07.11.07
Sayings
Famous Sayings and Famous Quotes
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don’t want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don’t want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the facination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Truth usually hurts in proportion to how much I have ignored or disbelieved it.
- Gene Dwyer
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.
- C. S. Lewis
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
- Aristotle
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
