Angel Mother

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one”
Jill Churchill quotes

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm quotes

Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young.

A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
Helen Rice quotes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aeschylus
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Washington Irving
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Abraham Lincoln
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

Henry Ward Beecher
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

George Washington
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

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Fools and Wise

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

Who are a little wise the best fools be.
John Donne

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin Franklin

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Balthasar Gracian

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men — and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a fool may be wise after the event.
Homer

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
Nikolai Lenin

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Unknown

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Unknown

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
Oscar Hammerstein II

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
John Dalberg Acton

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Peace and War Quotes

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will – and determination – to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.

— Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

— Federico Mayor

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent revolt of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution
of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.

— Bishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers (1879 – 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929

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Truth and Lie

The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. —Josh Billings

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. –Theodore Parker

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody’s church. –Robert Farrar Capon

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.– Winston Churchill

To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle. — George Orwell

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.– Galileo Galilei

We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively. –Chip Brogden

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. –Agnes Repplier

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. –Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.– John Gilmore

Do not fear to repeat what has already been said. Men need the truth dinned into their ears many times and from all sides. The first rumor makes them prick up their ears, the second registers, and the third enters.–Rene Theophile Hyacinthe LaÎnnec

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. –Jim Davis

The truth is “hate speech” only to those who have something to hide.–Michael Rivero

From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth; from the laziness that is content with half-truths; from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth – oh God of Truth deliver us!—Unknown

The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. –Albert Einstein

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. –Thoreau

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.– Martin Luther

In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble. –Gary Amirault

One truth out of context can prove very dangerous. –Gregory Phillips

The truth is “hate speech” only to those who have something to hide. — Michael Rivero

To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead. –Gary Amirault

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.–Chuck Swindoll

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. –George Orwell

Candor is a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. Wilhelm Stekel

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.–Sydney J. Harris

The ability to lie is a liability.–Unknown

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.–George MacDonald

When in doubt, tell the truth. –Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember what you said.–Mark Twain

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. –CS Lewis

“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” –Henry Kissinger

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. — Vincent de Paul

The folks who know the truth aren’t talking…. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up! –Tom Waits

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. –Stopford Brooke

First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along. –Alexander Humbold

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. –Arthur Schopenhauer

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical. –Soren Kierkegaard

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses–Norman Grubb

The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. –Stephen Hawking

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. –Rev. Denny Brake

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. –Tryon Edwards

There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn’t so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so. –Soren Kierkegaard

Man can certainly keep on lying… but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel… but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. –Karl Barth

When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. –Unknown

The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. –Stephen Hawking

Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray. –Henry Ward Beecher

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.–Niels Bohr

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. –William James

I don’t think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That’s a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Jeff Melvoin

All generalizations, including this one, are false. –Mark Twain

The highest truth cannot be put into words. – Lao tzu.

The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf — a philosopher or servant, — but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world. — Robert G. Ingersoll – (1833-1899) American political leader, orator

The truth was obscure, too plain and too pure. To live it you had to explode.—Bob Dylan

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.–Chuck Colson

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.– Martin Luther King Jr.

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. –Bronson Alcott

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.– Goethe

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.– Rene Descartes-Rules

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.– Dresden James

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.— Adrian Rodgers

A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. F.W. Farrar

The way of discovery still lies open to us in divine things if we have the moral courage and the desire to go to the fountain head of truth, instead of filling our vessels out of this doctor’s compendium… or be held spellbound by the shadow of a few great names.– Rev. J. B. Herd

Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. –Unknown

Our first decision about Truth is based upon Who Jesus is. With that question settled many Christians are content, but Truth is living. Truth will continue to reveal Himself to us and around us for as long as we will allow it.—Chip Brogden

…for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.–Blaise Pascal

The thought that provokes thought is much more valuable than the thought that is only an echo of an accepted truth. – Thomas W. Hanford

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free. —Michael Servetus

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. –Blaise Pascal

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.–Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act. –George MacDonald

The one who buries the Truth in the ground for safekeeping will lose it, while the one who does something with the Truth will receive more Truth. This is why some grow spiritually and some do not. –Chip Brogden

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier. –Gandhi

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. –Thomas Brooks

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.– Blaise Pascal

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. — Adrian Rodgers

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.– Martin Luther King

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Time… Time… Time…

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana”
Groucho Marx

“I’ve been on a calendar but I have never been on time”
Marilyn Monroe

“The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time”
Leo Kennedy

“Time nor tide wait for no man or woman”

“Tough times never last, but tough people do!”
Robert Schuller

“Time and tide wait for none.”

“A stitch in time saves nine.”

“The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realise you’re not in shape for it, it’s far too far to walk back.”
Franklin P Jones

“Nothing lasts forever – not even your troubles”
Arnold H Glasgow

“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.”
Milton Berle

“Time, the subtle thief of youth”
John Milton Sonnets

“And he that will not apply New Remedies, must expect New Evils; for Time is the greatest Innovator.”
Francis Bacon Essays: Of Innovations

“Lost time is never found again”
Benjamin Franklin Ibid 1743

“Remember that time is money”
Benjamin Franklin Advice to a Young Tradesman

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

“Time is the great physician”
Benjamin Disraeli Endymion

“There’s a gude time coming”
Sir Walter Scott Rob Roy

“Veritum dies aperit” (Time discovers the truth)
Seneca De Ira

“O, call back yesterday, bid time return”
William Shakespeare King Richard II

“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for hours will take care of themselves”
Philip Dormer Stanhope – 4th Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son

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Thomas Jefferson about the life.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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Otto von Bismarck.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others’ experience.

I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

Otto von Bismarck has performed great services for his country, till now he remains one of the most significant political figures of modern Germany. During his life Otto von Bismarck pursued the idea of German unification. As a result, Germany grew into a powerful empire under its iron chancellor. For example thanks to him Germany became the first nation in the world to adopt an old-age social insurance program in 1889, designed by Germany’s Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The idea was first put forward, at Bismarck’s behest, in 1881 by Germany’s Emperor, William the First, in a ground-breaking letter to the German Parliament. William wrote: “. . .those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state.”

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