Thoughtful Thursday

"The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly."
- George Bernard Shaw

"All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
- Leo Tolstoy

"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
- Titus Plautus

"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."
- Robert Burton

"Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way."
- Hugh Roe O'Donnell

"Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everything terrible is something that needs our love."
- Rainer Maria Rilke