Pearls of Wisdom

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. -Samuel Johnson Some of those great rules of life selected from Pearls of Wisdom: If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -Abraham Maslow You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -Booker T. Washington Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. -James B. Conant Even the highest towers begin from the ground.-Chinese saying Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca Men take more pains to mask than mend.-Benjamin Franklin Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz.Agel, Jerome is the author of 'Pearls of Wisdom', published 1987 under ISBN 9780060962005 and ISBN 0060962003.