Misattributed Confucious Quotes

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~ Anonymous

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding. ~ William H. Whyte

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~ Robert Orben

Building Your Own Family Is Like A Contractor Without A Labour. ~ Mansah Bi Lartey

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. ~ Maurice Switzer

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these. ~ Lloyd Shearer

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. ~ Stephen R. Covey

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! ~ Frank Muir

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. ~ Emmett F. Fields

The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925. ~ Frederick Lewis Donaldson

A woman being never at a loss ... the devil always sticks by them. ~ George Gordon Byron

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline. ~ Peter De Vries

It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.

She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.

Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.

The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that's where the river will know
it's not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean. ~ Osho

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. ~ Gautama Buddha

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh ~ Tarrin P. Lupo

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. ~ Benjamin Franklin Wade

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ~ James Bovard

God made the world for the delight of human beings
if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us
you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His. ~ Mother Teresa

There are three types of lies
lies, damn lies, and statistics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
[Reviewing A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in New Directions for Women (1986)] ~ Marie Shear

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. ~ Henri Bergson

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. ~ Evans G. Valens

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. ~ Henry Thomas Buckle

You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily. ~ Walter M. Miller Jr.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. ~ Bette Midler

Meaning that history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books - books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' " He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie had never thought of it that way. ~ Dan Brown

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away! ~ Vicki Corona

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~ Anonymous

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.'
'John Lennon,' I say with a sigh. 'My mother is a huge fan.'
'So then you must know that every day, in every way, it's getting better. ~ Jamie Kain

No one should brave the underworld alone. ~ Poe

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. ~ Thomas Fuller

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ S.G. Tallentyre