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Betrayal Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:37:27 +0000

You can never betray the people who are dead. ~ Anita Brookner Quote

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. ~ Tennessee Williams Quote

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quote

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own. ~ Publilius Syrus Quote

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one’s self. ~ Publilius Syrus Quote

To betray you must first belong. ~ Harold Philby Quote

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. ~ Joseph Conrad Quote

There are many things a man will do, but betrayal for a price is not one of yours. ~ Jules Furthman Quote

The cheese betrays the milk. ~ Finnish Proverb

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses. ~ Henry David Thoreau Quote

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. ~ William Penn Quote

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed. ~ Charles Peguy Quote

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. ~ William Wordsworth Quote

Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret. They soon betray themselves. ~ Spanish Proverb

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself. ~ August Heckscher Quote

If someone betrays you once, it’s his fault. If he betrays you twice, it’s your fault. ~ Italian Proverb

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ~ Edward M. Forster Quote

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent. ~ Russian Proverb

He who betrays you is not one from far away. ~ African Proverb

Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. ~ Jean Genet

A face that never laughs betrays an evil heart. ~ Basque Proverb

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Weekends Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:07:26 +0000

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~ Words of Bill Watterson

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~ Words of John Shirley

There aren’t enough days in the weekend. ~ Words of Rod Schmidt

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ~ Words of F. Scott Fitzgerald

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~ Words Chuck Palahniuk

One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution. ~ Author Unknown

I hate weekends because there is no stock market. ~ Words of Rene Rivkin

Family life may survive as a form of evening and weekend entertainment. ~ Words of Mason Cooley

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed? ~ Words of Marilyn vos Savant

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. ~ Words of Richard Rorty

Whenever I date a guy, I think, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? ~ Words of Rita Rudner

Weekends don’t pay as well as weekdays but at least there’s football. ~ Words of S.A. Sachs

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Occupation Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:40:16 +0000

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. ~ Sir William Osler Quote

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. ~ Orison Swett Marden Quote

Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they’re informed by your imagination. ~ Alice Koller Quote

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. ~ William Lyon Phelps Quote

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quote

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star. ~ Louise Brooks Quote

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quote

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation. ~ Mortimer Smith Quote

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. ~ Frederick William Robertson Quote

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. ~ Malcolm McLaren Quote

Service to youth is the rent we pay for the space we occupy on earth. ~ Jane Deeter Rippin Quote

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. ~ Nancy Chodorow Quote

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quote

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can. ~ Cary Grant Quote

Life without absorbing occupation is hell. ~ Elbert Hubbard Quote

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of… serve his brethren. ~ William Tyndale Quote

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. ~ William James Quote

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quote

It is necessary to try to surpass one’s self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. ~ Queen Christina Quote

If you wish to know what most occupies a man’s thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation. ~ Chinese Proverb

Don’t be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. . ~ Confucius

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ~ Henry Luce Quote

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. ~ John Burroughs Quote

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Shame is worse than death

Nabil Medawar — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:07:09 +0000

Avoid shame but do not seek glory — nothing so expensive as glory. ~ Sydney Smith Quote
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ Horace Mann Quote
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. ~ Confucian Proverb
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quote
Better be in debt than in shame. ~ Croatian Proverb
Better poor with honor than rich with shame. ~ Dutch Proverb
Common sense hides shame. ~ Gaelic Proverb
Dine with arrogance, sleep with shame. ~ Spanish Proverb
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~ Chinese Proverb
Gentlemen don’t want to give much and are ashamed to give little. ~ Czech Proverb
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ~ Robert Half Quote
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quote
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish Proverb
He who is ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth. ~ Author Unknown
He who knows not shame does whatever he likes. ~ Egyptian Proverb
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don’t treat me right — shame on you! ~ Louis Armstrong Quote
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quote
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ~ Jonathan Swift
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. ~ Mark Twain
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ~ Marcus T. Cicero Quote
It is better to die in revenge than to live on in shame. ~ Arabian Proverb
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ~ Pliny The Elder Quote
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quote
It is no shame at all to work for money. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. ~ George Eliot Quote
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Quote
Nobody is shamed twice. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double. ~ German Proverb
Old sins, new shame. ~ French Proverb
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. ~ Samuel Johnson
Shame is forgotten, debts are not. ~ Chinese Proverb
Shame is worse than death. ~ Russian Proverb
Shame lasts longer than poverty. ~ Dutch Proverb
Speak the truth and shame the devil. ~ Traditional Proverb
Tell a lie on Saturday and you will be ashamed on Sunday. ~ Turkish Proverb
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ~ Oscar Wilde Quote
The lion is ashamed; it’s true, when he hunts with the fox. ~ Gotthold Lessing Quote
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quote
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~ Russian Proverb
To ask is a temporary shame; not to ask, an eternal one. ~ Japanese Proverb
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame. ~ Author Unknown
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. ~ Robin G. Collingwood
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quote
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quote
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. ~ John Lyly Quote
Where there is no shame, there is no honor. ~ African Proverb
Who fears no shame comes to no honor. ~ Dutch Proverb
Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children. ~ Egyptian Proverb

