Condensed Wisdom
A Collection of Quotations and Wisdom ... Compiled by K. Michael Prewitt.
Letting Go of Control
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they ever find?
-Samuel Johnson
Appreciation
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
-William Shakespeare
Change for the Sake of Change
Change is not progress.
-H.L. Mencken
These Thorny Roses
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
-Alphonse Karr
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Who loves a rose will endure its thorns.
-Turkish Proverb
Protecting Our Minds
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
"‘Nature hides God!’ But not from everyone!" - Johann von Goethe
Art is nature speeded up, and God slowed down.
-M.Chazal
Anger
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
-Robert Ingersoll
Teaching
In giving advice, I advise you, be short.
-Horace
'It's a Joke, But...'
Many a truth is said in jest.
-William Shakespeare
The Proverbial Tomorrow
The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.
-Mark Rutherford
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