Everyone has his particular habit. / Every man has his faults. – William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): Timon of Athens (Image by Lemonsandtea on Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
No man can have every man’s good word. More »
An honest man feels that he must pay Heaven for every hour of happiness with a good spell of hard unselfish work to make others happy. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume… More »
Everyone is kin to the rich man. More »
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) More »
![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 »
No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to nobody. – Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852) More »
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe [George Herman] Ruth (1895 – 1948) More »
An aged man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick, unless / Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress. // – W. B. [William Butler]… More »
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a… More »
![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: Know thyself. [Know yourself.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bustos-756620_640-100x67.jpg)
