Enjoyment
- Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
-- Hugh Blair
- Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
-- Francis Quarles
- If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
-- Glen Buck
- True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
-- Humboldt
- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
-- Mark Twain
- My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.
-- Thornton Wilder
Error
- The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-- Edward Phelps
- An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
-- Orlando A. Battista
- If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- The proper method for hastening the decay of error is ... by teaching every man to think for himself.
-- William Godwin
- To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
-- Josh Jenkins
- Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
-- Mary Baker Eddy
- A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
-- Jeremy Taylor
- It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Error is discipline through which we advance.
-- William Ellery Channing
- No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
-- Thomas Hobbes
- Give me a productive error over a boring, mundane and unproductive fact any day.
-- Anon.
Experience
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
-- Rodin
- Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
-- Judith Stern
- A burnt child dreads the fire.
-- English Proverb
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
-- Patrick Henry
- We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
-- Josh Billings
- Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
-- Josh Billings
- Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde
- A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
-- James Russell Lowell
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
-- Vernon Saunders Law
- Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.
-- Anon.
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain
Extravagance
- An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
-- Franklin P. Jones
- All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
-- Saki
- He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.
-- Japanese Proverb
- Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
-- Oscar Wilde
- That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
-- Richard Whately
Extremes
- Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
-- George Chapman
- Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
-- Robert Frost
- Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.
-- Seigneur de Saint-Evremond
- I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
-- Barry M. Goldwater
- In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.
-- Plautus
- Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye
- Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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