One ofthe lessons

One ofthe lessons
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

Jan, 21 2012     105 chars (1 sms)     1221 views       Quotes

more Quotes SMS Messages

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
Between friends there is no need of Justice.
Necessity truns lion into fox.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.
We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.
I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.
Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.
He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.