![IMAGE: Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur. [Once-in-a-lifetime encounter.] / Opportunity knocks but once. [Opportunity knocks only once.] / Opportunity seldom knocks twice.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tea-680540_640-200x133.jpg)
Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur. [Once-in-a-lifetime encounter.] – YAMANOUE no Sôji (1544 – 90): Yamanoue no Soji ki [The Record of Soji YAMANOUE] “Ten Elements of Preparedness for Tea Practitioners” / Opportunity knocks but once. [Opportunity knocks… More »
![IMAGE: The Child is father of the Man. [The Child is the father of the Man.] / A leopard cannot change his spots.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/dad-909510_640-200x110.jpg)
The Child is father of the Man. [The Child is the father of the Man.] – William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850): My Heart Leaps Up / A leopard cannot change his spots. More »
Know him? I know him so well that I haven’t spoken to him for ten years. – Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) More »
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. – Robert Redford (1936 – ) More »
Everybody had a hard year; / Everybody had a good time. // – John Lennon (1940 – 80); Paul McCartney (1942 – ) “The Beatles”: I’ve Got a Feeling More »
You can live a lie until you die. / One thing you can’t hide / Is when you’re crippled inside. // – John Lennon (1940 – 80): Crippled Inside More »
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished. – Antonie [Anton/Antoni/Antony] van Leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723) More »
Even in small matters it is best to have an experienced guide. – Yoshida Kenkô (1283? – 1352?): Tsure-zure Gusa Section 52 More »
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo (1802 – 85) More »
A man always has two reasons for doing anything — a good reason and the real reason. – J. P. [John Pierpont] Morgan (1837 – 1913) More »
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: You cannot eat your cake and have it (too). [You cannot have your cake and eat it (too).]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cake-1746435_640-100x56.jpg)
![IMAGE: Seize the day(, trusting the future [the next day] as little as possible). [(La.) Carpe diem(, quam minimum credula postero).]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/picking-flowers-391610_640-100x75.jpg)