Saturday, June 20, 2009

Worthy Quotes #24

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age.
--George Santayana

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
--Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We ourselves feel like what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
--Mother Teresa

What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
--Talmud

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.
--Grace Murray Hopper

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln

When you are younger, you get blamed for crimes you never committed, and when you're older, you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
-- J.F. Stone

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
-- Thomas Aquinas

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. ‘Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
--Thomas Paine

We find in life exactly what we put into it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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