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As One Who Appreciates Wisdom

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Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I am not sure about the universe The difference between genius and stupidity is, genius has its limits.

Religion

Anyone who thinks sitting in a church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Laziness

Whenever, I need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

Books

I find television very educating, every time somebody turns on the set, I go to the other room and read a book.

Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist. That is all.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Older people declare war, but it is youth who must fight and die.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

John Lennon

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Lebowitz

Think before you speak. Read before you think. Turn your wounds into wisdom.

The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who cannot do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You never can live long enough to make them all yourself.

He who stands for nothing, falls for anything.

When you know better you do better.

Never, never, never give in.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

I am not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I am dying my hair tonight.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

It’s not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Mahatma Ghandi
– Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Science without humanity.
Knowledge without character.
Politics without principles.
Commerce without morality.
Worship without sacrifice.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mark Twain

Loyalty to a country always. Loyalty to government when it deserves it.

You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you cannot face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Winston Churchill

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

It is well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso-facto, those who are least suited to do so.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

George Carlin

I am completely in favor of separating the church from the state. These two institutions screw us up enough on their own. Both of them together is certain death.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Mr. Fidanian, who culls wisdom in Glendale, may be contacted at fidan@charter.net