Humorous Sayings

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Wit, he says in the Rhetoric (2, 12), is educated insolence.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Hope is a waking dream.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.