#aphorism

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer ↗

— Sun Tzu

#sun-tzu #enemy

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny-quotes #humor-quotes #inspirational #iving #making-a-difference

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aphorism #best #consists #exclusively #greatest

Embrace aging. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#aphorisms #age

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it. ↗

— Mark Leidner

#writing #beauty

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today. ↗

— Idries Shah

#big-picture #lack-of-knowledge #lack-of-perspective #rigidity #design

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#russian-poetry #tsvetaeva #wisdom #freedom

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free. ↗

— William Penn

#art

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#melancholy #misery #syllogism #misery

That which yields is not always weak. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#flexibility #weakness