truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:15 am

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:17 am

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:18 am

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:21 am

What is easy is seldom excellent.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:23 am

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:23 am

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:38 am

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca