Quotes

To safeguard ones health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. (Francios De La Rochefoucauld)

What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold precious, and earth and soil base? People who do this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. It is scarcity and plenty that make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not exchange one for ten barrels of water. (Galileo Galilei)

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. (Arthur Helps)

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a mans life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. (Henry David Thoreau)

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. (Jose Marti)

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted. (African Proverb)

A Girl Scout saves, as she spends, on some system. (Juliette G. Low)

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it. (Cat Deeley)

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. (Carolyn Wells)

A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse. (Thabo Mbeki)