One proverb/maxim will be posted per day from Paul Belz's book Wisdom To Go, a collection of 550 proverbs, maxims and axioms collectively comprising a philosophy of life.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Courage
Courage is the footstool of
the virtues, upon which they stand.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Monday, July 21, 2014
Courage
Be like a bird who Halting
in his flight On limb too slight Feels it give way beneath him, Yet sings
Knowing he hath wings. Victor Hugo
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Costs
When we buy things we should
think not of the dollar cost but their labor cost, that is, the amount of life
we have to give up to obtain the money to buy the things in question. Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Corruption
Describing someone who is
brilliant but corrupt: “Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and
stinks.”
