Words of Wisdom

ADVENTURE

2009-12-20T07:32:00.000-08:00

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-Disraeli

It is profound mistake to think that everything has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.
-Lemierre

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.
-Coleridge

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them, is simple fidelity to what each day brings.
-A. E. Dunning

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; and angels come to visit us , and we only know them when they are gone.
-George Eliot

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles, and why should not other tourists do the same?
-Halliburton

God give me hills to climb, and strength for climbing!
-Arthur Guiterman

My mark's the gypsy girls, the lonely inns, and jest the dusty road.
-John Mansfield

ADMIRATION

2009-12-20T07:01:00.000-08:00

These sentiments are replaced... by several degrees of admiration, love and worship, towards which the ethical feelings ever aspire and in which they ultimately merge.
-J. Martineau

Season your admiration for a while.
-Shakespeare

Our young gentleman... admired this rising divinity and gazed at her with endless delight and wonder.
-Thackeray

Admired as heroes, and as gods obeyed.
-Pope

Examples rather to be admired, than imitated.
-Fuller

It is not a sin to admire beauty; it is a sin to despoil beauty.
-Nida

This spring of action is noble... and I admire it; it is binding and I obey it; it is the dictate of a perfect mind and I revere it.
-J. Martineau

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
-Pope

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
-Addison

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
-La Rochefoucauld

ACTION

2009-12-20T06:52:00.000-08:00

Never do an act of which you doubt the justice or propriety.
-From the Latin

All the world practices the art of acting.
-Petronious Arbiter

The Lord is a God of knowledge and by Him actions are weighed.
-1 Sam. 11.3

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
-Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue nor any unproportioned thought his act.
-Shakespeare

Then boast no more your mighty deeds.
-Shirley

What's done can't be undone.
-Shakespeare

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
-Tennyson

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
-Longfellow

So much to do, so little done.
-Cecile Rhodes

ACQUAINTANCESHIP

2009-12-20T06:41:00.000-08:00

Make the most of the day by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.
-Colton

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
-T. Fuller

Should auid acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind,
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days of aud Lang Syne?
-An old song
Robert Burns

Mine acquaintance are very estrange from me.
-Job XIX-13

He is a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
-Is. LIII. 3

Acquaint her here with my son Paris' love.
-Shakespeare

Contract no friendship or even acquaintance with a guileful man.
-Sir William Jones

Let the acts be in accordance with good government, and the performance of his duties be such as to serve as an example to his neighbor.
-Bonifacio

ACCOMPLISHMENT

2009-12-20T06:27:00.000-08:00

There is always a better way of doing things.
-Toyota

He who does something at the head of one regiment, surpasses him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.
-Lincoln

Too many words - too little work.
-Rizal

These qualities... go to accomplish a perfect woman.
-Shakespeare

Suffer and work!... making the yoke heavy for us... only grants prosperity to him who has merited it thru his efforts.
-Rizal

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,
And wisdom falls before exterior grace.
-Cowper

Achievements come only to those who are unafraid, to those who have courage to exert their strength and power against countless obstacles and have the grit and determination to accomplish what they have started out to do.
-Yangco

ACCEPTANCE

2009-12-20T06:21:00.000-08:00

If you accept them, then their worth is great.
-Shakespeare

To accept of ransom for my son.
-Milton

The Lord accepts thy burnt sacrifice
-Ps. XX. 3

My momentary self, then, has knowledge in so far as it knows, recognizes, accepts another self, the self of the moment just past.
-Josiah Royce

Make it assured of acceptance.
-Shakespeare

They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
-Is. IX. 7

ACCIDENTS

2009-12-20T06:11:00.000-08:00

To the careless, accidents are frequent.
-Old Saying

There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skillfull men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt.
-Rochefoucauld

ABILITY

2009-12-20T04:55:00.000-08:00

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to strive.
-Rizal

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well
-Senecca

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
-Napoleon

Natural abilities are like natural plants that need constant pruning by study.
-Bacon

Then the disciples every man according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren.
-Acts X1. 29

The whole face-capable of all expression from tragedy to farce.
-E. Fitzgerald

He may be more able to serve you than all of us put together.
-Mme. D'Arblay

A man may have capacity to acquire what is called learning and philosophy.
-Goldsmith

Men of ability-whose understandings have been rendered acute by practice in affairs of state.
-Wordsworth

