Cool Quotes for Iyar

Compiled by Brielle Goodman
Johns Hopkins University
KOACH on Campus Editor

To smile at your neighbor is more important than to treat him to a drink.

- Johanan b. Nappaha, Talmud: Ketubot

Ultimate perfection does not include any action or good conduct, but only knowledge.

- Maimonides, "Guide for the Perplexed"

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

- Annie Lennox

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

- Thomas Jefferson

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

- Lord Chesterfield

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

- Derwood Fincher

Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai...used to say: If you have a sapling in your hand, and someone should say to you that the Messiah has come, stay and complete the planting, and then go to greet the Messiah.

- Avot de Rabbi Nathan, 31b

Ease destroys bravery, trouble...creates strength.

- Maimonides, "Guide for the Perplexed"

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth... Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

- Noela Evans

[Posted 4/19/04]