Post #210

We have two ears, but only one mouth, so that we may listen more and talk less.
—Zeno

Post #209

The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.
—Heraclitus

Post #208

Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
—Albert Szent-Györgyi

Post #207

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
—Mark Twain

Post #206

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
—William Allen White

Post #205

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on it's way to being solved.
—R. Buckminster Fuller

Post #204

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
—John Updike

Post #203

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
—Henri Frédéric Amiel

Post #202

Any road followed to it's end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
—Frank Herbert

Post #201

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
—Oscar Wilde

Post #200

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
—Clarence Darrow

Post #199

Beware the fury of a patient man.
—John Dryden

Post #198

Children have more need of models than of critics.
—Joseph Joubert

Post #197

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
—Erasmus

Post #196

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
—Miguel de Cervantes

Post #195

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for the coffin.
—H.L. Mencken

Post #194

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
—Martin H. Fisher

Post #193

"My idea of an agreeable person" said Hugo Bohun "is a person who agrees with me".
—From Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli

Post #192

It is good fishing in drumbling (troubled) waters.
—Collection of Scottish Proverbs

Post #191

There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
—Publilius Syrus

Post #190

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
—John Stuart Mill

Post #189

Logic is neither a science, nor an art, but a dodge.
—Benjamin Jowett

Post #188

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
—Juvenal

Post #187

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistake I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there.  Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
—Jackie Robinson

Post #186

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
—Samuel Lover

Post #185

No one is as poor as he who is ignorant.
—Nedarim

Post #184

Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has no time to form.
—André Maurois

Post #183

First health, then wealth, then pleasure, and do not owe anything to anybody.
—Catherine the Great

Post #182

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #181

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
—Nancy Thayer