ABIDANCE

2009-12-20T04:46:00.000-08:00

Thou shall abide her judgment on it.
-Tennyson

Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
-Gen. XXIV-55

The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first.
-Fielding

I will abide the coming of my lord.
-Tennyson

Dearly I abide that boast so vain.
-Milton

ABHORRENCE

2009-12-20T03:38:00.000-08:00

It doth abhor me now, I speak the word.
-Shakespear

The arts of pleasure in despotic court I spurn abhorrent.
-Glover

They are persons most abhorrent from blood and treason.
-Burke

Such injudicious profanations so abhorrent to our stricter principles.
-Gibbon

"Tis pride, abhorrent as it is."
-I. Taylor

AVARICE

2009-09-20T10:08:00.001-07:00

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore, they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore, they will part with nothing.
-Barrow

Some men make fortunes but not to enjoy them; for blinded by avarice they live to make fortunes.
-Juvenal

Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.
-Johnson

ANNIHILATION

2009-09-20T10:05:00.000-07:00

It is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
-Bacon

Nothing whatever is annihilated.
Matter, like an eternal river, still rolls on without diminution.
-Roucher

AUTHORSHIP

2009-09-20T10:00:00.001-07:00

The most original modern authors are not so because they advance what is new, but simply because they know how to put what they have to say, as if it had never been said before.
-Goethe

Eternal King, Thee, Author of all beings.
-Milton

Choose an author, as you choose a friend.
-Roscommon

The chief glory of every people arise from its authors.
-Johnson

Such an overthrow... I have authored.
-Chapman

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
-Cervantes

AUTHORITY

2009-09-20T09:56:00.000-07:00

Thus can the demigod, Authority make us pay down for our offense.
-Shakespeare

Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories.
-Sir Philip Sidney

Through authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is often led round by the nose with gold.
-Ibid

All authority belongs to the people
-Jefferson

AUDACITY

2009-09-20T09:52:00.000-07:00

By audacity great fears are concealed.
-Lucan

The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce of men.
-Tatler

Appears he with the most arrogant audacity.
-Joye

There is a quiet effrontery in this that is of a rare and peculiar character.
-Scott

ATHEISM

2009-09-20T09:48:00.000-07:00

Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe. nor around us to awaken tenderness.
-R. Hall

Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded.
-Shipley

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
-Bacon

ASSOCIATE

2009-09-20T09:43:00.000-07:00

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.
-Lavater

The one (idea) no sooner comes into the understanding than associate appears with it.
-Locke

While I descend... to my associate powers.
-Milton

He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
-Macaulay

Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
-Shakespeare

ARCHITECTS

2009-09-20T09:40:00.000-07:00

All architects of fate, working in these walls of time; some with massive deeds and great, some with ornaments of rhyme.
-H. W. Longfellow

ASTRONOMY

2009-09-20T09:36:00.000-07:00

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
-Cicero

ARTIFICE

2009-09-20T09:27:00.000-07:00

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
-La Rochefocauld

The material universe... is the artifice of God, the artifice of the best mechanic.
-Cudworth

His pilots were constructed without much artifice.
-Craik

Appreciation is one special word that always and everywhere leads people to do their best.
-A. E. Wiggam

Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry.
-Macaulay

ART

2009-09-20T09:20:00.000-07:00

There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
-Shakespeare

Blest with each grace of nature and of art.
-A. Pope

Great art is as irrational as great music.
-G. Jean Nathan

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
-Ben Jonson

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
-A. Pope

All arts, we must remember, are phases of social minds.
We are so much in the habit of thinking of them.
In terms of art products, lest we forget, the arts themselves are groups of ideas and acquisitions of skill that exist only in the minds, muscles, and nerves of living men.
-F. H. Giddiens

ARGUMENTS

2009-09-20T09:12:00.001-07:00

Arguments are the roots of disagreement.
-Nida

Always avoid the acute angle.
-Dale Carnegie

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? Your triumph has made other inferior, you hurt his pride and he will resent your triumph.
-Dale Carnegie

If you argue, rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponents good will.
-B. Franklin

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument.
-McAdoo

The only way to get the best of an argument, is to avoid it.
-Dale Carnegie

Wise men argue cause, and fools decide them.
-Anarcharsis

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
-Victor Hugo

Epithets are the arguments of malice.
-Ingersoll

APPRECIATION

2009-09-20T09:07:00.000-07:00

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. Appreciation is sincere... it comes from the heart; it is unselfish, universally admired.
-Dale Carnegie

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
-William James

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my self-esteem.
-Alfred Lunt

Give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.
-Carnegie

APPLAUSE

2009-09-20T09:06:00.001-07:00

I would applaud thee to the very echo
That should applaud again.
-Shakespeare

The brave man seeks not popular applause.
-Dryden

By the gods, I do applaud his courage.
-Shakespeare

Applause is the spur of the noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
-Colton

ANTIQUITY

2009-09-20T08:59:00.000-07:00

All those things which are now held to be of the greatest antiquity were once new.
-Tacitus

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us: nor can we know distinctly to what port steer.
-Burke