There are some quotations which stick in my mind.

Einstein said I have no special talents, I am just passionately curious. Read this as a teenager, and it inspired me to be always curious. Hasn't made me another Einstein, but provided me with good brain food.

Lucius Anneus Seneca's [circa 5 bc-65 ad] qotation that Malice drinks half it's own poison has also influenced my attitude to my fellow man, though there have been occasions when anger has made me temporarily forget his words.

Dear worldwatcher,

Here's a couple of my favourites:

Along a straight road you will travel faster
but you will see less.
(Old Lithuanian saying).

To hear is God's gift. To listen must be learnt.
(Old Lithuanian saying).

You cannot demand the same from a sparrow as
from an eagle.
(Old Lithuanian saying).

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant.
(Robert Louis Stevenson).

...A book by itself is nothing - a film shown in
an empty cinema: one can only assess its value
by the light it brings to a child's eye.
(Elaine Moss).

Every one of those is a pearl Lexi, but particularly like the one written by Elaine Moss.

I've noticed that you can be relied upon always to have kind thoughts for everyone who posts on the Forum.

Your personality shines through in your posts.

Early wishes to you for a happy new year.

Two that I first saw put together by Robert Fulghum
(I knew them individually but seeing them together was the key point)

- The unexamined life is not worth living
- Ignorance is bliss

Fulghum is an author who has put a bunch of things together in ways that have given me cause to think a little differently about things. That particular combination is the pearl of wisdom that comes to mind when I think of favourite quotes that have influenced my life.

R0bert

Dear worldwatcher,

Thank You for your kind words.

Here's a couple of funny ones that I found
on the web and enjoyed:

When you're down by the sea
and an eel bites your knee,
that's a moray.

Hokey Pokey anonymous:
A place to turn yourself around.

I always liked one saying that I can't remember who wrote it...
It's not the size of the ocean that counts, but the motion of the ocean.

If can have many meanings, and some are quite ... naughty :) !

Hogamus higamus
Men are polygamous
Higamus hogamus
Women monogamous

Be kind

Question authority

This too shall pass

There are so many quotes which I find inspiring - so I'm sure I'll add a few here in time.

Einstein said:

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

And a Tibetan proverb:

"Wherever you feel most comfortable, that is your home. Whoever shows you greatest kindness and comfort, they are your family."

Goethe:

"Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Pearls of wisdome! Who canm afford pearls of any kind, with this government spending like crazy.

Dear Hasbeen,

There's nothing that kills wisdom faster than
quick judgement.
;-)

Lexi my sweet, this judgement is far from swift. It has taken over 4 years to mature, as has the government, & both stink in a similar manner.

WW, I only have one at the moment, it’s utilitarian and a real basic common sense commandment, particularly for business applications.

“Expect what you inspect”

If you don’t check, don’t be surprised if it is not right.

Dear WW,

Mine I have cherished for a long time and it has probably influenced too many of my choices to be really health;

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
Ogden Nash

Woody Allan Dialogue

Psychiatrist: Do you think sex is dirty?

Woody: It is if your doing it right.

Dear Hasbeen,

If it's taken you four years it obviously wasn't
quick judgement. However you should know -
over thinking also kills wisdom. ;-)

Groucho Marx Dialogue

Groucho To Widow:

Will you marry me?
Was your husband rich?
Please answer the second question first!

I sometimes consider these two "wise sayings" -

"He who hesitates is lost" and "look before you leap".
A bit of a conflict there?

Then I realise that you can't depend on faith in simple platitudes to get you through life but may need to make personal adjustments where necessary.

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel (fl. 30 BC - 10 AD)

I don't have any sayings, but I have always believed, & lived my life to the belief, that you can do anything, provided you want it enough.

It's worked for me.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
(Dorothy Parker).

In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: it goes on.
(Robert Frost).

Hasbeen,

You will probably enjoy this one.

Question: What is an elephant?

Answer: A mouse built to government specifications.

Thanks for the chuckle WW.

That would be similar to that horse designed by a committee, the camel.

Hasbeen

Yes you do have a saying, and it's your own. It's also a very good quote to heed.

Lexi m'dear,

This one from Winston Churchill you'd agree with.
" I am an optimist. It doesn't seem much use to be anything else"

One time it is better to take the longer road? When you're a taxi driver

Another good one here SonofGloin,

To those who say love is more important than money, try paying your bills with a hug.

Here's another one from Dorothy Parker:

I like to have a martini
Two at the very most
After three I'm under the table
After four I'm under the host.

Not sure who said this:

The early bird gets the worm,
But it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

If Michelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel
would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
(Rita Mae Brown).

Rain doesn't fall on the just and unjust alike.
The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

Hasbeen,

re your horse and camel. Hmmm, sounds like I just added another wrinkle to an old chestnut didn't I ?

"To learn that a man [sic] has said or done a foolish thing is nothing; a man must learn that he is nothing but a fool, a much more ample and important instruction".
Montaigne.

“That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”
— Chinese Proverb

"Do you need proof of God? Does one light a torch to see the sun?"
— Japanese Proverb

Have you learned lessons only of those who admire you, and were tender with you, and stood aside of you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you, or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
— Walt Whitman

Hay I do have a favourite, & it just came to mind.

It comes from Michener's Hawaii, talking about the missionaries who went to Hawaii from the US, to convert the heathen.

They are talking about the land holdings in the islands & say, "The missionaries came to do good, & did very very well" [for them selves of course].

Somehow it always pops into my mind, when ever the topic turns to welfare NGOs.