Welcome to my page of wisdom.

• It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out.
  La Rochefoucauld
  

• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises to give even his life knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth while to live.
  Aristotle
  

• There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
  Lord Chesterfield
  

• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
  Schiller
  

• The wise were instructed by reason, men of lesser understanding by observation, fools by mistakes, and beasts by nature.
  Marcus Fabius of Rome (Cicero).
  

• Poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry
  Simonides
  

• That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much. - Nietzsche

• I can forgive but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive. - H.W.BeecherI can forgive but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive. - H.W.Beecher

• Work like you don't need the money.
  Dance like no one is watching.
  And love like you've never been hurt.
  --Mark Twain

• When in doubt tell the truth.
  --Mark Twain
  

• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
  --Mark Twain

• Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
  --Mark Twain

• It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
  --Mark Twain

• The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.
  --Mark Twain

• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
  --Mark Twain

• When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.
  --Mark Twain

• We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it.
  --Mark Twain

• History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
  --Mark Twain

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first
  Mark Twain

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
  --Mark Twain
  

• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
  --Mark Twain
  
  

• Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
  --Mark Twain
  

• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
  --Mark Twain
  

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear---not absence of fear.
  --Mark Twain
  

• Don't let school interfere with your education.
  --Mark Twain
  

• Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.
  --Mark Twain
  

• Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;
  Warm southern wind, blow softly here;
  Green sod above, lie light, lie light-
  Good night, dear heart, good-night, good-night.
  --Mark Twain
  
  

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