The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous. More Jerome Jerome [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. More Friedrich Nietzsche [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. More John Locke [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. More William Morris [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Others have done it before me. I can, too. More William Faulkner [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. More John Locke [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship. More George Eliot Mary [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. More Henry Ford [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks. More Charles Dickens [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. More Bernard M. Baruch [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. More Vitaly Goldman [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. More Woody Allen [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect. More William Blake [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action. More Maria Voloschuk [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. More Daniel Defoe [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. More Thomas Mann [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. More Franklin Roosevelt [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

He that is rich is wise. More Daniel Defoe [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle. More Charlotte Perkins Gilman [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. More Jerome Jerome [01/01/2000 12:01:00]