Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

(selected, assembled & distributed weekly by R. Varga / Johns Creek GA)

“If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life.”

- Siberian Proverb

“Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”

- Sydney J. Harris

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”

Chinese Proverb

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”

- Charlotte P. Gillman

“The value of paper money is precisely the value of a politician's promise, as high or low as you put that; the value of gold is protected by the inability of politicians to manufacture it.”

- Sir William Rees-Mogg

“Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.”

- Yahia Lababidi

“Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

- Proverbs 16:18

“Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.”

- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“You have to choose as a voter between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Those who enter to buy, support me.

Those who come to flatter, please me.

Those who complain teach me how I may please others so that more will come.

Only those hurt me who are displeased but do not complain.

They refuse me permission to correct my errors so that I may improve my service.”

- Marshall Field

“Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces.”

- Judith Viorst

“If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function, it must have dissent.”

- Henry Steele Commager

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.   Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another – their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.”

- Ayn Rand

“Treat the media as you would any other watchdog. Stay calm. Be friendly. Let them sniff your hand - and never turn your back.”

- Zack Burnett

“Two step formula for handling stress: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. Remember that it's all small stuff.”

- Anthony Robbins

“Self-pity and gratitude are mortal enemies. Where one exists the other cannot. Since both are highly contagious, individuals must choose gratitude before becoming too thankless to do otherwise.”

- Mike Adams