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13535 quotesOur insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Safety
Aesop
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Plodding wins the race.
Perseverance
Aesop
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Slow and steady wins the race.
Patience
Aesop
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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
Pain
Aesop
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Misfortunes
Aesop
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Enemies
Aesop
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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Mind
Aesop
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Difficulties
Publius Terentius Afer
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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Fools and Foolishness
African Proverb
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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
History and Historians
African Proverb
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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
Conceit
African Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
Enemies
African Proverb
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
Nationalities and Nationalism
James Agate
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Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
Literature
George Age
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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Media
Spiro T. Agnew
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Parents and Parenting
Ama Ata Aidoo
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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
Worry
Leo Aikman
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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Al-Nuri
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Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
Farming and Farmers
Henri Alain
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Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.
Guests
Albanian Proverb
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Humor
Edward Albee
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Creativity
Edward Albee
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A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Will and Will Power
Leon Battista Alberti
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Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
Funerals
Kehlog Albran
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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Possibilities
Kehlog Albran
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun