Thursday, December 11, 2008

Thoughtful Thursday

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."
- George Bernard Shaw

"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."
- Sam Rayburn

"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."
- William Hazlitt

"The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning."
- Carl Gustav Jung

"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten."
- Thomas Otway

"To choose what is difficult all one's day, as if it were easy, that is faith."
- W.H. Auden

"Be who you are and say what you feel 'cause people who mind don't matter, and people who matter don't mind."
- Theodor Seuss Geisel

"Words are loaded pistols."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

"The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences."
- D.H. Lawrence

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."
- Nora Ephron

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
- Knute Rockne

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