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Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
-- Cree Indian Prophecy
We have not inherited the Earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.
-- Ancient proverb
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Emerson
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
-- Socrates
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-- Joseph Fort Newton
One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer;
another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
-- Proverbs 11:24
You can't be poor if you have a friend.
The man who removed the mountain started by carrying away small stones.
Be kind and gentle,
To those who are old;
For kindness is better,
And dearer than gold.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
-- Old English Proverb
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Remember: a kind word is never wasted.
It is hope that makes the future.
The most wasted of all days is the day when we have not laughed.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Wisdom is in the head, not in the beard.
A thing too often seen is not held dear.
Being young is a fault which improves daily.
One never falls, but on the side toward which one leans.
Better to suffer for the truth than to be rewarded for a lie.
He who threatens is always afraid.
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
There is no such thing as a necessary man.
Common sense is not so common.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.
-- Hans Christian Anderson
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
A friend is a present you give yourself.
Kind thoughts are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Love of learning is the key to knowledge.
The best way to convince anyone he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Feelings are not like faucets you can turn on and off.
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
-- Washington Irving
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy
Good teaching isi 1/4 preparation and 3/4 theather.
-- Gail Godwin
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
-- Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Aldai Stevenson
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-- Irving Kristol
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
-- Dr. Robert Schuller
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
-- Voltaire
Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
-- James Russell Lowell
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
-- William Faulkner
One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us.
-- Virgil A. Kraft
Educations 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
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.
Never mistake motion for action.
Well done is better than well said.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Lead. Follow. Or get out of the way!
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein
You know nothing for sure... except the fact that you know nothing for sure.
-- John F. Kennedy
Success is getting what you want. Happiness isi liking what you get.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-- Joseph Addison
Justifying a fault doubles it.
-- French Proverb
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simpley good; be good for something.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Only those who attempt the absurd... will achieve the impossible.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-- Walt Disney
There are several good precautions against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
-- Mark Twain
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
-- Nancy Reagan
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
-- Willaim Arthur Ward
Only the educated are free.
-- Epictetus
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
The United States Supreme Court has handed down the eleventh commandment, 'Thou shalt not, in any classroom, read the first ten'.
Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believe in it.
-- Philip K. Dick
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
-- Mark Twain
I disapprove with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Evelyn Beatrick Hall, paraphrasing Voltaire
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
-- Lord Acton
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
You see things and say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'.
-- George Bernard Shaw
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
-- Niels Bohr
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
-- Sigmund Freud
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
-- Mark Twain
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
-- Albert Hubbard
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-- Abraham Lincoln
There are some things that are so serious that you have to laugh at them.
-- Niels Bohr
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-- Vernon Howard
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
-- Margaret Meade
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
-- Redd Foxx
It is better to place a fence at the edge of a cliff than to have an ambulance waiting at the bottom.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
-- Mark Twain
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
-- Yiddish proverb
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
-- Franklin P. Jones
If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
-- Anatole France
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different dummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
-- Henry David Thoreau
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed 10,000 years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
-- Edward O Wilson
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
-- Socrates
If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are.
-- Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
We have too many people who live without working,
And we have altogether too many who work without living.
-- Charles R. Brown
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
-- Longfellow
To live is the rarest thing in the world - most people exist - that is all.
A wise man must be wise before, not after the event.
I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, And if by chance we find each other, It's beautiful.
-- Frederick S. Peals
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be it's parent.
Don't take life too seriously; You'll never get out of it alive anyway.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Folks can tolerate being either loved or hated - but not ignored.
Hard times are those periods during which we build strong men.
If you could get rid of all your problems - boredom would become your problem.
He who waits for tomorrow has only a lot of empty yesterdays.
Character, not power, makes the person.
Thinking is when your mouth is closed and your head is talking to itself.
Two men please God - who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows him not.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
-- W. A. "Billy" Sunday
Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off the Lord.
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
Responsibilites gravitate to the man who can shoulder them.
Experience is what a man does with what happens to him.
The wise carry their knowledge as they do their watches, not for display, but for use.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but not so popular.
There are no problems, only challenges.
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
-- Carl Sandberg
Faith to live by.
Self to live with.
Purpose to live for.
Character is like the foundation to a house.. it is below the surface.
Things will have to change in order that they stay the same.
When God puts a tear in your eye, it's because he wants to put a rainbow in your heart.
You may have riches of silver and gold, but you'll never be as rich as me. For I had a mother who read to me.
