Words to the Wise

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
-- Pierre Corneille.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
-- Albert Einstein.

The magic of the first love is the ignorance that it can never end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli.

One half of the world will never understand the other half, and it doesn't matter which half you're in.
-- Unknown.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau.

Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.
-- Unknown.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
-- Merle Shain.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
-- Arthur Koestler.

No one else can know your sadness, and strangers cannot share your joy.
-- Proverbs, 14:10.

We often see further through a tear, than through a telescope.
-- Unknown.

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
-- Zen Proverb.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.
-- Robert Zend.

A man should go on living if only to satisfy his curiosity.
-- Jewish Proverb.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
-- Dante Alighieri, Inferno.

Men have feelings too, but who really cares?
-- Unknown.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
-- Christian Nevell Bovee.

If she undervalue me,
What care I how fair she be?
-- Sir Walter Raleigh.