Thursday, 14 February 2008

Socrates

"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." -Socrates

"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners." - George Mikes

"Anger is one letter away from danger." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.- Thomas Edison

"In football, if you stand still you go backwards."- Peter Reid

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. "- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true"- James Branch Cabell

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill

"Just because your voice reaches halfway aroung the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."- Edward R. Murrow

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure." - Thomas Edison

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."- George Eliot

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness. Not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."- William Feather

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."- Henry Ford

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