Quotations

Friendship
Love
On Wisdom
Proverbs
Humourous
Winners
Truth
Faith
Dreams
Work and Success
Principles
Women
Youth
Other Good Quotes

Poems
and
Parables:

Scouting Poetry
Consider
The Rover Prayer
When You Walk
Through The Woods

On My Honour
I Am The Child
I AM
Your State of Mind

Religious Poetry
The World is Mine
What God Hath
Promised

Footprints
Healer's Hymn
(Latin)
(English)

Jason 'Bark' Barker
Life
The Sun
Friendship

John 'Flip' James
Words
We Two Parted
Of Times Past
Once more alive?
Here Stands...

Mary McTaggart
(née Morrison)

The Sacrifice
Tragedy

Miscellaneous Poetry
Rivendell Valley
Angels
Declaration of
Principles

The Second Coming
Sea Fever
I Know Not Who I Are
Wordsworth
The Joys of the Road
Weep No More
Never Love
Around The Corner
A Song for Tricia

Parables:
When Night Ends
Thoughts on God
Everybody's Canoe
The Russians
A Closed Hand
Can't Receive

Five Great Lessons
Non-Denominational
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

Wisdom & Proverbs

Wisdom

"Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
William Cowper

"No man is wise who is not good. No man is wise who is not humble."
Unknown

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
George Santayana

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
Jonathan Swift


Proverbs

Alles van waarde is weerloos
(Everything of value is defenseless)
Author Unknown

"A stumble may prevent a fall."
English proverb

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
African proverb

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese Proverb

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
Anonymous

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Frank Herbert, Dune--Santayana

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Chinese Proverb

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Mother Teresa

"He who saves a life, saves the world in time."
Jewish Proverb

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."
Rose Lane

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
Alexander Graham Bell

"What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost."
Old Epitaph

"Never fear answers; only fear running out of questions."
Ivanova, Babylon-5

"The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold"
Danish Proverb



This page was last updated on Friday, 29 March 2002.
Created: 27 November 1995.
Assembled by Michael Flynn.