Thoughts of legends 6

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year. — Damon Runyan (1884-1946)
When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong, no one forgets. — Irish proverb
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. — Carl Jung (1875-1961)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. — Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason. — Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile, and it smiles, too. — Herbert Samuel (1870-1963)
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. — Marian Anderson (1902-1993)
Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came. — Giovanni Ruffini (1807-1881)
People love to talk but hate to listen. — Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942)
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. — William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Those who give have all things. Those who withhold have nothing. — Hindu proverb
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Many people’s tombstones should read, “Died at 30. Buried at 60.” — Nicholas Murray Butler, American educator (1862-1947)
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. — Ecclesiastes 1:18
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. — Oscar Levant (1906-1972)
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. — John Cage (1912-1992)
If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now. — Russian proverb

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