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    Kindness
  1. Kindness is always fashionable.
       -- Amelia E. Barr

  2. Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
       -- Christian Nestell Bovee

  3. You can get more with a kind word and a gun, than you can get with a kind word alone.
       -- Johnny Carson

  4. When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
       -- Willa Cather

  5. Forget injuries; never forget kindness.
       -- Confucius

  6. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
       -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  7. If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
       -- William Feather

  8. He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
       -- Benjamin Franklin

  9. Kindness begets kindness.
       -- Greek Proverb

  10. Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
       -- Sir Arthur Helps

  11. Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
       -- Kin Hubbard

  12. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
       -- Washington Irving

  13. Human kindness is like a defective tap. The first gush may be impressive, but the stream soon dries up.
       -- P.D. James

  14. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
       -- Samuel Johnson

  15. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
       -- Joseph Joubert

  16. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness is giving creates love.
       -- Lao-Tse

  17. Not always actions show the man: we find,
    Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
       -- Alexander Pope

  18. Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
       -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  19. I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
       -- Mother Teresa

  20. We hate the kindness which we understand.
       -- Henry David Thoreau

  21. Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
       -- Rebecca West

  22. So many gods, so many creeds,
    So many paths that wind and wind
    While just the art of being kind
    Is all the sad world needs.
       -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  23. One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
       -- Oscar Wilde

  24. The best portion of a good man's life,
    His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
    Of kindness and of love.
       -- William Wordsworth


    King
  1. Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues.
       -- Agesilaus II

  2. A king is one who has "few things to desire and many things to fear."
       -- Francis Bacon

  3. The right kind of monarchy is one where everybody goes about with the permanent conviction that the king can do no wrong.
       -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

  4. Wise kings generally have wise counsellors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
       -- Diogenes

  5. The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
       -- Austin O'Malley

  6. One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion.
       -- Thomas Paine

  7. Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.
       -- Plato

  8. Kings is mostly rapscallions.
       -- Mark Twain


    Kiss
  1. God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
       -- Henry Ward Beecher

  2. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
       -- Ingrid Bergman

  3. It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
       -- Christian Nestell Bovee

  4. What of the soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop.
       -- Robert Browning

  5. What lies lurk in kisses.
       -- Heinrich Heine

  6. Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
       Jumping from the chair she sat in;
    Time, you thief, who love to get
       Sweets into your list, put that in!
    Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
       Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
    Say I'm growing old, but add,
       Jenny kiss'd me.
       -- [James] Leigh Hunt

  7. When women kiss it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
       -- H.L. Mencken

  8. Kissing don't last; cookery do.
       -- George Meredith

  9. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.
       -- Mistinguette

  10. A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
    A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving;
    'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
       -- Edmond Rostand

  11. A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth--and endures all the rest.
       -- Helen Rowland

  12. Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss froma pleasure into a duty.
       -- Helen Rowland

  13. Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
       -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  14. A peculiar proposition. Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to lie for it, and the old man has to buy it. The baby's right, the lover's privilege, and the hypocrite's mask. To a young girl,
       -- V.P.I. Skipper


    Knowledge
  1. They know enough who know how to learn.
       -- Henry Adams

  2. Knowledge is power--if you know it about the right people.
       -- Anon.

  3. All men by nature desire to know.
       -- Aristotle

  4. Knowledge is Power.
       -- Francis Bacon

  5. Knowledge and human power are synonyms.
       -- Francis Bacon

  6. I am not young enough to know everything.
       -- James Matthew Barrie

  7. He that knew all that learning ever writ,
    Knew only this--that he knew nothing yet.
       -- Aphra Behn

  8. I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
       -- Peter Benchley

  9. I am not wise. Not knowing, and learning to be comfortable with not knowing, is a great discovery.
       -- Sue Bender

  10. Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
       -- Ambrose Bierce

  11. The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
       -- Josh Billings

  12. Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
       -- Josh Billings

  13. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
       -- William Blake

  14. Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
       -- Sir Richard Francis Burton

  15. The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.
       -- Samuel Butler

  16. Much knowledge is a curse.
       -- Chang-Tzu

  17. Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
       -- Lord Chesterfield

  18. Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
       -- Arthur Hugh Clough

