Honesty / Human Relations / Happiness

• Truth often hurts, but it's the lie that leaves the scars.
• It is easy to tell one lie but difficult to tell only one.
• A lie has no legs; it has to be supported by other lies.
• A promise is something you can keep after giving it.
• The truth may hurt but a lie is agony.
• The person who is straightforward and honest doesn't have to worry about a faulty memory.
• The confession of a small truth sometimes covers a huge deception.
• A diplomat is a gentleman who can tell a lie in such a manner to another gentleman (who is also a diplomat) that the second gentleman is compelled to let on that he really believes the first gentleman, although he knows that the first gentleman is a liar, who knows that the second gentleman does not believe him, yet both let on that each believes the other, while both know that both are liars.
• Another good thing about telling the truth; you don't have to remember what you said.
• It's a lot more difficult to be a consistent liar than to tell the truth.

Human Relations Top of the page

• When nobody disagrees with you, you can assure yourself that you are exceptionally brilliant. Or else you're the boss.
• You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
• People make enemies by complaining to much to their friends.
• There is no place like home; where we are treated the best and grumble the most.
• Deal with the faults of others as gently as you do with your own.
• Diplomacy is the knack of letting the other fellow have your way.
• Formula for tact: Be brief, politely; be aggressive, smilingly; be emphatic, pleasantly; be positive, diplomatically; be right, graciously.
• There is some good in everyone, though in some people it takes a little longer to find.
• Tact is like a girdle. It enables you to organize the awkward truth more attractively.
• A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking so much, but a tactful man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
• Promises are like crying babies in church - they should be carried out immediately.
• Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
• A young man proved himself wise when a young widow asked him how old he thought she was. He answered, "I am just deciding whether to make you ten years younger on account of your looks, or to make you ten years older on account of your intelligence".
• A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. Albert Einstein
• A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked. not to be endured with patient resignation. Bertrand Russell

  Happiness Top of the page

• Happiness is the only thing that multiplies by division.
• A ppor man can be happy; but a happy man isn't poor.
• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consumewealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw
• Existance is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper
• Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful. Irving Kristol
• One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those whoo will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
• Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job. James 5:11
• THat is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus
• Happiness is a wa-station between too little and too much.
• One day's happiness makes a man forget his misfortune; and one day's misfortune makes him forget his past happiness. Ecclesiasticus
• Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill
• If I never get any further than this, I've had a great time getting this far.
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
• There is no cosmetic for beauty like hapiness.
• Happiness is the perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.