Mark Twain quote that is thought-provoking

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.-Mark Twain

Interesting quote on anger

Don't presume the world was constructed specifically to annoy you.Stop personalizing everything.That rude cashier isn't just rude to you.She is rude to everybody.If her mother couldn't teach her not to be rude by age 25,how are you going to do it in a five-minute conversation?-Peter Favaro in
ANGER MANAGEMENT:SIX CRITICAL STEPS TO A CALMER LIFE.

Interesting quote by R.A.Butler

In politics you must always keep running with the pack.The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured,the rest will turn on you like wolves.-R.A.Butler

Good Goethe quote

To rule is easy;to govern is difficult.-Goethe

Good Mark Twain quote

1.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do.-Mark Twain

Good Mark Twain quote

1.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do.-Mark Twain

Some interesting quotes

1.Great fury,like great whiskey,requires long fermentation.-Truman Capote
2.Use power to curb power.-Chinese proverb.
3.When you live next to the cemetery,you cannot weep for everyone.-Russian proverb
4.When the time comes,even a rat becomes a tiger.-Japanese proverb

A few thought-provoking quotes

1.If we're not enthusiastic,we can't get things done.If we're over-enthusiastic,we run into the danger of being fanatical.-Woodrow Wyatt.
2.Do not be too moral.You may cheat yourself out of much life so.Aim above morality.Be not simply good,be good for something-Henry David Thoreau.
3.One looks up to a worthy person as one looks up to a mountain.-Chinese proverb.
4.Words are the only things that last forever.-William Hazlitt.

Two good quotes from psychologists

1.When something is too readily available----we often don't want it.Who likes to eat in an empty restaurant?-U.S.psychologist Robert Levine.
2.The British have gained a reputation for being slow to anger because they stand in disciplined lines,but the more likely explanation is that they are so easily angered
that they need the protection of queues.-Oxford psychologist Peter Collett.

Good Noam Chomsky quote

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,we don't believe in it at all.-Noam Chomsky.

Good Coleman McCarthy quote

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking.If it did our problems would have stopped millennia ago.-Coleman McCarthy.

Quotes I like

1.There are lights everywhere except in the minds of men.-Herbert Read.
2.It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.-Chinese proverb.
3.Who does not thank for little will not thank for much-Estonian proverb.

Good Antoine de St.Exupery quote

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.-Antoine de St.Exupery.