  19. We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.
       -- Charles Caleb Colton

  20. The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
       -- Confucius

  21. If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
       -- Letty Cottin

  22. I do not pretend to know what many ignoarant men are sure of.
       -- Clarence Darrow

  23. Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
       -- Will Durant

  24. Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
       -- Will Durant

  25. Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
       -- George Eliot

  26. Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
       -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  27. Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
       -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  28. The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.
       -- Martin H. Fisher

  29. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
       -- Henry Ford

  30. Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
       -- Kahlil Gibran

  31. True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
       -- Baltasar Gracián

  32. All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and existence; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
       -- William Hazlitt

  33. Mistakes are their own instructors.
       -- Horace

  34. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
       -- Thomas Huxley

  35. Ecery great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
       -- Thomas Huxley

  36. Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconcieved notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
       -- Thomas Huxley

  37. Knowledge also imposes responsibility.
       -- W.M.L. Jay

  38. Once you have discovered what is happening, you can't pretend not to know, you can't abdicate responsibility.
       -- P.D. James

  39. There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than our own.
       -- Cyril Joad

  40. Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
       -- Samuel Johnson

  41. man is not weak--knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
       -- Samuel Johnson

  42. All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
       -- Juvenal

  43. I keep six honest serving-men
      [They taught me all I knew];
    Their names are What and Why and When
      And How and Where and Who
       -- Rudyard Kipling

  44. Knowledge is much like dust--it sticks to one, one knows not how.
       -- L.E. Landon

  45. How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?
       -- Rosamond Lehmann

  46. Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a litle in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.
       -- Lawrence Lowell

  47. A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
       -- James Madison

  48. In much knowledge there is also much grief.
       -- Queen Marie of Romania

  49. I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in this world.
       -- Margaret Mead

  50. The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
       -- H.L. Mencken

  51. We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
       -- Maria Mitchell

  52. The learned is happy, nature to explore;
    The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
       -- Alexander Pope

  53. Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessaarily be infinite.
       -- Karl Popper

  54. We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
       -- Rutherford D. Rogers

  55. To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does.
       -- Eleanor Rooseveldt

  56. In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.
       -- Bertrand Russel

  57. There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
       -- Bertrand Russel

  58. As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
       -- Albert Schweitzer

  59. I am never afraid of what I know.
       -- Anna Sewell

  60. There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
       -- Rex Stout

  61. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
       -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  62. To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
       -- Henry David Thoreau

  63. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way.
       -- Mark Twain

  64. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
       -- Mark Twain

  65. We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
       -- John A. Wheeler

  66. I am not young enough to know everything.
       -- Oscar Wilde


    Koans
  1. we are so both and oneful
    night cannot be so sky
    sky cannot be so sunful
    i am through you so i
       -- e. e. cummings

  2. An ancient buddha said, "Mountains are mountains; waters are waters." These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
       -- Dogen

  3. What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
       -- Hakuin

  4. There is neither heaven nor earth, only snow, falling incessantly.
       -- Hashin

  5. Only one koan matters -- you.
       -- Ikkyu

  6. From the end of the nose of the Buddha on the moor, hang icicles.
       -- Issa

  7. The reverse side also has a reverse side.
       -- Japanese Proverb

  8. The desolation of winter; passing through a small hamlet, a dog barks.
       -- Shiki

  9. This table has four legs. A table with a broken leg remains a table. But a table from which the four legs have been removed becomes only a flat piece of wood. At what moment did it cease to be a table?
       -- Carlo Suares

  10. Zen is discipline in enlightenment.
       -- D. T. Suzuki

  11. When you eat, the meal is yourself.
       -- Zen Saying

  12. If you have no feelings about worldly things, they are all Buddhism; if you have feelings about Buddhism, it is a worldly thing.
       -- Zen Saying

  13. Venerable Nan-Ch'uan asked Chao-chou, "When not a single thing is brought, then what?"
    Chao-chou said, "Put it down."
    Nan-ch'uan said, "If I don't bring a single thing, what should I put down?"
    Chao-chou said, "Then carry it out."
       -- Zen Saying

  14. Knock on the sky and listen to the sound!
       -- Zen Saying

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