777+ Aphorisms, Quotes and Pearls of wisdom about life.

“Some people are so poor, all they have is money”
-Bob Marley

I’m going to tell you something: Thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.
Albert Camus

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."
-Ernest Hemingway

“Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint Genet

"I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own."
Nikola Tesla

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Confucius

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Lao Tzu

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

Measure twice cut once. 🔪

Don't judge a book by its cover.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.

Know which side your bread is buttered on. 🧈

A penny saved is a penny earned.

All things come to those who wait.

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. 🐴

Eat to live; don't live to eat.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. 👨‍🏫

All that glitters isn't gold.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

East or west, home is best. 🏡

You need to take a bull by the horns, and a man by his word.

A barking dog never bites.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 💖

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.

You made your bed, now lie in it. 🛌

He who hesitates is lost.

If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. 😥

Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.

Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another 🏃‍♀️

Actions speak louder than words.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.