Sunday, July 5, 2009

Some of My Favorite Quotes

This does not include the ones already posted on my blog :)

"Profanity is a Crutch for the Conversationally Crippled." - Unknown

"In reality there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself...For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility." - Benjamin Franklin.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~Benjamin Franklin

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. ~Somerset Maugham

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~Booker T. Washington

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius

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"This is the mark of a really admirable man: Steadfastness in the face of trouble." Ludwig van Beethoven
"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everyone else and still unknown to himself." Francis Bacon
It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? .... The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil. ~ Ravi Zacharias