Greatest Quotes Ever

2011-01-24T05:38:00.000-08:00

Inspiration: "The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words."

I've collected thousands of inspirational quotes. It seems that nearly everything that can be said, has been said, simply and eloquently, in a way that can seldom be improved. Winston Churchill wrote, "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." So, I collected "The world's best quotes in one to ten words." These are the quotes:

1. Love. —The Prophets

Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world's religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.

We hear, "Love makes the world go round," and "Love heals all wounds." These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.

2. Know thyself. —Socrates

In college I studied philosophy under Professor Don Crosby, and met Socrates early. In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail.

Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it's easy to avoid.

3. Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi

Under Vincent Thomas Lombardi's direction, the Green Bay Packers collected six division titles, five NFL championships, two Super Bowls, and record of 98-30-4. Lombardi knew a lot about winning. If football is a game of inches, so is career success. In the competitive world, you seldom win by a landslide.

Buzz Sullivan, my high school diving coach, told me, "A champion is someone who goes so far they can't go another inch—and then they go that inch." I wondered why that was important. Now I know. Winning in business or in personal life is all about inches: going small distances successfully, then going farther still.

4. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost

We are swamped in change. And we had better get used to it, or at least figure out how to deal with it. In our parents' day, career change was uncommon. The norm was lifetime employment. Now CAREER = CHANGE. You'll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you'll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you're in your ideal dream job today, that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay.

Martin Bucco taught English literature at Colorado State University, and first brought my attention to what words could mean. Bucco spoke of what he called "the great dead minds," those who have come before us and written their thoughts. He also said, "Time in life is short. You can only read so many books, so choose wisely." We spent many classes unwrapping Robert Frost's genius, and this is one of the poems that hit home:

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY — by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

5. Work is love made visible. —Kahlil Gibran

About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."

In What Color Is Your Parachute? my mentor, Dick Bolles, quotes Fred Buechner, who writes, "There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work . . . (and) the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." [2001 Edition, page 57.]

High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.

6. No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus (A.D.200)

We live in a McDonald's culture. We want everything instantly and without effort. And we bristle when others around us appear to be getting more, sooner. Waiting for rewards or results is out of favor. It is so uncool.

Many things are created suddenly: the two-day house makeovers on HOME & GARDEN TELEVISION, for example, but they aren't great. They are adequate, functional, or practical improvements. Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice.

Stellar careers aren't built overnight. Take the orthopedic surgeon, whose education extends 15 years past high school. Take the country western star on Grand Ole' Opry. Take the NFL quarterback or wide receiver, the CEOs, CFOs, and Vice Presidents of brand-name companies. Think about Edison, Einstein, or Galileo, or anyone else you might admire. None of them got there overnight.

Great careers are built upon hundreds of thousands of small efforts, undertaken daily, that eventually grow into a series of satisfying wins. An ad for Paul Masson Vineyards picturing a bottle of wine said, "Nothing good happens fast." I framed it, and hung it in my office.

7. Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin

This is a variation on "Actions speak louder than words" and on Shakespeare's superb quote, "Talkers are no good doers." An executive search consultant who recruited 500 bank presidents told me, "There are two kinds of candidates: tap dancers and superstars. Tap dancers go through the motions and superstars get the work done. I recruit the superstars."

8. No wind favors he who has no destined port. —Montaigne

The cliche, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there," is valid. And many careers are broken by lack of direction. Corporations define this concept as having a mission or vision, and organizations lacking vision usually flounder. "Career Planning" speaks to the idea of creating a blueprint for your future. That is, having a goal, a destined port—fulfilling your destiny. Stephen R. Covey said it well in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when he advised us to "Begin with the end in mind."

9. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. —Seneca

I've been there. You've been there. Sometimes life is hard. You hit a career roadblock or dead end. Nothing seems to be working. You're fired or laid off. Or worse yet, you and your spouse are both unemployed. It happens. And it happens more frequently than you might imagine, to good people, qualified candidates, because of circumstances beyond their control. I like Churchill's words, "Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." And I especially like the quote by Edmund Burke, who said: "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

10. Do first things first, and second things not at all. —Peter Drucker.

It's so easy to do what's familiar, comfortable, or fun. It's so difficult, sometimes, to tackle the highest priority. And sometimes it's difficult to even know your top priorities; hence, the phrase, "I can't see the forest for the trees."

We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.

