Ryan Sypek's Quotes

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Never promise more than you can perform.

What is left when honor is lost?

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.