Wise men say .......

2011-11-27T08:00:00.000Z

WISE MEN SAY

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ROBERT BENCHLEY

2011-11-26T08:00:00.000Z

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

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ELIE WIESEL

2011-11-25T08:00:00.001Z

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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ANON

2011-11-24T08:00:00.001Z

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.

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OSCAR WILDE

2011-11-23T08:00:00.003Z

Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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JOHN BUCHAN

2011-11-22T08:00:00.004Z

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

2011-11-21T08:00:00.001Z

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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HORACE

2011-11-20T08:00:00.000Z

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

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E.E. CUMMINGS

2011-11-19T08:00:00.000Z

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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MOTHER TERESA

2011-11-18T08:00:00.000Z

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

ANON

2011-11-17T08:00:00.000Z

Fear less, hope more.
Whine less, breathe more.
Talk less, say more.
Hate less, love more,
And all good things are yours.

JOHN BARRYMORE

2011-11-16T08:00:00.000Z

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

ANTON CHEKHOV

2011-11-15T08:00:00.001Z

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.

Chinese Proverb

2011-11-14T08:00:00.001Z

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY

2011-11-13T08:00:00.000Z

Love does not exist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

MARK TWAIN

2011-11-12T08:00:00.000Z

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

GEORGE ASAF

2011-11-11T08:00:00.000Z

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

[from the song “Pack up your troubles”]

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

2011-11-10T08:00:00.005Z

If you don't like the way the world is, change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

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Covering a 5-story building, a mural created by 5 artists working round the clock for 16 days,
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MAHATMA GANDHI

2011-11-09T08:00:00.000Z

Freedom is not worth having unless it includes the freedom to make mistakes.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

2011-11-08T08:00:00.000Z

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

ANON

2011-11-07T08:00:00.000Z

If you’re willing to walk the path of the dreamer, anything is possible.

FRANCIS GRAY

2011-11-06T08:00:00.000Z

Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

CHARLES LAMB

2011-11-05T08:00:00.000Z

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth and be found out by accident.

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The largest pearl in the world, a harvester pulled by 20 horses and other striking images
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LAURENS van der POST

2011-11-04T08:00:00.000Z

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

GEORGE HERBERT

2011-11-03T08:00:00.000Z

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Chinese Proverb

2011-11-02T08:00:00.000Z

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

JULIUS CAESAR

2011-11-01T08:00:00.000Z

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see, than about what they can.

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON

2011-10-31T08:00:00.000Z

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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MOTHER TERESA

2011-10-30T08:00:00.000Z

Don’t worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.

ROBERT FROST

2011-10-29T08:00:00.000+01:00

By working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be the boss and work 12 hours a day.

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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

2011-10-28T08:00:00.002+01:00

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

2011-10-27T08:00:00.001+01:00

Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

2011-10-26T08:00:00.000+01:00

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

2011-10-25T08:00:00.000+01:00

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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Chinese Proverb

2011-10-24T08:00:00.000+01:00

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

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H.L. MENCKEN

2011-10-23T08:00:00.000+01:00

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

ERICA JONG

2011-10-22T08:00:00.000+01:00

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't.

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HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

2011-10-21T08:00:00.000+01:00

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages. The question is what he will do with the things he has.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON

2011-10-20T08:00:00.000+01:00

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

2011-10-19T08:00:00.000+01:00

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

HENRY VAN DYKE

2011-10-18T08:00:00.004+01:00

Time is -
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice -
But for those who love - Time is eternity.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

2011-10-17T08:00:00.000+01:00

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed.

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LAYMAN P'ANG

2011-10-16T08:00:00.000+01:00

The past is already past.
Don't try to regain it.
The present does not stay.
Don't try to touch it.
From moment to moment.
The future has not come;
Don't think about it beforehand.

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DR. SEUSS

2011-10-15T08:00:00.000+01:00

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

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MARK TWAIN

2011-10-14T08:00:00.002+01:00

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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ELBERT HUBBARD

2011-10-13T08:00:00.000+01:00

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

CAROL BURNETT

2011-10-12T07:59:00.000+01:00

Only I can change my life. No one else can do it for me.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

2011-10-11T08:03:00.000+01:00

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

JOHN DEWEY

2011-10-10T08:00:00.001+01:00

A problem well put is a problem half solved.

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ANON

2011-10-09T08:00:00.000+01:00

Stop struggling for perfection, and recognise the perfection you already are.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

2011-10-08T08:00:00.000+01:00

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Chinese Proverb

2011-10-07T08:00:00.000+01:00

Think before acting; and whilst acting, still think.

