Morning Coffee Quotes

Northern Wisconsin Sunset - photo by Cindy Caraway

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
- George Bernard Shaw

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
- Epictetus

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
- Vaclav Havel

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
- L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

"Charity sees the need, not the cause."
- German Proverb

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
- Pericles

"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."
- Norman Douglas

"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable."
- Hosea Ballou

"We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering.
We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for."
- Eric Hoffer

"Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting.
Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
- Confucius

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan

"What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving."
- Adrian Rogers

"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."
- Ben Johnson

"At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the bulls eye around the spot where it lands."
- Warren Buffett

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."
- Orson Welles

"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."
- Seneca

"The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered."
- Andre Gide

"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."
- Francis Bacon