Morning Coffee Quotes

"Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief."
- C. S. Lewis

"Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike."
- Germaine de Stael

"The person I miss most is the one I could have been."
- George Bernard Shaw

"The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say."
- Kahlil Gibran

"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
- Charles F. Kettering

"The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present."
- Harlan Miller

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
- Edgar Allen Poe

"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."
- George Herbert

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."
- Paul Valery

"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
- William James

"Whatever limits us we call fate."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."
- Franklin P. Jones

"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."
- Anais Nin

"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."
- William Shakespeare

"When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick."
- Bill Lemley

"In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged."
- Clinton Rossiter