Morning Coffee Quotes

"There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something."
- John Dewey

"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."
- William Shakespeare

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
- Oscar Wilde

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
- Edmund Burke

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
- Winston Churchill

"Fear is the highest fence."
- Dudley Nichols

"Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure."
- The Talmud

"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."
- Wayne Dyer

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
- George Eliot

"Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore."
- Hindu Proverb

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Nobody ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
- C. S. Lewis

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
- Scottish Proverb

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again."
- Piet Hein

"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Well done, is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
- George Carlin

"Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them."
- John Wooden

"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better."
- Tryon Edwards