D8
“Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears,
that we may hear twice as much as we speak”
~Epictetus (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)
“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.”~Oscar Wilde
"The whole object of travel is not
to set foot on foreign land;
it is at last to set foot on one's own country
as a foreign land."
~G.K. Chesterton
"The poor lack much,
but the greedy more."
~a Swiss Proverb
"Yellow~colored
objects appear
to be gold."
~Aristotle
"Little~minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win,
you're still a rat."
~Lily Tomlin
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." -Lord Byron
"Galla will, and will not comply
with my wishes and I cannot tell with her willing
and not willing,
what she wills."
~Marcus Aurelius
"Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution --
these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little over the course of a century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." - Mark Twain
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
~Oscar Wilde
"An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh."
- anonymous
