學做人

閱畢金庸先生的笑傲江湖新版,十分喜歡這段文字，節錄如下：

「佛家講求湼槃，首先得做到無欲無求，這才能無拘無束。但人生在世，要吃飯，要穿衣，要顧到別人，豈能當真無欲無求？湼槃是『無為境界』，我們做人是『有為境界』。在有為境界中，只要沒有不當的欲望，就不會受不當的束縛，那使是逍遙自在了。」

Quotation from 李天命

人真渺小，但又會自我膨賬，比宇宙更神奇！


"別人對他九次好，只有一次不好，小心眼就只會記住那次的不好而忘掉那九次的好。"

"看事情要全面，勿片面。憎惡別人，每每是由於看不到別人的優點。自卑，往往是由於看不到自已的優點。
總是看不到自己有優點的人，起碼有老實的優點。"

"妒忌心使人寧可接受不相識的人成功，而不能忍受朋友兄弟姐妹鄰人成功。"

"幽默的人不死板，幽默的人不死心眼，幽默能夠化解妒恨怨毒，沒有幽默感的人容易中毒。"

"東方傳統的掌權者似乎沒有什麼幽默感，東方傳統的知識分子亦然******放鬆一點才能明視距離，有助於看世事看得清，看得透，才能作為時代的眼睛。"

"天才是上天造出來的，凡人是父母生出來的，自大狂是自己脹出來的。"

"虛榮心推動人不停追逐未來的成功，而忽略了當下。問題是：除了當下，你還能夠在什麼時間當中生存？"

"淡永的人舉止自然，如行雲流水，因為随和、随緣、不貪、不熱衷追逐、不怨天尤人。淡永的人人人喜歡。"

"樂天安命的人，即使遭逢不幸，也不會認為世界是醜惡的。
有的人吃了一點虧就對人類失去信心，酸怨憤世，認為世界就是醜惡的。其實抱着這種態度才最吃虧。"

Quotations on "Books"

"No furniture so charming as books." Sydney Smith 1771-1845

"Classics. A book which people praise and don't read." Mark Twain 1835-1910

"A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever." Martin Tupper 1810-89

"A great book is like great evil." Callimachus c.305-c.240 BC

"There is no book so bad that some good cannot be got out of it." Pliny the Elder AD23-79

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with feelings of women in a drawing-room." Virginia Woolf 1882-1941

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Francis Bacon 1561-1626

Quotations on "Politics"

Can we live better without them?


"Man is by nature a political animal." Aristotle 384-322 BC

"Politics is the art of the possible." Otto von Bismarck 1815-98

"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight." Joseph Chamberlain 1836-1914

"Damn your principles! Stick to your party." Benjamin Disraeli 1804-81

"If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826

"If you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience well under control." David Lloyd George 1863-1945

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." Paul Valery 1871-1945

"Political language....is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell 1903-50

Quotations on "Money"

Exchange rate please?


"Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy." Spike Milligan 1918-2002

"If possible honestly, if not, somehow make money." Horace 65-8 BC

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand." Aphra Behn 1640-89

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread." Francis Bacon 1561-1626

"Money in turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did." James Baldwin 1924-87

"The sinews of war, unlimited money." Cicero 106-43 BC

"MR MICAWER: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." Charles Dickens 1812-70

Quotations on "Friendship"

"One soul inhabiting two bodies." Aristotle 384-322BC

"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages -- first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend." Anton Chekhov 1860-1904

"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." Samuel Johnson 1709-84

"Friendship is constant in all other things. Save in the office and affairs of love." William Shakespeare 1564-1616

"Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends." Francis Bacon 1909-92

"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports." Kenneth Branagh 1960-

"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship." Sallust 86-35BC

"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like the best, they are merely the people who got there first." Peter Ustinov 1921-2004

Quotations on "Marriage"

"The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three." Alexandre Dumas 1824-95

"Marriage isn't a word......it's a sentence!" King Vidor 1895-1982

"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters." Harold Nicolson 1886-1968

"Marriage is like life in this ---that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses." Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-94

"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else." Samuel Rogers 1763-1855

"Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!" Colley Cibber 1671-1757

"Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit." Billy Connolly 1942-

Quotations on "Quotation"

Winston Churchill

I love quotations. Reading quotations saves me a lot of time to obtain wisdom. I would like to share some famous quotations here with different subjects.

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." Winston Churchill 1874-1965

"I always have a quotation for everything -- it saves original thinking." Dorothy L. Sayes 1893-1957

"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." Simeon Strunsky 1879-1948

"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before." Mark Twain 1835-1910

"I know heaps of quotations, so I can always make quite a fair show of knowledge." O. Douglas 1877-1948