When you're flooded with career possibilities, or "swimming up Niagara Falls," it's good to spend time answering questions like, "What is the best and highest use of my talents?" and, "How can I make a bigger impact?"

If you can't establish clear career priorities by yourself, use friends and business acquaintances as a sounding board. They will want to help. Ask them to help you determine your "first things" and "second things." Or seek an outside coach or advisor to help you focus. Because if you don't know what your "first things" are, you simply can't do them FIRST.

Love Quotes

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"Hold my hand and I'll take you there, somehow, someday, somewhere."
~ From West Side Story

"Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others."
~ David Hawkins (Internationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher)

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."
~ Karen Sunde

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
~ A. A. Milne (Creator of Winnie the Pooh)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
~ William Shakespeare

"Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you."
~ Vipin Sharma

Sorry Quotes

2009-10-23T02:51:00.000-07:00

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Ovid

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.
Ryan White

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
Deborah Kerr

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.
Judith Moore

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.
Monica Lewinsky

As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.
Rosie Perez

As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
Bobby Vinton

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
Charles Osgood

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Douglas Horton

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.
Philip Gibbs

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.
Thomas Keneally

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.
Rory Bremner

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Karl Kraus

Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.
Eric San

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Agnes Repplier

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
Arthur Ashe

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Mitch Hedberg

Humor Quotes

2009-10-23T01:54:00.000-07:00

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William A. Ward

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley

Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
~Albert Einstein

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
~Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
~Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
~Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
~Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
~Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
~Albert Einstein

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
~Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
~Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
~Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
~Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
~Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
~Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
~Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
~Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
~Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
~Albert Einstein

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
~Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
~Abraham Lincoln

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
~Abraham Lincoln

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
~Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~Abraham Lincoln

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
~Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
~Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
~Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
~Abraham Lincoln

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
~Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
~Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
~Abraham Lincoln

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
~Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
~Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
~Abraham Lincoln

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
~Oscar Wilde | Acting and the Theatre Quotes

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
~Oscar Wilde | Advice Quotes

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
~Oscar Wilde | America and Americans Quotes

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
~Oscar Wilde | Art and the Artist Quotes

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
~Oscar Wilde | Censorship Quotes

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
~Oscar Wilde | Character and Personality Quotes

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
~Oscar Wilde | The City and the Country Quotes

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~Oscar Wilde | Consistency Quotes

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
~Oscar Wilde | Crime and Punishment Quotes

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
~Oscar Wilde | Critics and Criticism Quotes

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
~Oscar Wilde | Cynicism Quotes

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
~Oscar Wilde | Enemies Quotes

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~Oscar Wilde | Enemies Quotes

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde | Experience Quotes

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
~Oscar Wilde | Fear Quotes

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
~Oscar Wilde | Genius Quotes

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
~Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
~Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes

I am not young enough to know everything.
~Oscar Wilde | Knowledge Quotes

For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
~Oscar Wilde | Life Quotes

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
~Oscar Wilde | Memory Quotes

Men become old, but they never become good.
~Oscar Wilde | Men Quotes

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
~Oscar Wilde | Men and Women Quotes

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
~Oscar Wilde | Men and Women Quotes

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
~Oscar Wilde | Observation Quotes

Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
~Oscar Wilde | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes

Adversity Quotes

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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
~Robert Fulghum

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~M. Kathleen Casey

If you're going through hell, keep going.
~Winston Churchill

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
~Author Unknown

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.
~Author Unknown

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
~Harry Golden

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.
~Uncle Remus

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
~Rona Barrett

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~Garth Brooks

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
~Garrison Keillor

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Acceptance Quotes

2009-07-15T04:42:00.000-07:00

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
~Arthur Gordon

Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."
~Catharine Marshall

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
~Simone de Beauvoir

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
~Maureen Dowd

"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.
~Debbi Fields

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
~Kathleen Casey Theisen

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
~Old German proverb

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
~Norman Cousins

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
~Kathleen Norris

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
~H. Bertram Lewis

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
~Susan Sontag

Who except the gods can live without any pain?
~Aeschylus

Misfortune comes to all men.
~Chinese proverb

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
~Clarence Day

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills self.
~W. C. Doane

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
~Joshua L. Liebman

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
~Bible

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
~Thomas a Kempis

Addiction Quotes

2009-07-11T13:29:00.000-07:00

Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
~Tallulah Bankhead

I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.
~Unknown

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
~Carl Gustav Jung

To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.
~Jim Slinsky

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
~Ray Charles

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Anticipation Quotes

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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
~Elbert Hubbard

