A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not. (The Talmud)
Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow. (Danish proverb)
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. (Persian Proverb)
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second. (Helen Hunt Jackson)
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. (Abraham Lincoln)
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. (Epictetus)
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. (Jonathan Larson)
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. (Publilius Syrus)
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read. (Charles Jones)
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. (Brian W. Kernighan)
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness. (Sarah McLachlan)
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. (George Smith Patton, Jr.)
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius)
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. (Benjamin Cohen)
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity (Edgar Allan Poe)
What we plan we build. (Conte Vittorio Alfieri)
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. (James Russell Lowell)
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. (Midori Koto)
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. (Joseph Hall)