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Shame Quotes

Deception Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:17:45 +0000

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. ~ Alan Turing Quote

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ~ Marina Tsvetaeva Quote

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practise deception themselves. ~ Elias Canetti

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ~ – Bishop Robert South Quote

Deceive me about the price but not about the goods. ~ Indian Proverb

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. ~ George Herbert Quote

Deceive the rich and powerful, if you will, but don’t insult them. ~ Japanese Proverb

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ~ George Bancroft Quote

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. ~ Maimonides Quote

Even good people are obliged to deceive. ~ Greg LeMond Quote

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues Quote

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost. ~ Franz Kafka Quote

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ~ Vincent Voiture Quote

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. ~ Italian Proverb

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. ~ Horace Quote

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. ~ Elizabeth I Quote

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. ~ Jeanette Winterson Quote

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. ~ Italian Proverb

If you don’t want to be deceived, then marry on February 30th. ~ French Proverb

If you don’t want to be deceived, you must have as many eyes as hairs on the head. ~ German Proverb

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ~ French Proverb

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quote

It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them. ~ French Proverb

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. ~ Sissela Bok Quote

Life is the art of being well deceived. ~ William Hazlitt Quote

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. ~ Samuel Johnson Quote

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. ~ Johann G. Seume Quote

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. ~ English Proverb

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. ~ Sophocles Quote

Quick to believe is quickly deceived. ~ Serbian Proverb

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. ~ Mason Cooley Quote

Skeptics are never deceived. ~ French Proverb

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good. ~ Joseph Roux Quote

The art of pleasing is the art of deception. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues Quote

The easiest person to deceive is one’s self. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quote

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. ~ John Ruskin Quote

The people want to be deceived. ~ Latin Proverb

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quote

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. ~ Greek Proverb

To deceive oneself is very easy. ~ Traditional Proverb

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale. ~ Samuel Johnson Quote

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ~ Goethe Quote

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quote

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ~ Goethe Quote

We like to be deceived. ~ Blaise Pascal Quote

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. ~ Plato Quote

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ~ Mark Twain Quote

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? ~ Benjamin Franklin

With nice appearance people want to be deceived. ~ German Proverb

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Assumptions Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:57:51 +0000

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~ Henry Winkler Quote

Assume a virtue if you have it not. ~ William Shakespeare Quote

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume. ~ H. L. Mencken Quote

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you “assume” to be possible — or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you. ~ Author Unknown

Every man assumes the colors of his surroundings. ~ Chinese Proverb

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. ~ Orville Wright Quote

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. ~ John D. Rockefeller Quote

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes. ~ The Talmud

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ~ George Orwell Quote

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else. ~ Ivern Ball Quote

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. ~ William Boetcker Quote

The baby has not been born yet, and yet you assert that his nose is like his grandfather’s! ~ Indian Proverb

The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape. ~ William Shakespeare Quote

The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a prior assumptions about the meaning of the word understand. ~ Author Unknown

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. ~ Charlotte P. Gillman Quote

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it’s serious. ~ Lester Bangs Quote

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. ~ Adrienne Rich Quote

We cannot safely assume that other people’s minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us. ~ Isabel Briggs Myers Quote

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. ~ Stephen Vizinczey Quote

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions. ~ Stephen R. Covey Quote

When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God’s answer. ~ J.L. Kraft Quote

You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do or don’t do. ~ Simone De Beauvoir Quote

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. ~ Denis Waitley Quote

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Sum Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:50:57 +0000

