Just Jelan: October 2017

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

-- Samuel Johnson

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

-- Katherine Dunham

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

-- Carl Jung

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

-- G.K. Chesterton

A stumble may prevent a fall.

-- Variously attributed to Thomas Fuller or simply as an English proverb

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

-- John le Carré

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

-- Marie Benyon Ray

Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.

-- Samuel Goldwyn

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

-- Molly Ivins

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

-- Toni Morrison