The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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Margot Fonteyn
Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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Samuel Butler
Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it?
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Kevin Costner
When a man is gloomy everything seems to go wrong when he is cheerful everything seems right!
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Bible
More Quotes By John Locke
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of...
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
