Words of The Wise

A few great quotes I borrowed from Liz Callihan’s blog.

Life

  • Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
    – Christopher Morley

Friendship

  • Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
    – Aristotle
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
    – George Washington
  • We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
    – Thucydides
  • The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
    – Walt Whitman
  • Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
    – Publilius Syrus

Love

  • To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
    – Bertrand Russell
  • Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
    – Erica Jong
  • But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
    – Jane Austen
  • Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
    – Peter Ustinov

Humility

  • Life is a long lesson in humility.
    – J.M. Barrie
  • He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
    – Confucius
  • It well becomes a young man to be modest.
    – Titus Maccius Plautus

2 thoughts on “Words of The Wise

  1. I don’t think I’ve ever been quoted before, and even now I can hardly say that, as I was quoting tons of other authors. 😉 Thanks!

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