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.
~Charles Schwab

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~Alfred Hitchcock

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
~Samuel Johnson

Arrogance Quotes

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Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
~Baron Wessenberg

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.
~Hal Borland

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
~George Eliot

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
~Marya Mannes

Aggression Quotes

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Dick Cheney blows birds out of the sky for pleasure but he drops bombs on Iraqi children for power.
~Krodha Vakishwari

Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
~Spencer

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
~Jawaharlal Nehru

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
~Alfred Adler

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another
~Sigmund Freud

Abortion Quotes

2009-07-11T13:17:00.000-07:00

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
~Steinem

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.
~Mathewes-Green

The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
~Harry A. Blackmun

No woman has an abortion for fun.
~Smith

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
~Teresa

Awareness Quotes

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
~ Abraham Maslow

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
~ Walter Benjamin

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
~ Paul Tillich

Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
~Charles A. Lindbergh

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
~Allen Ginsberg

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
~Virginia Woolf

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
~Paul Cezanne

Apathy Quotes

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Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.
~Philip Breedveld

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
~William Safire

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
~Ralph Chaplin

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
~Frederic Chopin

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
~Albert Einstein

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
~Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
~Juan Montalvo

Accident Quotes

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Chapter of accidents.
~Edmund Burke

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
~Charles Dickens

To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
~Goldsmith

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
~Charles Kingsley

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]
~Ephraim Gotthold Lessing

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By many a happy accident.
~Thomas Middleton

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.
~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.
~William Shakespeare

Of moving accidents by flood and field.
~William Shakespeare

A happy accident.
~Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)

The accident of an accident.
~Lord Edward Thurlow

Absence Quotes

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
~Haynes Bayly

For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .
~Bible

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
~Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
~ Goldsmith

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
~ ("Smyrns of Chios")

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~ Jonson

Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
~ Francis Kazincy

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~ Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (Mrs. Butler)

But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]
~ Thomas a Kempis

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
~ Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.
~ Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.
~ George Linley

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.
~ George Linley

For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - William Julius Mickle,
~ William Julius Mickle

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
~ Thomas Moore

Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.
~ Alexander Pope

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
~ Sextus Propertius

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
~ Lord John Russell

Failure Quotes

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Saying Quotes

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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Ronald Reagan

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Joel Osteen

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
Joel Osteen

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Groucho Marx

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
Mitch Hedberg

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.
Mitch Hedberg

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma Bombeck

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller

Farewell Quotes

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A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
Donald E. Westlake

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
Robert Reed

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.
Etty Hillesum

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
Donald Cargill

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.
Donald Cargill

Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.
Miriam Makeba

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Lance Armstrong

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
Robert Byrne

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
Richard Parks Bland

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
Nellie Bly

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.
Richard Simmons

Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
Geezer Butler

The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.
Galeazzo Ciano

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
James Weldon Johnson

The return makes one love the farewell.
Alfred de Musset

Motto Quotes

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A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
Frank Crane

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
Courteney Cox

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
Ernestine L. Rose

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
John McHugh

And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.
Michael N. Castle

Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
Zakk Wylde

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
John Chafee

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Andrew Carnegie

Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.
Angie Harmon

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.
Steve Brown

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.
Alan Kulwicki

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
Dawn French

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
Stephen Colbert

My motto - sans limites.
Isadora Duncan

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron

Optimism Quotes

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Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
Jim Ramstad

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
Vernor Vinge

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
Linda Lingle

But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
John Hench

Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
Howard Mumford Jones

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.
John Hench

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Roberto Rossellini

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
Herbert Croly

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Patricia Ireland

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Paul Fussell

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
Joan Blades

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Francis P. Yockey

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
Earle Brown

My optimism for life carried through my work.
John Dyer

Work Quotes

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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
J. Paul Getty

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Richard Nelson Bolles

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace

War Quotes

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Herbert V. Prochnow

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth

Time Quotes

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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

The present is a point just passed.
David Russell

The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Technology Quotes

2009-07-09T02:23:00.000-07:00

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
William Gibson

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher von Braun

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
William Gibson

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitchell Kapor

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy

Sports Quotes

2009-07-09T02:21:00.000-07:00

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William A. Ward

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

Society Quotes

2009-07-09T02:20:00.000-07:00

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is not a fragrant world.
Raymond Chandler

