Words of The Wise

A few great quotes I borrowed from Liz Callihan's blog.

Life

• Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
  - Christopher Morley

Friendship

• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
  - Aristotle
  
• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
  - George Washington
  
• We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
  - Thucydides
  
• The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
  - Walt Whitman
  
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
  - Publilius Syrus

Love

• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
  - Bertrand Russell
  
• Love is everything it's cracked up to be...It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
  - Erica Jong
  
• But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
  - Jane Austen
  
• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
  - Peter Ustinov

Humility

• Life is a long lesson in humility.
  - J.M. Barrie
  
• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
  - Confucius
  
• It well becomes a young man to be modest.
  - Titus Maccius Plautus