ROBERT FROST

2011-10-06T08:00:00.000+01:00

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

2011-10-05T08:00:00.000+01:00

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

HELEN KELLER

2011-10-04T08:00:00.001+01:00

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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KHALED HOSSEINI

2011-10-03T08:00:00.001+01:00

Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

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MAHATMA GANDHI

2011-10-02T08:00:00.000+01:00

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

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ANON

2011-10-01T08:00:00.001+01:00

For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy or there is none;
If there be one, try and find it,
If there be none, never mind it.

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MARY PICKFORD

2011-09-30T08:00:00.000+01:00

What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

BUDDHA

2011-09-29T08:17:00.000+01:00

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

ANDREW CARNEGIE

2011-09-28T08:00:00.000+01:00

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

2011-09-27T08:00:00.000+01:00

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Bulgarian Proverb

2011-09-26T08:00:00.000+01:00

Tell me who your friends are, so I can tell you who you are.

ANON

2011-09-25T08:00:00.000+01:00

It costs nothing, but creates much.
It enriches those who receive without impoverishing those who give.
It happens in a flash, and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
It cannot be begged, borrowed, or stolen, but it is of no earthly good to anyone until it's given away.
So if in your hurry you run across someone too weary to smile, leave one of yours.

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE

2011-09-24T08:00:00.000+01:00

If you are cold, tea will warm you.
If you are too heated, it will cool you.
If you are depressed, it will cheer you.
If you are excited, it will calm you.

BENJAMIN SPOCK

2011-09-23T08:00:00.000+01:00

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

MAYA ANGELOU

2011-09-22T08:00:00.000+01:00

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

AESOP

2011-09-21T08:00:00.000+01:00

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

2011-09-20T08:00:00.000+01:00

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Spanish Proverb

2011-09-19T08:00:00.001+01:00

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

Today at the Poetry for Pleasure blog- "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"
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ROBERT FROST

2011-09-18T08:00:00.000+01:00

Never take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Read "The Ruined Maid" - today's poem at THOMAS HARDY THE WESSEX POET
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WASHINGTON IRVING

2011-09-17T08:00:00.000+01:00

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

2011-09-16T08:00:00.000+01:00

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

The poems of Thomas Hardy at THE WESSEX POET
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KAREN KENYON

2011-09-15T08:00:00.000+01:00

Life need not just happen to us. We can choose. We are choosing every moment which direction to turn, towards the light or towards the dark.

ANDRE GIDE

2011-09-14T08:00:00.000+01:00

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

WOODY ALLEN

2011-09-13T08:00:00.001+01:00

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

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STEPHEN KAGGWA

2011-09-12T08:00:00.000+01:00

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

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JOHN WESLEY

2011-09-11T08:00:00.000+01:00

Beware you be not swallowed up in books.
An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

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Chinese Saying

2011-09-10T08:00:00.000+01:00

Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.

DR. SEUSS

2011-09-09T08:00:00.001+01:00

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Have you a minute? Listen to an extract from "Tales from the Vienna Woods" by Johann Strauss at - http://haveyouaminute.blogspot.com

MARGARET THATCHER

2011-09-08T08:00:00.000+01:00

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

2011-09-07T08:00:00.000+01:00

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

ANON

2011-09-06T08:00:00.000+01:00

Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

2011-09-05T08:00:00.000+01:00

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

2011-09-04T08:00:00.001+01:00

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh
and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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LESLIE NIELSEN

2011-09-03T08:00:00.000+01:00

Doing nothing is very hard to do - you never know when you’re finished.

Greek Proverb

2011-09-02T08:00:00.000+01:00

A heart that loves is always young

All The Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II)
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

2011-09-01T08:00:00.000+01:00

Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Mary's Ghost (Thomas Hood)
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MARGARET MEAD

2011-08-31T08:00:00.000+01:00

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

'Tis the Last Rose of Summer (Thomas Moore)
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DAVID HUME

2011-08-30T08:00:00.000+01:00

Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

A love poem by Queen Elizabeth I
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MAHATMA GANDHI

2011-08-29T08:00:00.002+01:00

Where there is love there is life.

I wandered lonely as a cloud (Wordsworth)
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WILLIAM W. PURKEY

2011-08-28T08:00:00.000+01:00

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

2011-08-27T08:00:00.002+01:00

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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CONFUCIUS

2011-08-26T08:00:00.000+01:00

If one’s mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear.

ANON

2011-08-25T08:00:00.000+01:00

Don't pretend you know.
Start the day fresh and new.
The only thing you know is that you don't know.

MARY KAY ASH

2011-08-24T08:00:00.000+01:00

Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as the mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

THOMAS EDISON

2011-08-23T08:00:00.000+01:00

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

NICHOLAS SPARKS

2011-08-22T08:00:00.000+01:00

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

THOMAS HARDY

2011-08-21T08:00:00.000+01:00

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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MAE WEST

2011-08-20T08:00:00.000+01:00

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough