When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Khalil Gibran

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald