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Overview Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as a founder of Western philosophy and the first moral philosopher of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. Socrates Quotes “All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.” – Socrates “As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.” – Socrates “Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” – Socrates “Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” – Socrates “Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.” – Socrates “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.” – Socrates “Death may be...

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” “A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” “All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.” “Because of a great love, one is courageous.” “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” “From caring comes courage.” “Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.” “Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.” “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” “Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their be...

Overview Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced,"and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Mark Twain Quotes 1. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” – Mark Twain 2. “A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” – Mark Twain 3. “A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” – Mark Twain 4. “A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.” – Mark Twain 5. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” – Mark Twain 6. “All generalizations are false, including this one.” – Mark Twain 7. “All you need is ignorance and confidence...

"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors." – Confucius "When anger rises, think of the consequences." – Confucius "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods." – Confucius "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." – Confucius "The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell." – Confucius "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." – Confucius "They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." – Confucius "The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them." – Confucius "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage." – Confucius "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three un...

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel." – Audrey Hepburn "I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone." – Audrey Hepburn "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." – Audrey Hepburn "The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years." – Audrey Hepburn "The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides." – Audrey Hepburn "The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair." – A...

“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” – Ambrose Bierce “Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.” – Ambrose Bierce “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce “Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.” – Ambrose Bierce “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce “Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.” – Ambrose Bierce “Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.” – Ambrose Bierce “We submit to the majority because we have to. But we...

“Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.” – Alanis Morissette “I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.” – Alanis Morissette “When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.” – Alanis Morissette “I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.” – Alanis Morissette “We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, e...

“I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.” – Adam Carolla “In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.” – Adam Carolla “The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.” – Adam Carolla “If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.” – Adam Carolla “I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.” – Adam Carolla “My first car was a motorcycle.” – Adam Carolla “I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.” – Ada...

“My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.” – Lady Gaga “Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.” – Lady Gaga “So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.” – Lady Gaga “I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.” – Lady Gaga “In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'” – Lady Gaga “I wanted to...

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.” – Khalil Gibran “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” – Khalil Gibran “Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.” – Khalil Gibran “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” – Khalil Gibran “But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Khalil Gibran “Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.” – Khalil Gibran “Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.” – Khalil Gibran “Do...

 Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen ha...