- E -
- Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
- Think once before you give, twice before you accept, and a thousand times before you ask.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
- He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing: detachment.
Johannes Eckhart
- Never exaggerate your faults; your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
- If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards
- If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
- Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
- Big Ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.
John Elliot, Jr.
- Make yourself necessary to someone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian Eno
- Live your life without attracting attention.
Epicurus
- First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus
- Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson
- Slight not what's near, when aiming at what's far.
Euripides
- F -
- If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if
you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
- When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your
children.
William Feather
- Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields
- Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
- Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Henry Ford
- Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
Henry Ford
- Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I
have in my library are books that other folks have leant me.
Anatole France
- When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
- Live as if you were living a second time, and as if you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankel
- Keep conscience clear
Then never fear.
Benjamin Franklin
- If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
- Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
- Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Benjamin Franklin
- Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin
- The more you know, the more ignorant you should appear.
Aleksander Fredro
- Wait till it is night before saying it was a fine day.
French Proverb
- Don't find fault with what you don't understand.
French Proverb
- What is required is sight and insight -- then you might add one more: excite.
Robert Frost
- You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
Robert Frost
- Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
Robert Frost
- Do as most do, and few will speak ill of thee.
Thomas Fuller
- Don't fight forces; use them.
Buckminster Fuller
- Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller
- Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
Thomas Fuller
- Take heed: most men will cheat without scruple where they can do it withour fear.
Thomas Fuller
- G -
- If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
Gandhi
- Hate the sin and love the sinner.
Gandhi
- To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Gandhi
- If nothing else is available, clutch at straws.
Jack Gardner
- If it is gone and you are alive, you didn't need it.
Jack Gardner
- Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't
cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George
- Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance
King George V
- Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything
else.
Andre Gide
- If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Khalil Gibran
- Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
- Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you.
Henry Gilmer
- Make your life a mission -- not an intermission.
Glasgow
- Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
Goethe
- A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Sidney Goff
- Never make forecasts, especially about the future.
Samuel Goldwyn
- When someone does something good, Applaud! You will make two people
happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
- Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman
- To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
- Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
Edmund Gosse
- Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it..
Baltasar Gracian.
- Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian
- Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracian.
- Avoid outshining your superiors. All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
Baltasar Gracian
- Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Baltasar Gracian
- Leave your luck while still winning.
Baltasar Gracian
- The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Baltasar Gracian
- Do pleasant things yourself, unpleasant things through others.
Baltasar Gracian
- It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian
- A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.
Baltasar Gracian
- Display startling novelty--rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
Baltasar Gracian
- Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
Baltasar Gracian
- Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
Daniel Greenberg
- Waste no time with weapons that do not remove the causes of your complaints but that simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco Guicciardini
- Don't tell your friends about your indegestion. "How are you." is a
greeting, not a question.
Arthur Guiterman
- H -
- Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out dancing.
Buddy Hackett
- Never do for a child what he si capable of doing for himself.
Elizabeth G. hainstock
- A promise must never be broken.
Alexander Hamilton
- Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step: only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hmmerskjold
- Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
Sidney J. Harris
- Wake early if you want another man's life or land. No lamb for the lazy wolf. No battles won in bed.
Hávamál
- A log's flame leaps to another. Fire kindles fire. A man listens, thus he learns. The shy stays shallow.
Hávamál
- Never walk away from home ahead of your axe and sword. You can't feel a battle in your bones or forsee a fight.
Hávamál
- No man should call himself clever. A sage visitor is a silent guest.
Hávamál
- When passing a door post, watch as you walk on, inspect as you enter. It is uncertain where enemies lurk or crouch in a dark corner.
Hávamál
- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
- Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a
couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train
yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
- Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.
Zbigniew Herbert
- Drink not the third glass -- which thou can'st not tame once it is within thee.
George Herbert
- You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
- Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
George Herbert
- Don't ever slam the door; you might want to go back.
Don Herold
- Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.
Lord Hervey
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the
expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
- Speak clearley, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let
it fall.
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
- Leverage is everything--don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Put not your trust in money; put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.
Jenny Holzer
- Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
Horace
- Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace
- Don't think, just do.
Horace
- Never Despair
Nil desperandum
Horace ['Odes']
- Seize the day, put little trust in the future.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Horace ['Odes' ]
- Never get married in the morning, 'cause you may never know who you'll meet that night.
Paul Hornung
- When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
- When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
Edgar Watson Howe
- A good scare is worth more to a man than dood advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
- If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in law.
Edgar Watson Howe
- If you want work well done, select a busy man -- the other kind has no time
Elbert Hubbard
- Be pleasant untili ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
- Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
- Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Elbert Hubbard
- If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still
call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
- To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
- The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
- Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
- When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her
eyes.
Victor Hugo
- If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
- If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the
topic of eating.
Leigh Hunt
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