Famous (and not so famous) quotes

[Pollypocket]

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Spacey/f]

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

[Pollypocket]

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Margaret J. Wheatley

[quiet musings]

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

[Spacey/f]

The less you speak, the more you learn.

My Mother



Not sure of the author, but heard this only from my mom *l

[quiet musings]

Much learning does not teach understanding.


Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)

[Calina]

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

John Dewey

[Pollypocket]

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Thomas Carlyle

[Spacey/f]

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Elizabeth Taylor

[tru]

"O, what may man within him hide though angel on the outward side"- William Shakespeare

[Spacey/f]

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Lord Gray]

Had to toss this one in..

"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."
--Gilbert Keith Chesterton

[-A Mut Misfit-]

~If It doesnt happen ,wasnt meant to be~

My grammie

[cait]

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

 Lao Tsu

[Pollypocket]

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon