Perception, Freedom, Attitude, Friends Quotations

PERCEPTION
Anais Nin
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

FREEDOM
Marina Tsvetayeva
Freedom – a drunken whore sprawling in a power-maddened soldier’s arms.

ATTITUDE
Booker Taliaferro Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

FRIENDS
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Self, Democracy, Attitude, Marriage Quotes

SELF
Dan Millman
Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.

DEMOCRACY
Betrand Russell
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

ATTITUDE
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.

MARRIAGE
George Mendoza
You never saw any husband writing an alimony check in Norman Rockwell’s America.

Travel, Communism, Attitude, Argument

TRAVEL

Thomas Fuller
Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

COMMUNISM

Henry Louis Mencken
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophesies.

ATTITUDE

Bertie Charles Forbes
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.

ARGUMENT

Edward Gibbon
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinion I have no respect.