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm

Science Quotes

2009-07-09T02:17:00.000-07:00

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Tom Hanks

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer

Religion Quotes

2009-07-09T02:15:00.000-07:00

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mohandas Gandhi

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert Green Ingersoll

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."
Margaret Smith

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce

Politics Quotes

2009-07-09T02:13:00.000-07:00

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
George C. Wallace

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. Eliot

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill

Poetry Quotes

2009-07-09T02:10:00.000-07:00

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Rene Char

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot

Patriotism Quotes

2009-07-09T02:08:00.000-07:00

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Bob Riley

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

Music Quotes

2009-07-09T02:06:00.000-07:00

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Movies Quotes

2009-07-09T02:04:00.000-07:00

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Pauline Kael

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack

Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
Sandra Bullock

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut

Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison

Marriage Quotes

2009-07-09T02:01:00.000-07:00

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore de Balzac

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
Grace Hansen

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. Mencken

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
Alan King

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce

Imagination Quotes

2009-07-09T01:58:00.000-07:00

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Duane Michals

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Theodor Geisel

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey

History Quotes

2009-07-09T01:52:00.000-07:00

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Colin Powell

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
James Polk

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
William Manchester

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Dante Alighieri

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Edward Kennedy

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow

Government Quotes

2009-07-09T01:48:00.000-07:00

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
Barry Goldwater

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Fred Woodworth

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Fred Woodworth

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison

Friendship Quotes

2009-07-09T01:46:00.000-07:00

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Duer Miller

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.
Brian Celio

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller

Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!
Brian Celio

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

He has your finger, but I have your heart.
Brian Celio

Faith Quotes

2009-07-09T01:41:00.000-07:00

A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth

Faith is not contrary to reason.
Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.
Sherwood Eddy

Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
Edwin Louis Cole

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes

Computers Quotes

2009-07-09T01:39:00.000-07:00

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Larry Ellison

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Louis Gerstner

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
Dave Barry

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Adam Osborne

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
Ray Kurzweil

The computer is a moron.
Peter Drucker

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas Engelbart

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
Ted Nelson

Change Quotes

2009-07-09T01:36:00.000-07:00

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
John A. Simone, Sr.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Irene Peter

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

Dreams Quotes

2009-07-09T01:33:00.000-07:00

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Thomas E. Lawrence

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

Death Quotes

2009-07-09T01:31:00.000-07:00

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Stewart Alsop

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Edward W. Howe

Art Quotes

2009-07-08T06:20:00.000-07:00

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Henri Matisse

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Albert Camus

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan

All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller

Experience Quotes

2009-07-08T06:08:00.000-07:00

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger

Every moment is an experience.
Jake Roberts

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Experience is a great teacher.
John Legend

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day

Equality Quotes

2009-07-08T06:02:00.000-07:00

All men are created equal, It is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
David Allan Coe

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Mason Cooley

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Kahlil Gibran

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Frances Wright

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mohandas Gandhi

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
Agnes Macphail

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
John James Ingalls

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan

Education Quotes

2009-07-08T05:56:00.000-07:00

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

Thinking of You Quotes

2009-07-04T06:18:00.000-07:00

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. ~John Burroughs

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~Irish Blessing

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne

Someone remembers, someone cares;
Your name is whispered in someone’s prayers.
~Author Unknown

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown

My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction. ~Author Unknown

I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart. ~Albany Bach Reid

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing

When we're together or when we're apart, you're first in my thoughts and first in my heart. ~Author Unknown

When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I'm sad. When you're lonely, call me! ~Author Unknown

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ~Svetlana Alliluyeva

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~A.A. Milne

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ~A.A. Milne

Labor Day Quotes

2009-07-04T06:16:00.000-07:00

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~Henry van Dyke

God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~Leonardo da Vinci

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. ~Elbert Hubbard

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. ~Marc Chagall

Without labor nothing prospers. ~Sophocles

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ~Adam Smith

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~Thomas Jefferson

God give me work, till my life shall end
And life, till my work is done.
~Epitaph of Winifred Holtby

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. ~H.M. Tomlinson

The end of labor is to gain leisure. ~Aristotle

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. ~Doug Larson

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds

Get Well Soon Quotes

2009-07-04T06:12:00.000-07:00

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription. ~Finley Peter Dunne

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~Ellie Katz

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~Author Unknown

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. ~Pearl Williams

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977

After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. ~W.C. Fields

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~Bill Walton

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. ~Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Flower, Fruit, and Thorn

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~Robert Ingersoll

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey

Boss Day Quotes

2009-07-04T06:04:00.000-07:00

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. ~Robert Frost

I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. ~Bill Gold

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. ~Dennis A. Peer

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ~Doug Larson

Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter. ~Author Unknown

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? ~Author Unknown

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life. ~Author Unknown

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it. ~Franklin P. Jones

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ~Howard Aiken

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. ~Robert Frost

Thank You Quotes

2009-07-04T06:02:00.000-07:00

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas

Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ~William Shakespeare

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom. ~Author Unknown

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ~Oscar Wilde

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain

How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather

New Job Congrats Quotes

2009-07-03T08:53:00.000-07:00

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish. ~Fred Barling, "Humorscope"

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ~Doug Larson

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ~H. Jackson Browne

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ~Howard Aiken

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? ~Author Unknown

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. ~Robert Frost

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ~John G. Pollard

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. ~Arnold Toynbee

I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. ~Bill Gold

Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting. ~Scott Adams

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. ~William C. Feather

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. ~Author Unknown

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ~Douglas Adams

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. ~Robert Frost

Weekend Quotes

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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~Bill Watterson

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley

There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~Chuck Palahniuk

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Why wait for the weekend to have fun ~Loesje

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author Unknown

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ~Ogden Nash

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess

Of all the days that's in the week
I dearly love but one day
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
~Henry Carey

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Scha

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard

Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs

How pleasant is Saturday night,
When I've tried all the week to be good,
And not spoke a word that was bad,
And obliged everyone that I could.
~Nancy Sproat

I hate weekends because there is no stock market. ~Rene Rivkin

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. ~Jean Rhys

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. ~Richard Rorty

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed Howe

Vice Quotes

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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." ~W. MacNeile Dixon

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. ~Holbrook Jackson

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ~Thornton Wilder

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. ~Abraham Lincoln

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. ~J. Petit-Senn

Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. ~Woody Allen

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it. ~Salvador de Madariaga

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1836

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ~Walter Bagehot

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. ~Lady Marguerite Blessington

Telephone Quotes

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The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone. ~Bill DeWitt, 1972

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~Fran Lebowitz

Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ~Author Unknown

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone. ~Henry Miller

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ~Ambrose Bierce

A woman is a person who reaches for a chair when she answers the telephone. ~Milton Wright

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine

Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness. ~D.H. Mondfleur

Some one invented the telephone,
And interrupted a nation's slumbers,
Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
~Ogden Nash, Look What You Did, Christopher

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. ~Brent Musburger

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number. ~Edith Armstrong

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you." ~Robert Brault,

It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. ~Mark Twain, Christmas greeting, 1890

If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me. ~Song title by Jimmy Buffet

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. ~Fred Couples

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ~Evelyn Hendrickson

Thrift Quotes

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Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character. ~S.W. Straus

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. ~Seneca

Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today. ~Francis H. Sisson

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. ~Lord Rosebery

The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice. ~M.W. Harrison

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ~Calvin Coolidge

A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need. ~Sidney Carroll, A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Be thrifty, but not covetous. ~George Herbert

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. ~Agesilaus

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. ~John D. Rockefeller

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? ~Cicero

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. ~Samuel Johnson

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power. ~Orison Swett Marden

He who does not economize will have to agonize. ~Confucius

Frugality is misery in disguise. ~Publilius Syrus

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. ~Owen Young

Running Qotes

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I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. ~Jesse Owens

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed. ~Charles Schulz, Peanuts

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. ~Erma Bombeck

Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. ~Steve Prefontaine

You don’t run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you’re good enough. ~Bill Persons

To a runner, a side stich is like a car alarm. It signifies something is wrong, but you ignore it until it goes away. ~Author Unknown

I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick. ~Abe Lemmons

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him. ~Mike Royko

Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other. ~Sam Mussabini

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. ~Martin Mull

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. ~Esa Tikkannen, 1979

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length - beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding. ~Sebastian Coe

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. ~George Sheehan

If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. ~P.Z. Pearce

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring. ~Jimmy Carter

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. ~George Sheehan

There is an itch in runners. ~Arnold Hano

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. ~Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite

I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. ~Rita Rudner

Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. ~Author Unknown

Party Quotes

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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. ~P.J. O'Rourke

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. ~Fred Allen

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both. ~David Brown, quoted in Reader's Digest "Quotable Quotes," April 2004

