Reactions

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
- Chris Evert

[Television] has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
- Arthur M Schlesinger Jr

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
- Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), 1622 - 1673

Euripides

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
- All from Euripides, 484 - 406 BC

Heroes

Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs the greater part will never be known.
- Charles Reade

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

All great stories have three acts. In the first act, the heroes are introduced to great fanfare. In the second, the heroes, on the verge of victory, stumble and take a fall. And in the third act, the heroes return, victorious, to win the battle.
- Ted Leonsis

That which we are, we are.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
made weak by time and fate.
But strong in will,to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yeild.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

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Error

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
- Amos Tversky, 1937 - 1996

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
- Vilfredo Pareto, 1848 - 1923

Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism

Homeless

Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
- Eric Butterworth

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- Henry Lewis Mencken, 1880 - 1956

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
- John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa, 1910 - 1997

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
- Anthony Trollope, 1815 - 1882

Birthday

The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
- Herbert V. Prochnow, 1897 – 1998

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Richter, 1763 - 1825

One of the sadder things, I think,
Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
Presents and parties disappear,
The cards grow fewer year by year,
Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
How many care we're still alive?
- Philip Larkin, 1922 - 1986

Quotable Quotes

I am always fascinated by quotes. I think they are much more than a brilliant compilation of words put together; they are pearls of wisdom, lessons from experiences, thoughts matured through ages. So I finally decided to collect them, and share with you all too.

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