{"id":119,"date":"2006-11-06T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/11\/06\/words-of-the-wise\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T04:54:00","slug":"words-of-the-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/11\/words-of-the-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of The Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few great quotes I borrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/Ghillies\">Liz Callihan&#8217;s blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.<br \/>&#8211; Christopher Morley <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friendship<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.<br \/>&#8211; Aristotle<\/li>\n<li>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.<br \/>&#8211; George Washington<\/li>\n<li>We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.<br \/>&#8211; Thucydides<\/li>\n<li>The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.<br \/>&#8211; Walt Whitman<\/li>\n<li>Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.<br \/>&#8211; Publilius Syrus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.<br \/>&#8211; Bertrand Russell<\/li>\n<li>Love is everything it&#8217;s cracked up to be&#8230;It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.<br \/>&#8211; Erica Jong<\/li>\n<li>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.<br \/>&#8211; Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li>Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.<br \/>&#8211; Peter Ustinov<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Humility<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life is a long lesson in humility.<br \/>&#8211; J.M. Barrie<\/li>\n<li>He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.<br \/>&#8211; Confucius<\/li>\n<li>It well becomes a young man to be modest.<br \/>&#8211; Titus Maccius Plautus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few great quotes I borrowed from Liz Callihan&#8217;s blog. Life Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.&#8211; Christopher Morley Friendship Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.&#8211; Aristotle Be courteous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/11\/words-of-the-wise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}