All Quotes

"季文子三思而後行。子聞之曰、再、斯可矣。"

"知之者不如好之者，好之者不如樂之者。"

"中人以上、可以語上也、中人以下、不可以語上也。"

"知者樂水，仁者樂山。知者動，仁者静。知者樂，仁者寿。"

"務民之義、敬鬼神而遠之。可謂知矣。"

"君子博學於文、約之以禮、亦可以弗畔矣夫。"

"仁者先難而後獲，可謂仁矣。"

"To rank the effort above the prize may be called love."

"Cornered vessel without corners, strange cornered vessel, strange cornered vessel."

"不憤不啟；不悱不發。擧一隅，不以三隅反，則不復也。"

"三人行，必有我師焉：擇其善者而從之，其不善者而改之。"

"君子坦蕩蕩，小人長戚戚。"

"德之不修，學之不講，聞義不能徒，不善不能改，是吾憂也。"

"默而識之，學而不厭，誨人不倦，何有於我哉？"

"邦有道貧且賤焉恥也，邦無道富且貴焉恥也。"

"A man's character is formed by the Odes, developed by the Rites and perfected by music."

"【第三章】【一節】司馬牛問仁。"

"The man of perfect virtue is cautious and slow in his speech. When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?"

"【第四章】【一節】司馬牛問君子。子曰"

"The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear. When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?"

"君子敬而無失，與人恭而有禮，四海之內，皆兄弟也，君子何患乎無兄弟也！"

"Let the superior man never fail reverentially to order his own conduct, and let him be respectful to others and observant of propriety:—then all within the four seas, all men are brothers. What has the superior man to do with being distressed because he has no brothers?"

"去食、自古皆有死、民無信不立。"

"If the people have no faith in their rulers, there is no standing for the state."

"【十五章】子曰、博學於文、約之以禮、亦可以弗畔矣夫。"

"By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right."

"好知不好學，其蔽也蕩"

"唯女子與小人爲難養也！近之則不孫，遠之則怨。"

"年四十而見惡焉，其終也已。"

"君子安而不忘危，存而不忘亡，治而不忘亂。是以身安而國家可保也。"

"以直報怨，以德報德。"

"A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all."

"A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name."

"I have, over the years, received in the mail approximately 17 million manuscripts from people whose goal is to become professional writers. They want me to discover them, encourage them, mentor them, find them an agent, etc. Some of these people have talent; some of them have actually become professional writers. But a great many of them will never become professional writers, because- follow me closely here- they are not good at writing. Of course I don't tell them that. Probably nobody will ever tell them that. They will continue to try and fail, and in the end they'll be bitter, like the early-round contestants on American Idol who think they got booted because Simon Cowell is mean, rather than because their singing sounds like a bull being castrated with a hockey stick. These contestants humiliated themselves on national TV because when they were growing up, loving to sing, always singing around the house, no thoughtful family member or caring friend ever had the kindness to put a hand on their shoulder and say, in a gentle and loving voice, "You suck." They needed Simon Cowells, but instead they were surrounded by Randy Jacksons and Paula Abduls, trying to be nice, not wanting to hurt their feelings, and thus setting them up for failure."

"Here's the problem: A lot of parents are insane. You may be one of these parents without knowing it, because the craziness takes over you gradually."

"I think that parents- not all of them, but a lot of them- are sucking the fun out of kids' sports. They're making it clear to their kids that they think sports is about winning, and only winning. This is a reasonable value to instill if you honestly believe your child is going to become a professional athlete. But you need to remember two things: 1. Your child is not, in fact, going to become a professional athlete. 2. There are more important things in life than winning. Such as not being a jerk."

"Your kids don't need you shouting at them on the playing field, any more than they need you shouting at them in the classroom. Let them play the game and figure out for themselves how they feel about it, without having to worry about your feelings, too. Make it clear that your happiness doesn't depend on the score. Cheer for your kid, sure, but do it cheerfully. If you can't manage that, take a walk; the game will go on fine without you, because it's not about you."

"• More than 1,000 people move to Florida every day."

"• Roughly eight of these people understand the purpose of the turn signal."

"• Florida’s government is divided into three branches: the executive, the judicial and the criminal."

"• Under Florida’s “stand your ground” law, it is legal to shoot anybody for any reason as long as you are standing on the ground."

"To begin with, sponges are not plants. They are multicelled animals, although they have no mouth, internal organs, brains or nervous systems. They cannot move, but they can reproduce, eat, grow and obtain Florida driver’s licenses. I’m kidding about that last one, sort of."

"Suddenly, I noticed something: my wallet and keys are exactly where I left them. So either the spirits decided not to move them or—we cannot rule this out – they moved them and then moved them back."

"There comes a time in a man’s life when a man must man up and be a man by summoning up his manhood and doing something manly."

"I am a huge fan of females as a gender, but they tend to display baffling lack of enthusiasm for violent destruction. Show me a group of individuals who are spending a Sunday afternoon entertaining themselves by using explosives to blow up, say, major appliances, and I will show you a group of males."

"He is a tall, trim, sinewy man with a full beard, a deep voice and a handshake that would crush a coconut. He could be a testosterone donor."

"This genre of music is called Electronic Dance Music, or sometimes Club Music, or sometimes just Loud Unimaginative Absurdly Repetitious Boring Music, because—follow me closely here—it sucks. That is only my opinion, of course; taste in music is subjective. It is possible that you like Electronic Dance Music, in which case you are wrong because it sucks."

"Key West, the end of the road, the most flamboyant, decadent, debauched and pungent place in the Florida. Key West is Florida’s Florida—the place way down at the bottom where the weirdest of the weird end up; the place where the abnormal is normal."

"On any given night, Key West’s main party drag, lower Duval Street, makes Bourbon Street look like Sesame Street."

"In case you’re wondering how the local political establishment feels about a strip club operating in the middle of the main tourist area, here’s a fact you may find helpful: The owner of the Red Garter is Mick Rossi, who is a Key West city commissioner."