Any man can be a Father. But it takes someone special to be a Daddy.
All things bright and beautiful,
All things great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
Dear Children:
There seems to be some question about who I am, where I live and what I do. Let me answer those questions here and now. I am the spirit of giving, and it is not important that those receiving know where the gift comes from. I live in each of you and your friends. When you look into the eyes of your brothers, sisters and neighbors... and see love and understanding, free of prejudice and self-interest... then you know what it is I do. You might think I only work one day each year, but let me tell you a secret. I work everyday of the year for those who really believe in me.
Love,
S. Claus (Sanders)
It takes more than a Supreme Court ruling to stop segregation.
No one can make you feel anything.
Be yourself.
Just Do It! -- Nike
Education doesn't always equal intelligence.
Everything that has beauty has a body and is a body;
Everything that has being has being in the flesh;
And dreams are only drawn from the bodies that are.
-- D. H. Lawrence, Bodiless God
Humankind's deepest misunderstanding is seperating God from his creationg. When God is seen in all things, as the Native Americans saw God, there exists harmony, balance, and a love and respect for all life. When we abuse the Earth, we spit into God's face.
-- The Source
For those we believe all life is precious, the Lair of the Snow Leopard lies as much in the heart as in the mountains.
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me, since I never retreat.
The ladder of success must be set upon something solid before you can start to climb.
There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress - to forget you are wearing it.
Let your life be counted by the milestones of achievement, and not by the timepiece of years.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
-- B. Cotton
Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
-- Henry Ford
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm!
-- Vince Lombardi
Don't miss the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for the pot of gold.
Every story has 3 sides: yours, mine, and the facts.
-- Rene Fumoleau
The aim of education should be to teach us how to think rather than what to think.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
-- Mark Twain
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.
-- Anwar al-Sadat
You have to be the best you can be with what you have.
-- Rick Hansen
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do during our leisure hours determines what we are.
-- George Eastman
To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.
-- Abraham Lincoln
By the time somebody decides to make a long story short it's already too late.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
-- Anne Bradstreet
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
-- Han Suyin
The diseases of the mind are more destructive than those of the body.
-- Cicero
Large streams from little fountains flow, large oaks from little acorns grow.
-- David Everett
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
-- Danish proverb
Success in life is to never let your ego outstrip your talent.
-- McIver
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
-- Thomas Macaulay
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
-- Charles Dickens
Laughing is one of the more serious activities of mankind.
The thrill is not just in winning, but in the courage to join the race.
The key to longevity: keep breathing.
-- Sophie Tucker
Those who want much are always in need.
-- Muhammed
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
-- William Matthews
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
-- Edward Eggleston
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
-- Chinese proverb
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
-- Pat Sullivan
Always behave like a duck... keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the dickens underneath.
The game isn't over till it's over.
-- Yogi Berra
The real achiever do one thing at a time.
-- P. Drucker
A dreamer lives forever
To imagine is everything.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
-- L. J. Cardinal
What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.
It is amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Dreams never pop, they just get recycled.
Sometimes even in our own world we are aliens.
The Earth has music for those who will listen.
-- O. W. Holmes
It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
-- Lucy M. Montgomery
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
To complete a dream, I start with a plan.
It takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.
-- Stuart Luman Seaton
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
-- Pablo Casals
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
-- Louis D. Brandeis
He who makes excuses accuses himself.
-- French proverb
Nature to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Are you going places or just being taken?
-- H. F. Heinrichs
In similar waters, similar fish are found.
-- Rysch
Without our cares our joys would be less lively.
-- Catherine P. Traill
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
Education is hanging around till you've caught on.
-- Robert Frost
Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.
-- William Shakespeare
Joy and courage make a handsome face.
-- French proverb
A=R+P; Adventure equals Riisk with a Purpose.
-- Robert McClure
Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
-- William Shakespeare
The city has a face, the country has a soul.
-- Jacques DeLacretelle
By helping somebody climb a mountain of problems, I solve some of mine too.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-- Jonathan Swift
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
-- Margaret Mead
Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you're going.
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.
-- Chief Dan George
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
-- Charles F. Kettering
Dreams are necessary to life.
-- Anais Nin
To see more is to become more.
-- Pierre Teilhard DeChardin
Don't grow a wiishbone where your backbone ought to be.
-- folksaying
Life is like loading twice your cargo weight onto your spacecraft. If it's canaries and you keep half of them flying all the time, you're all right.
