This is the second batch of Philosophy in a Teacup Matter; served between 9/16/2001 and 12/23/2001.

Justice is washing your own dishes. Love is washing someone else's.

-unknown

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

-Turkish Proverb

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

You can't cross the sea merely by standing at the water's edge.

-Rabindranath Tagore

All that is needed for the triumph of evil is that good people be silent.

-Lord Acton

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

-Danish Proverb

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

`Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers

-William Shakespeare