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other. ~Ann Landers

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. ~Desiderius Erasmus

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. ~Carol Matthau

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
~George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ~Nancie J. Carmody

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. ~George Gordon Byron

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
~Dorothy Parker

No man does right by a woman at a party. ~Harry Golden

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. ~Evelyn Waugh

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk. ~Katherine Whitehorn

You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war. ~Hawkeye, "Pilot Episode," 1972

Past Quotes

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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~André Maurois

The past is not a package one can lay away. ~Emily Dickinson

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. ~Paul Eldridge

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ~Wendell Berry

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ~Golda Meir

I was so in the present moment the past was no longer part of me. ~Laurel Hoodwrit

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. ~Pliny the Elder

We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ~John Cage

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. ~Author Unknown

Patience Quotes

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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ~Paul Sweeney

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ~Mac McCleary

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. ~Author Unknown

Beware the fury of a patient man. ~John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. ~Lord Chesterfield

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ~Ambrose Bierce

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ~George-Louis de Buffon

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams

Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine

Patience is also a form of action. ~Auguste Rodin

How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~William Shakespeare, Othello, 1604

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ~Michel de Montaigne

People Quotes

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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ~Susan Sontag

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ~Winston Churchill

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ~Arthur Miller

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. ~Walter Savage Landor

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ~Winston Churchill

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. ~W. Somerset Maugham

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. ~Albert Perry

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. ~Helen Rowland

In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between. ~Lemony Snicket

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. ~Dorothy Parker

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~Abba Eban

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? ~Walt Whitman

Pleasure Quotes

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Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~William Henley

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ~Thomas Carlyle

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. ~Rebecca West

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. ~Max Eastman

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ~Cicero

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~Soren Kierkegaard

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ~Honore de Balzac

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. ~Sydney J. Harris

When will pleasure crash with regret? ~Jareb Teague

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated

Pleasure is the bait of sin. ~Plato

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ~Jane Austen

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. ~Publilius Syrus

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ~Germaine Greer

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ~William Burroughs

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~Ovid, Metamorphoses

Purpose Quotes

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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ~Walter Savage Landor

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will. ~Stephen MacKenna

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~Washington Irving

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. ~George Bernard Shaw

An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ~José Ortega y Gasset

A useless life is an early death. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead. ~C. Astrid Weber

When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. ~Robert Brault

We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder. ~Paul Vitale

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~Seneca

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ~Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974

If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb

Nostalgia Quotes

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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~Griff Niblack

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back. ~Bill Vaughn

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. ~Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic

[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. ~Ted Koppel

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. ~Doug Larson

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers

Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ~George Wildman Ball

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ~Franklin Pierce Adams

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~Florence King

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. ~Lou Reed

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ~Alice Childress

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.... ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Morality Quotes

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. ~Llewelyn Powys

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. ~Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~Bertrand Russell

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~Havelock Ellis

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. ~Goethe

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. ~Robert Brault

It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~Graham Greene

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? ~Martin H. Fischer

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941

Laziness Quotes

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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~Jules Renard

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. ~Bern Williams

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ~Mark Kennedy

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~David Dunham

People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy. ~Bob Hope

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. ~Jimmy Lyons

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? ~Ronald Reagan

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ~Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem

Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. ~Herbert Prochnov

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~Charlie McCarthy

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. ~Adam Clayton Powell, Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967

The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. ~Henry Clay

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. ~Horace

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ~Paul Sweeney

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed. ~Søren Kierkegaard

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. ~Saint Jerome

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. ~Oscar Wilde

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ~Milton Friedman

Leisure Quotes

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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. ~Aristotle

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ~Agnes Repplier

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. ~Arthur Lacey

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ~Henry David Thoreau

Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure [has become] entertainment. ~Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, 1987

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. ~Gene Perret

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. ~Comte de Mirabeau

Leisure can be both a problem and a solution. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated

Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. ~Edgar A. Shoaff

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Literature Quotes

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ~Ezra Pound

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ~Mark Twain

Literature is the question minus the answer. ~Roland Barthes

Literature is news that stays news. ~Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842

Every man's memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. ~Richard Livingstone

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! ~James Russell Lowell

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. ~Anatole France

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ~Clifton Fadiman

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. ~Samual McChord Crothers

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine

Luck Quotes

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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~Wilson Mizner

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ~William Shakespeare

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~R.E. Shay

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. ~Don Sutton

Everything in life is luck. ~Donald Trump

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. ~Mark Twain

Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Go and wake up your luck. ~Persian Saying

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ~Langston Coleman

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. ~Frank A. Clark

Luck never made a man wise. ~Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~Author Unknown

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it. ~Author Unknown

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ~Jean Cocteau

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden

Knowledge Quotes

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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi, "Teaching and Expanding Knowledge," Science, 4 December 1964

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~Confucius

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion. ~Author Unknown

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~Michael Garrett Marino

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. ~Crates

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~Abbott Lawrence Lowell

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes. ~Panchatantra

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. ~H.L. Mencken

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. ~Susanne K. Langer

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~Thomas Henry Huxley

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ~Carl G. Jung

Ideal Quotes

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. ~Carl Schurz

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ~George Bernard Shaw

Some people never have anything except ideals. ~E.W. Howe

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. ~John Oliver Hobbes

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ~G.K. Chesterton

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ~Norman Douglas, South Wind

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ~John Galsworthy

Reality shouts; ideals whisper. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated

Materialism is a circumference without a centre. Idealism is a centre without a circumference. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf

Don't let the alarm clock of life wake you from the dream of your ideals. ~Irisa Hail

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. ~G.K. Chesterton

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ~Henry L. Mencken

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. ~Israel Zangwill

Idleness Quotes

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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. ~John Lubbock

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~E.V. Lucas

The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb

Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. ~John Ruskin

The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. ~Walter Gaston Shotwell

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished. ~Author Unknown

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ~St. Jerome

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ~Samuel Johnson

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ~Samuel Johnson

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. ~Henry Ford

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor ~Victor Hugo

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. ~Voltaire

Intution Quotes

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ~Michael Burke

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, 1977

Instinct is untaught ability. ~Bain

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ~John Sterling

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ~Joyce Brothers

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ~Florence Scovel Shinn

Reasoning at every step he treads,
Man yet mistakes his way,
Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads,
Are rarely known to stray.
~William Cowper

The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions. ~André Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1926

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ~Jawaharlal Nehru

An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's. ~Holden Rinehart

I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Instinct is the nose of the mind. ~Madame De Girardin

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin

Home Quotes

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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. ~Maya Angelou

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. ~Christian Morgenstern

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Peace - that was the other name for home. ~Kathleen Norris

Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. ~Charles Dickens

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
~Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
~Henry Van Dyke

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. ~John Ed Pearce

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. ~May Sarton

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home. ~Author Unknown

Where thou art - that - is Home. ~Emily Dickinson

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~Author Unknown

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms. ~William J. Bennett

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up. ~Lemony Snicket

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
~Robert Montgomery

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. ~George Washington

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule. ~Frederick W. Robertson

Haste Quotes

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If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. ~Saint Vincent de Paul

God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb

He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. ~Elizabeth Bibesco

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them. ~C.E.M. Joad

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. ~John Wesley

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~Soren Kierkegaard

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. ~Robert James Waller

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ~Matthew Arnold

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday. ~A.A. Milne

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ~St Francis de Sales

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb

Waiting is one of life's hardships. ~Lemony Snicket

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while. ~Max Eastman

Human Rights Quotes

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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ~Justice William J. Brennan, 1982

You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law. ~Lyn Beth Neylon

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ~Abraham Lincoln

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ~Barry Goldwater

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us. ~Edwin Markham

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ~Bishop Desmond Tutu, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. ~Robert Ingersoll

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ~Gandhi

And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul?
Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
~John Boyle O'Reilly

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ~Carl T. Rowan

No man is above the law and no man below it. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same. ~Walt Whitman

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ~Robert Frost

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below. ~Roger Baldwin

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed. ~Howard Mumford Jones

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one. ~Will Rogers

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. ~Horace Greeley

Game Quotes

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You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps. ~Author Unknown

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious. ~A.A. Milne, Not That It Matters, 1919

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. ~Don Carter

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right. ~Clive James

Life's too short for chess. ~Henry James Byron, Our Boys, 1874

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ~Henry Louis Mencken

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ~Charles Lamb

With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
~William Cowper

The bowling alley is the poor man's country club. ~Sanford Hansell

'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays;
Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
~Edward Fitzgerald

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. ~Stephen Sondheim

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ~Ambrose Bierce

Our whole life is solving puzzles. ~Erno Rubik

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ~Joseph de Maistre

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. ~Lemony Snicket

I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling. ~Kimberly Jones

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. ~George Bernard Shaw

Grammar Quotes

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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~A.A. Milne

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. ~Bronson Alcott

Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ~Richard C. Trench

It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word. ~Andrew Jackson

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~Mark Twain

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. ~Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. ~Rémy de Gourmont

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. ~Mark Twain

When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split. ~Raymond Chandler

Grammar stops at love, and at art. ~Valentine Sterling

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire

Guests Quotes

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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. ~Kahlil Gibran

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine. ~Alfred North Whitehead

Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. ~Maarten Maartens

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb

The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it. ~Author Unknown

Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year. ~Victor Borge

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~Samuel Pepys

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. ~Robert Brault

Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post. ~Charles Beresford, telegram reply to a dinner invitation

Fish and visitors smell in three days. ~Benjamin Franklin

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. ~Ward McAllister

Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Author Unknown

Face Quotes

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A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ~Sir Thomas Browne

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ~Cicero

My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie. ~Toni Morrison

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. ~Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~Lauren Bacall

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. ~Cynthia Ozick, The Paris Review

Fate Quotes

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~Jawaharlal Nehru

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~Kin Hubbard

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forester

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~William McFee

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~Diana Trilling

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. ~Author Unknown

Fate laughs at probabilities. ~E.G. Bulwer-Lytton

They... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
~Matthew Arnold, "Resignation," 1849

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him. ~Henry Ward Beecher

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~Jean de La Fontaine

Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. ~Jessi Lane Adams

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. ~Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949

There is no fate but your own fate. ~Leslie Grimutter

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. ~Lemony Snicket

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. ~Albert Einstein

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ~Lucan

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~Plutarch

Flirting Quotes

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To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. ~E.W. Howe

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Flirtation: attention without intention. ~Max O'Rell, John Bull and His Island

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? ~Helen Rowland

Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ~John Gay, The Beggar's Opera

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters. ~Ik Marvel

Future Quotes

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The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~Ruth Benedict

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein

The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Destin Figuier

And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ~Eric Hoffer

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ~John Sladek

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ~Paul Valery

You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer. ~Kehlog Albran

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. ~Author Unknown

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop

Community Quotes

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. ~George Bernard Shaw

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~Hubert H. Humphrey

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. ~Lady Bird Johnson

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself. ~Haniel Long

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. ~G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community. ~Martin H. Fischer

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ~Adlai E. Stevenson

In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems. ~Martin H. Fischer

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ~Richard Whately

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Complaining Quotes

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When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. ~Samuel Johnson

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. ~Bernard M. Baruch

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. ~Robert Hugh Benson

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? ~W.S. Gilbert

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner

Untold suffering seldom is. ~Franklin P. Jones

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. ~William Osler

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. ~Author Unknown

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. ~Joe Walsh

It is no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.
~James Whitcomb Riley

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. ~Martin H. Fischer

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~Antoine Rivarol

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ~Lord Jeffrey

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please. ~Will Rogers

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ~Author Unknown

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ~Ronald Firbank

Country Quotes

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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945

God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! ~Henri Rousseau

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. ~Sydney Smith

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. ~Leonardo da Vinci

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman

Anybody can be good in the country. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~Samuel Johnson

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.
~William Cowper

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. ~William Hazlitt, Table Talk

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ~John Adams

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. ~Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan

Curiosity Quotes

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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. ~Bernard Baruch

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin)

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ~Franklin P. Adams

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. ~Sudie Back

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. ~S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens, The Crock of Gold

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ~Arnold Edinborough

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées

I keep six honest serving-men,
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
~Rudyard Kipling

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. ~David Sedaris

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton

Baby Quotes

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It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money. ~Elinor Goulding Smith

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown

Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful. ~Charles Osgood

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke

Babies are such a nice way to start people. ~Don Herrold

Every baby needs a lap. ~Henry Robin

Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time. ~P.J. O'Rourke

When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race. ~Barbara Christine Seifert

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it. ~Georges Courteline, La Philosophie de Georges Courteline

...a little child, born yesterday,
A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed...
~"Hymn to Mercury" (one of the Homeric Hymns), translated from Greek by Percy Bysshe Shelley

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. ~Martin H. Fischer

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg

If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry

Boldness Quotes

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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. ~Baltasar Gracian

But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
~Mary Wortley Montagu, The Answer

Venus favors the bold. ~Ovid

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~Francis Bacon

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom lies in being bold. ~Robert Frost

Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1894

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~John Dryden

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~Theodore Roosevelt

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracian

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ~Jonathan Swift