Quotations from Everywhere

(Part Seven)

The outer passes away: the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.

The brave people think of themselves last of all.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Cure the disease and kill the patient is not acceptable.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Business, that's easily defined: it's other people's money.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.