-- Okona, Star Trek: The Next Generation
I never saw a Moor-
I never saw the Sea -
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.
I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven -
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given.
-- Emily Dickinson
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a dream, today is reality... make the most of it.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.
-- Margaret Laurence
Natures uses as little as possible of anything.
-- Johann Kepler
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
-- Simone Weil
The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
-- William Matthews
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary P. Poole
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
-- Robert W. Service
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
-- Leo Tolstoy
Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job.
-- J. C. Penney
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
-- Albert Einstein
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
-- C. S. Lewis
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh
Seems like everytime history repeats itself the price doubles.
To do great important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time.
One who makes no mistakes, never makes anything.
-- English proverb
Dare to dream - dare to try- dare to fail - dare to succeed.
-- G. Kinsley Ward
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James R. Lowell
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
-- Jean Kerr
One who is wrapped up in oneself makes a small package.
He who loses his head is usually the last one to miss it.
-- Charles V. Stewart
There's a difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
There is hardly anything in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only, are this man's lawful prey.
-- John Ruskin
If you are planning for a year, so rice. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate a person.
-- Ancient Chinese Proverb
If life is a performance,
And I am not an actor,
Am I suppose to lie down and die?
-- Juliana Hatfield
Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have.
He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
-- Betrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays" 1928
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
-- Henrik Ibsen
Immortality -- a fater worse than death.
-- Edgar A. Shoaff
You're never too old to become younger.
-- Mae West
For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
-- John Greenly Whitten
He who neglects an opportunity must not complain afterwards.
-- Chinese Proverb
One cannot consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller
Make other people like themselves a little better and rest assured they'll like you very much.
What lies in front of us and what lies behind us are nothing compared to what lies within us.
Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead.
Walk beside me,
And just be my friend.
-- Albert Camus
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Everyone smiles in the same language.
Not preparing is preparing to fail.
A man with one watch always knows what time it is... A man with two watches is never sure.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
-- Eduardo Galeano
80% of life is showing up.
The only thing we learn from history isi that we learn nothing from history.
-- Hegel
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde
True Joy In Possession
To have a thing is little
If you're not allowed to show it.
And to know a thing is nothing,
Unless others know you know it.
-- Lord Neaves
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike superiority and impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-- John Wooden
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
-- Herb Caen
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-- Felix Cohen
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man -- and I will show you a failure.
-- Thomas Alva Edison
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before the lesson.
-- Vernon Law
All cruelty springs from weakness.
-- Seneca
The majority of us are for free speech only when it deals with those subjects concerning which we have no intense convictions.
-- Edmund B. Chaffer
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
-- Lawrence J. Peter
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
-- Chief Justice Earl Warren
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
-- George Bernard Shaw
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
-- Nicolas Chamfort
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occassioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down.
-- Hector Berlioz
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, and Indian said simply, 'ours'.
-- Vine Deloria, Jr.
'Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give to some people.
-- Tom Masson
Segregation is the offspring of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immortality.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
-- Lillian Hellman
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.
-- Herbert V. Prochnow
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
-- Bob Edwards
Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
-- Kathleen Norris
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
-- H. T. Leslie
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Samuel Butler
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
-- David Russell
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
-- John Ruskin
Nature gave man two ends -- one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
-- James M. Barrie
Money often costs too much.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket, and rejoices that the system works.
-- Bill Vaughan
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
-- Stanley J. Randall
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh -- at yourself.
-- Ethel Barrymore
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein
A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20, he has wasted 30 years of his life.
-- Muhammad Ali
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Eden Phillpots
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.
-- Charles Dickens
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Success is a journey, not a destination.
-- Ben Sweetland
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
-- Gilbert Highet
A heart of peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
-- Proverbs 14:30
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
-- Jonas Salk
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
-- Madame Curie
Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.
-- Henry Ford
Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
-- Charles de Gaulle
As soils are depleted, human health, vitality, and intelligence go with them.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Employ they time well if thy meanest to gain leisure.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
-- John F. Kennedy
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
It is the quality of our work which will please God, and not the quantity.
-- Mahatma Ghandi
Never doubt that a small group of thoughful, committed people can change the world -- indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams
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
Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
-- Walter Anderson
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.
-- Australian Aboriginal Elder
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
-- Ben Bova
We find comfort among those who agree with us -- growth among those who don't.
-- Frank A. Clark
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
-- R. A. Dickson
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-- Walt Disney
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban
He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun.
