Mine is a piece from The Complete Angler by Isaak Walton. It kind of says how people with money have no 'real life' as they are always worried about the amount they have. I know people like that. Very hard to get along with. Here it is:
Sir, there be many men that are by others taken to be serious and grave men, whom we contemn and pity. Men that are taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion; money getting men, men that spend all their time, first in getting, and next, in anxious care to keep it; men that are condemned to be rich, and then always busy or discontented: for these poor rich-men, we Anglers pity them perfectly.
Isaak Walton 1653
2007-07-27 10:55:16 · 19 answers · asked by ? 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him - he has known a fear beyond every other."
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
2007-07-27 11:31:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I came across this many,many years ago and find it is very true.
To the question of your life, you are the only answer.
To the problems in your life, you are the only solution.
Grant that I may be given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so that my heart might be truly awakened and my practice of universal liberation and compassion may be truly filled.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't even have to look it up anymore it is one of those things that has stuck in my mind like it's been superglued there!
2007-07-27 11:07:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.-- Mother Teresa
She gave so much for others, and shows us that just a little bit goes a long way. But all to often people get caught up in themselves to even say a kind word, or do a good deed.
2007-07-27 11:02:10 · answer #3 · answered by Lil's Mommy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have lived Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more I see evidence of these truths....that God governs in the affairs of men, and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?-----Ben Franklin
As soon as we forget that we are a nation under God, we will be a nation gone under------Ronald Reagan
MY FAVORITE!!!!! Before I refuse to anwser any of your questions, I would like to make an opening statement.----Ronald Reagan
2007-07-27 14:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"There are two kinds of people in the world -- those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group. There is less competition there." -- Ann Landers
The "why?" is pretty obvious. I am usually in the first group and I know too many others that are in the second.
2007-07-27 11:11:04 · answer #5 · answered by Frosty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mine is.........
Who knows truly? Who here will declare whence it arose, whence this creation? The gods are subsequent to the creation of this. Who, then, knows whence it has come into being?
Whence this creation has come into being; whether it was made or not; he in the highest heaven is its surveyor. Surely he knows, or perhaps he knows not.
It`s from The Rig veda.
and i like it as the Rigveda was composed roughly between 1700–1100 and so pre-dates Greek Philosophy.
2007-07-27 18:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marian Wright Edelman:
I have devoted my life to world peace sooo....
It is pretty self explainintory
Lindy
Hopefully future UN employee
2007-07-27 11:39:19 · answer #7 · answered by Janika 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my fave passage is from the bible...
"disclaimer - before reading this the reader should be made aware of the fact that this isnt the word of god, but of many human beings, inspired by ancient philosophers and mistranslated a great many times throughout history, and so has no realistic bearing on life in the 21st century"
2007-07-27 11:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by Fiddy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have so many so its really hard to pick a favourite, but off the top off my head:-
From Robert Frost....
I took the Road Less Travelled and that has made all the difference.
(Just beautiful)
2007-07-27 11:01:07 · answer #9 · answered by CHARLOTTE B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Hope is nothing more than wishful thinking. It abrogates definitive focus and creates false friends whom are much worse than true enemies."--Sun Tzu
It teaches me to not rely upon the likelihood of hope and friends, but to count on myself only. That people and hope are no damn good.
2007-07-27 17:48:55 · answer #10 · answered by tercentenary98 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