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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain
Fasten your safety belts, clench your buttocks!
It's going be a bumpy ride!
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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