Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Confucius

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

Confucius

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Confucius

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Confucius

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Confucius

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Confucius

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Confucius

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Confucius

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Daniel Webster

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

Daniel Tosh

When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart.

Andre Maurois

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.

Andre Maurois

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

Andre Maurois

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

Andre Maurois

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Andre Maurois

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

Andre Maurois

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...

Andre Maurois

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Ambrose Bierce

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Ambrose Bierce

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Ambrose Bierce

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Ambrose Bierce

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

Ambrose Bierce

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

Ambrose Bierce

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Ambrose Bierce

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

Ambrose Bierce

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.