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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud." »Confucius
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"If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." »Chinese Proverb
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"The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials." »Chinese Proverb
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"A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials." »Chinese Proverb
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"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." »Chinese
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"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." »Chinese Proverb
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"Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored." »Lord Byron, Don Juan
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"The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation." »Edward Chapin
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"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society." »Edmund Burke
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"When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword." »Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished." »Sharon Salzberg
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"“Those who are successful give credit to their mistakes and give them a polished new name, experience."" »Steve Maraboli
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"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start." »Mother Teresa
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"I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads." »Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration
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"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." »Homer, The Odyssey
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"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." »Homer
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