Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ... by Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ...
by Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham

Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ...by Confucius

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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ...
by Confucius