quotation game

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. - Simone Signoret

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

Originally posted by apathist
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

"Sorry to have written such a long letter but I did not have time to write a short one."
(Pascal, Frost, various others) My favorite, "... but was pressed for time".

We all shine on.

--John Winston-Ono Lennon

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

knowledge may give weight, but accomplisments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield)

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
knowledge may give weight, but accomplisments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield)

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." (Michel de Montaigne)

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." (Michel de Montaigne)

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”


John C. Maxwell

Originally posted by checkbaiter
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”


John C. Maxwell

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

— Oscar Wilde (The Critic as Artist)

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fascinating couplet!
apathist

"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today." (William Glasser)