Jealousy3 is the only vice4 that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous5
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings
When people have no other tyrant6, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The optimist7 proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist8 fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
Whoever is not a misanthrope9 at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference11. -- Libbie Fudim
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one s distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy
Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt
When you re away, I m restless, lonely
A grouch12 escapes so many little annoyances13 that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin10 Hubbard
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec
Let go of your attachment14 to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment15. -- Ralph Marston
Criticism is prejudice made plausible16. -- H. L. Mencken
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious17, and immature18. -- Tom Robbins
We can say Peace on Earth, we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology19 to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Boredom20 is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity21, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz
Standing22 in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher23
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
