118:24

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Success, American Proverb

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.

- American Proverb

Paradise, Aaron Hotchner

Aaron Hotchner: Thomas Fuller wrote, "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."

- Aaron Hotchner, Criminal Minds [4x04 Paradise (Oct 22, 2008)]

Paradise, Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

God, William Langland

Man proposes， God disposes.

- William Langland (1332-1386)

The law of work

The law of work

The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in money, also.

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Success will come naturally when you work on something you enjoy. When a team is composed of people who enjoy office work, the entire office will benefit from individuals finding their own happiness and wealth. Work must be something one can lay everything on the line for- something challenging yet enjoyable.

Appearance, Cal Ripken Jr.

Less and grayer hair.

- Cal Ripken, Jr. (1960- ), baseball player, describing how he has changed over the course of his consecutive games record

Love, Joan Crawford

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Joan Crawford (1904-1977)

Beauty, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)

Attitudes, Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

War, Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)

Money, Western Proverb

Every man has his price.

- Western Proverb

Ingrid Bergman as Maria from For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943)

Maria: I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

- Ingrid Bergman as Maria from For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943)

Honesty, Western Proverb

Honesty is the best policy.

- Western Proverb

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References

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

- Sir Philip Sidney (1554~1586)

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

- William Shakespeare (1564~1616)

Honest men fear neither light nor dark

- Thomas Fuller (1608~1661)

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742~1799)

Arts, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Fate, Marcus Aurelius

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

- Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

Beauty, Richelle Mead

Richelle Mead

Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful.
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

― Richelle Mead (1976- ), Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy

Attitudes, André Gide

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

- André Gide (1869-1951)

The illiterate of the 21st century

The illiterate of the 21st century

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

The effort and will to learn something new is far more important than existing knowledge. In a society where knowledge is constantly changing, if one stops learning, regardless of their age, they will have fallen behind the times. On the other hand, if one constantly learns and soaks up new information, they will be young and up-to-date; regardless of their age. People only start getting “older” when they stop learning new things.

Advice, Anthony Lake

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."

- Anthony Lake, national security advisor, at University of Massachusettes, Amhurst, Graduation 1995