Squeezing Volumes Into Sentences

Common Sense Commentary: No body ever learned anything from his own conversation.  My dad, Robert Blair  

Spend less than you make, have more than you show and speak less than you know.

Shakespeare

I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.  Bill Cosby

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
François de La Rochefoucauld

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.  Leo Aikman

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.  Albert Einstein

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.  Aristotle... That is good, but I prefer
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom" Psalmist David (RB)

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Paulo Coelho

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy

The best mind-altering drug is truth.
Lily Tomlin

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield

A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

Guns don’t kill people, people do.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozel

The best things in life aren’t things.
Art Buchwald

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
Irish Proverb

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
Albert Einstein

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill