Quotes of the Week (v4)

“Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.”
- Indian Proverb

“There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.”
- Curtis Cyrus

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
- Mark Twain

“The eagle doesn't hunt flies.”
- Latin Proverb

“Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.”
- Greek Proverb

“The tragedy of life is not death but what dies inside a man while he lives.”
- Albert Schweitzer

“It is the province of knowledge to speak and the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
- Antoine de St. Exupery

“Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.”
- Proverbs 11:2

“Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions. Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.”
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
- William Penn

“If you stay humble, you will not stumble.”
- Unknown

“I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.”
- Joni Mitchell

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.”
- Benjamin Franklin