-- Steady Eddy
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
-- Henry Ford
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Live as you will have wished to hav elived when you are dying.
-- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
-- Andre Gidi
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
-- Robert Heilein
Technological progress has merely provided us with efficient means for going backwards.
-- Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
-- Aldous Huxley
Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum to get over it.
-- Peter de Jager
Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
-- Doug Larson
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
-- John Lennon
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-- Charlie McCarthey
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
-- Charles Steinmertz
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
-- Han Suyin
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
-- James Thurber
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
-- Wittgenstein
Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
-- Dr. Who
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
-- Unknown
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
-- Muhammad Ali
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive it isn't.
-- Richard Bach
There are two types of people -- those who come into a room and say 'Well, here I am!', and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
-- Frederick L. Collins
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
-- Frank Crane
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
-- Havelock Ellis
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
-- Hagar the Horrible
Catch 22
-- Joseph Heller
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you have robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Some people make things happen, some watch whil things happen, and some wonder 'what happened?'
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
-- Charles Schulz
I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'
-- Margo Kaufman
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is too important to take seriously.
-- Corky Siegel
The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
-- William Stekel
Take your work seriously, but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
-- Booth Tarkington
If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
-- Leo Rosten
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
-- Phyllis Diller
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
-- Agatha Christie
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
-- Amy Heckerling
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
-- Fran Lebowitz
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
-- Katharine Hepburn
Today, well lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness, and tomorrow a vision of hope.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
-- Earl Wilson
Study nature as the countenance of God.
-- Kingsley
Don't hurry, don't worry, and don't forget to smell the flowers.
-- T. Rice
Since time began today has been the friend of man.
All men are created equal; ... they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Today gives us a chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
-- Henry Van Dyke
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.
-- Emerson
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like the dew on the tip of a leaf.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
Not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
-- Goethe
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
-- Helen Keller
Good old days start with good new days like today.
Living like there's no tomorrow means loving all you can today.
I am not afraid of tomorrow. I have seen yesterday and I love today!
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-- Keats
The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise.
Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.
This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
-- Emerson
We cannot buy time, it is a gift from God.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
-- Len Wein
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off.
The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
-- Dale Carnegie
Judge a man not by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
-- Thomas Robert Dewar
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
-- Cyril Conolly
Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-- Robert Frost
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
-- Leo Tolstoy
Were beauty under 20 locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
-- Shakespeare
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
-- Katharine Hepburn
The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
-- Kosh, Babylon 5
There was only one catch and that was Catch 22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
-- Joseph Heller, Catch 22
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
-- Joseph Heller, Catch 22
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
-- Doug Larson
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
-- Victor Hugo
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
-- Robert M. Pirsig
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
-- Shunryu Suzuki
Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear your friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.
-- Bruno Jasienski
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
-- Jimi Hendrix
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Paul Anderson
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
-- Slovenian proverb
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa
If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.
-- Anonymous
What does not kill me makes me stronger
-- Friederich Nietzsche
There cannot be a crisis next. My schedule is already full.
-- Henry Kissinger
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
-- Bernadette Devlin
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
-- Jerry Chin
Never deprice someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
-- Unknown
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
-- African proverb
Life is like a dogseld team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give himi power.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Better a diamond with a flaw then a pebble without.
-- Confucious
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
-- Albert Camus
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
-- Unknown
I have seen soldiers panic at the first site of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action.
-- Robin Hood Prince of Theives
Honor gives little comfort to a man alone in his home, or in his heart.
-- Martok, Deep Space 9
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.
-- Spanish Proverb
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
The ideas I stand for are not mine.
I borrowed them from Socrates.
I swiped them from Chesterfield.
I stole them from Jesus.
If you don't like their rules,
Whose would you use?
-- Dale Carnegie
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
-- Confucious
The excellence of a gift lies in its appriateness rather than its value.
-- Charles Dudley Warner
We forfeit 3/4 of ourselves to be like other people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-- G. H. Hardy
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
-- Janet Long
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage
I don't make you feel special, I just remind you that you are special.
-- David F. Sims
Through this toilsom world, alas!
Once and only once I pass;
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To a suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while I can.
No delay, for it isi plain
I shall not pass this way again.
The thing that is opened most often by mistake; is the mouth.
The Time for Kindness Is Now
Friends, in this world of hurry
And work and sudden end
If a thought comes quick of doing
A kindness to a friend
Do it thisi very instant!
