The gentleman is harmonious…
The gentleman is harmonious but not conformable; the small man is conformable but not harmonious. – Confucius (551? – 479B.C.): Lun Yü [The Analects (of Confucius)] (trans. by Kô Shyôrin (1958 – )) More »
The gentleman is harmonious but not conformable; the small man is conformable but not harmonious. – Confucius (551? – 479B.C.): Lun Yü [The Analects (of Confucius)] (trans. by Kô Shyôrin (1958 – )) More »
Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. – Gaius [Caius] Julius Caesar (c.100 – 44B.C.) More »
A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking. More »
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. – James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce (1882 – 1941) More »
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth – Hammurabi (c.1810? – 1750B.C.): Code of Hammurabi / You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ – Bible: “The… More »
You must be the change you want to see in the world. [You should be the change that you wish to see in the world. / Be the change you wish to see in other people.] – Mahatma [Mohandas Karamchand]… More »
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. – B. B. King [Riley B. King] (1925 – 2015) More »
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. – William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) More »
Where there is a will, there is a way. / Do and it will be done; don’t do and it will not be done: if something is not done, that is because no one did it. – Uesugi Yôzan [Uesugi… More »
(It’s like) Plowing the sand(s). / (It’s like) Bolting a door with a boiled carrot. More »