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things. ~ Murray Kempton Quote

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do nothing else. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quote

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote

Character is the sum and total of a person’s choices. ~ P. B. Fitzwater Quote

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out…~ Robert Collier Quote

You’re only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can’t be a team. ~ David Schwimmer Quote

This is the sum of all — righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or injury to others, a man obtains a proper rule of action by looking at his neighbor as himself. ~ The Mahabharta Quote

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The sum of all sums is eternity. ~ Lucretius Quote

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. ~ Thomas Carlyle Quote

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. ~ Putnam VI Quote

Success is the sum of details. ~ Harvey S. Firestone Quote

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings. ~ Bruce Catton Quote

Our value is the sum of our values. ~ Joe Batten Quote

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. ~ Wayne Dyer Quote

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man’s thinking or his writing ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

Man is not the sum of what he has, but the totality of what he does not yet have and what he might have. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.~ Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. ~ Cesare Pavese Quote

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~ Virginia Woolf Quote

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. ~ Robert Frost Quote

If you want to know the value of an individual, ask not for the sum of all that he owns, but look instead to the total of all that he has given.~ Douglas K Freeman Quote

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. ~ J. G. Ballard Quote

Character is that sum total of moments we can’t explain. ~ George Saunders Quote

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? ~ Henry Miller Quote

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. ~ Ida P. Rolf Quote

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Shouting Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:25:56 +0000

One timely shout is better than constant talk. ~ Mexican Proverb

I want to see you shoot the way you shout. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

One chops the wood and the other shouts “Oh, my back!” ~ Yiddish Proverb

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. ~ Oliver Cromwell

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. ~ William Ralph Inge

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. ~ Robert Holman

The thief shouts to frighten the hell out of his victim. ~ Greek Proverb

Goodness shouts. Evil whispers. ~ Indonesian Proverb

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout. ~ Author Unknown

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. ~ Milan Kundera

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another — until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. ~ Richard M. Nixon

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one, who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. ~ Georges Bataille

A yawn is a silent shout. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Vices Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:52:56 +0000

Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue. ~ Latin Proverb

What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. ~ Henry Fielding Quote

Vices are learned without a master. ~ Italian Proverb

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quote

Vices of the time; vices of the man. ~ Francis Bacon Quote

Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quote

The vices of some men are magnificent. ~ Charles Lamb Quote

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. ~ Honore de Balzac

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. ~ Aristophanes Quote

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. ~ Herbert Samuel Quote

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want. ~ French Proverb

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ~ Charles Dickens Quote

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ~ Hosea Ballou Quote

Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~ Traditional Proverb

He who hates vice hates men. ~ John Morley Quote

Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit. ~ Traditional Proverb

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, “He who hates vice hates mankind.” ~ W. MacNeile Dixon Quote

Vice often rides triumphantly in the coach of virtue. ~ German Proverb

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. ~ Henry Ward BeecherQuote

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~ Edmund Burke Quote

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners, your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards, who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ~ Thornton Wilder Quote

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues Quote

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. ~ Woody Allen

After one vice a greater follows. ~ Spanish Proverb

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ~ Mark Twain

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Meditation Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:54:59 +0000

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. ~ Jeremy Taylor

Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass. ~ Owen Feltham

Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory. ~ Francis Quarles

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. And honor the reward of action. ~ Francis Quarles

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,–as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon. ~ Thomas Hartwell Horne

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. ~ Swami Sivananda

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time. ~ Max Picard

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. ~ Buddha

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more. ~ Ziggy Marley

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. ~ Goethe

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. ~ Bhagavad Gita

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. ~ Eknath Easwaran

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. ~ Isaac Watts

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation must form our judgment. ~ Isaac Watts

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. ~ Bhagavad Gita

The man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of his years. ~ Isaac Taylor

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production. ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

The flowering of love is meditation. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. ~ Author Unknown

Sleep is the best meditation. ~ Dalai Lama

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~ Diana Robinson

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. ~ Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. ~ Swami Sivananda

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. ~ Author Unknown

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. ~ Walter Bagehot

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.~ Joseph Hall

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. ~ Patanjali

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. ~ Daniel Goleman

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation. ~ Shvetashvatara Upanishad

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years. ~ Isaac Taylor

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. ~ Johannes Tauler

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