Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation) Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue). Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation) He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e- Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermon and sayings compilation) Valour needs first strength, then a weapon. J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck US novelist (1902 - 1968) Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S. Burroughs US author (1914 - ) Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats Irish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939) The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthuer Schopenhauer |