Truth Quotes

Some good quotes on truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels’ bread when found.
~W. MacNeile Dixon

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

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

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
~Thomas Jefferson

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

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.
~Shoseki

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

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

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

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
~Leo Tolstoy

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

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
~Antonio Porchia

Temptation Quotes

Here are some temptation quotes.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
~ Bible

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
~Anonymous

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

I can resist everything except temptation.
~Oscar Wilde

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~T. S. Eliot

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~Benjamin Franklin

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~James Branch Cabell

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
~ Robert Orben

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
~W N Taylor

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
~Thomas Jefferson

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
~Lane Olinghouse

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
~Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values – and witnesses. ~Franklin P. Jones

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.
~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
~Margaret Oliphant

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
~Mark Twain

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
~Bible, Matthew 26:41

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
~Eduardo Galeano

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
~H. L. Mencken

Charity Quotes

Some quotes and sayings on Charity, the christian charity kind?

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
~Edmund Burke

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted.
~ Aesop

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~ Calvin Coolidge

He is truly great who hath a great charity.
~Thomas a Kempis

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Helen Keller

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind’s concern is charity.
~ Alexander Pope

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.
~Bible

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
~ Jack London

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ~William Hutton

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own..
~Confucius

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
~Zoroaster

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
~Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity begins at home, but should not end there
~Proverb

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
~Bertrand Russell

Life Quotes

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Anderson

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~Robert Byrne

A useless life is an early death.
~Goethe

Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
~Alan Bennett

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
~Chinese Proverb

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~Albert Einstein

A life without cause is a life without effect.
~Barbarella

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
~Alice Walker

Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
~Cherralea Morgen

The most decisive actions of our life … are most often unconsidered actions.
~André Gide

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
~Jack Handey

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~Emily Dickinson

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
~Dalai Lama

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
~Corita Kent

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
~Quentin Crisp

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
~George Sand

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
~Author Unknown

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
~Albert Einstein

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~Edith Wharton

Apology Quotes and Sayings

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
~Margaret Laurence

An apology is a good way to have the last word.
~Author Unknown

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~Kimberly Johnson

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
~ Red Auerbach

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Friends are God’s apology for relations.
~Hugh Kingsmill

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
~ John Milton

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
~Samuel Butler

My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.
~ Joan Rivers

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
~Jonathan Swift

Books Quotes and Sayings

Here are some sayings and quotes about book.

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
~James Bryce

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“I didn’t write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
~Larry Hagman

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
~Garrison Keillor

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way”
~Caroline Gordon

“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
~Samuel Johnson

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
~Aldous Huxley

“Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”
~ George William Curtis

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
~P. L. Travers

“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.’
~ Winston Churchill

“Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. ”
~François Mauriac

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ”
~P.J. O’Rourke

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ”
~Chinese Proverb

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
~Helen Exley

Today Quotes

Quotes about today.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Theodor Geisel

Today’s accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Earl Wilson

I’m trying to do the best I can. I’m not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Mark Spitz

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Alexis Arguello

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
~Benjamin Franklin

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~Leo F. Buscaglia

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live for today.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~ Abraham Lincoln

One today is worth two tomorrows.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
~Edgar Cayce

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
~ Dale Carnegie

Torture Quotes and Sayings

Quill is an implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
~Ambrose Bierce

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
~ James Anthony Froude

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”
~John Calvin

“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey’s records on.”
~Cameron Diaz

“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”
~Alan Feldman

“In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.”
~ Luis Bunuel

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
~John Calvin

“Love is a reciprocal torture.”
~Marcel Proust

” Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ”
~Arthur Eddington

“I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”
~Marquis De Sade

“If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water”
~ Bulgarian Proverb

“The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
~Carl Jung

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
~Lord Byron

“Chess is mental torture.”
~Garry Kasparov

“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services”
~Heraclitus of Ephesus

Chinese Proverbs

Here are some Chinese Proverbs and Chinese Sayings.

“Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.”

“Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.”

“When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy”

“Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies”

“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.’

“Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.”

“It is the beautiful bird which gets caged”

“Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.”

“The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.”

“He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.”

“A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.”

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.”

“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.”

“He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.”

“If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.”

“A smile will gain you ten more years of life.”

Some more Chinese proverbs