Quotes and Translations
Today's Quote
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

Today's Quotes

  1. When you're drowning you don't think, <em>I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me.</em> You just scream. John Lennon
  2. Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato
  3. She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. Dorothy Parker
  4. People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh
  5. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. George Orwell