Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Words: Our best friends, or our worst enemies.

Dress
"No heathen god or goddess has ever had more zealous devotees than fashion, or more absurd and humiliating rituals, or more mortifying and cruel penances. Her laws, like those of the Medes and Persians, must be implicitly obeyed. But, unlike them, they change as certainly as the moon. The are rarely founded in reason, usually violate common sense and decency and uniformly common comfort."
~ The Royal Path of Life

"A fop dressed out is like a cinnamon tree- the bark is worth more than the body."
~ The Royal Path of Life

However...

"Dress is a very important matter. An untidily dressed person gives a constant feeling of discomfort to the beholder."


Friendships
"Real friendships are so rare, that when they occur, they are famous. "
~Clarence Day

"A friend is a man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
~ Elbert Hubbard

"Have good friends or have none."
~ Royal Path of Life


Interaction
"It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others" `
J.A. Holmes

"We cannot choose whom we will love if we claim to be Christians."

Diligence
"Lost between sunrise and sunset.
One golden hour,
set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered,
for they are gone forever."

"In every triumph there is a lot of try."

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive. Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave"
~Henry Brougham

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
~Thomas Edison

Character
"Fortune does not make men, it unmasks them."

"Only dead fish swim with the stream."

"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "

"You cannot have the power for good without having the power for evil."

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing it."

"If wisdom's ways you wisely seek,
Five things observe with care;
Of whom you speak,
To whom you speak,
And how,
And when,
And where...."

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable."

"Cultivate only the habits you are willing to have master you."

"Nothing is easy and worthwhile."