Some quotes I enjoy

I speak Spanish to God, French to men, German to horses, and Italian to women.
-- Medieval French King Charles V

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
-- Confucius

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals
Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which
is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
-- Albert Einstein

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
-- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
-- Albert Einstein

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
-- Malcolm S. Forbes

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though
it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we
must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching
onward.
-- Henry Ford

A jury of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital
unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him
to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse. The
true with the false and the false with the true.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
-- Lao-Tzu

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it
tumbles over on the other.
-- Luther

Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
-- Michaelangelo

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed
as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the
greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm
it, and thereby always remain music.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
-- Napoleon

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are
kind.
-- Malayan Proverb

He is not great who is not greatly good.
-- William Shakespeare

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
-- Socrates

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest
they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal
association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
-- Mark Twain


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