Don't put it off -- don't wait;
What's the use of doing a kindness
If you do it a day too late?
He who has a million friends has not one to spare. He who has an enemy meets him everywhere.
One of the best ways to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good.
A smile is the light in the window of a face which shows that the heart is at home.
No man's opinion is entirely worthless -- Even a watch that doesn't run is right twice a day.
Don't expect your ship to come in if you haven't sent one out to sea.
The chap who says, 'what's the use?' is never the engine; he's always the caboose.
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
-- Rose Macaulay
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
-- Albert Camus
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
-- Thomas Fuller
For in that sleep of death
What dreams may come
When we have shuffled
Off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
-- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
-- Josepch Joubert
Enjoy all the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-- Unknown
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-- Colton
Truth is the safest lie.
-- Jewish proverb
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings
To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
-- Anatole France
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
-- Anonymous
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
-- Henry Ford
If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.
-- Anonymous
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
-- Marcel Marceau
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
-- Rabbi Hillel
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- The Buddha
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true..
-- Disney's Cinderella, "A Dream Is A Wish"
In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.
-- Norwegian proverb
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
-- Joseph Heller
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
-- Phyllis McGinley
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to be where he was.
-- R. L. Evans
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
-- Billie Burke
God will only give you as much as you can handle.
-- Anonymous
The true and noble way to kill a foe,
Is not to kill him, -- you with kindness,
May so change him that he shall cease to be so,
And then he's slain.
-- Alain
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
-- Joan Baez
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
-- Frank Tyger
What is to give light must endure burning.
-- Viktor Frankl
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
-- Philip Larkin
We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
-- Jonathan Swift
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
-- Marianne Moore
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
-- Elie Wiesel
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills
Never seem wiser, nor more well learned than the people you are with.
-- Lord Chesterfield
He who angers you conquers you.
-- Elizabeth Kenny
... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
-- May Sarton
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
-- Leo Rosten
If it is a mistake of the head and not of the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
-- Earl Warren
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
-- Bob Dylan
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
-- Unknown
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
-- Gina Shapira
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
-- Reverend Jesse Jackson
Be mysterious.
-- John Bouvier's advice to hiis daughter, Jacqueline
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
-- Katherine Whitehorn
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Look for the good in everything and you will find it.
-- Anonymous
Man can never be happy if he does not nourish his soul as he does his body.
-- The Rebbe
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
-- Jean Paul Richter
Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
-- Kathryn Carpenter
No good deed goes unpunished.
-- Clare Boothe Luce
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara
Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art.
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
-- Suzanne Nichols
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
-- Queen Victoria
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
-- Sir Thomas Browne
It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
-- Marlene Dietrich
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-- Rollo May
Think of what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic, policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.
-- Robert Fulghum, All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned In Kindergarten
Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
-- James Bryant Conant
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
-- Charles de Gaulle
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
-- John Lubbock
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
-- Dr. Seuss
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
-- Chuang-tzu
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
-- Bovee
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-- Bacon
No labour bestowed upon a worthless thing can be productive of fruit; even by a hundred efforts a crane cannot be made to talk like a parrot.
-- The Hitopadesa
Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
-- Somerset Maugham
Never a tear dims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
-- Bret Harte
There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
-- Montaigne
First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust - and we die too.
-- Shelley
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say: to-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
-- Martial
It is a truth universally, acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-- Jane Austen
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
-- Minna Antrim
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
-- Betty Friedan
Some like me, others don't. That's the way it is.
-- Pope John Paul II
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
-- Eric Hoffer
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
-- Goethe
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
-- Hare & Charles
The Soul is born old, but it grows young; that is the comedy of life.
The Body is born young and grows old; that is life's tragedy.
-- Oscar Wilde
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
-- Plutarch
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.
-- Pliny the Elder
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
-- William Shakespeare
Which does one love more, fame or one's own life?
Which is more valuable, one's own life or wealth?
Which is worse, gain or loss?
Therefore
He who has lavish desires will spend extravagently.
He who hoards most will lose heavily.
He who is contented suffers no disgrace.
He who knows when to stop is free from danger.
Therefore he can long endure.
-- Lao-Tzu
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Kierkegaard
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
-- Johnson
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
-- Irving Layton
In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
-- Baba Dioum
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
-- William Beebe, 1906
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
-- John Ruskin
If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
-- Tallula Bankhead
With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-- W. H. Auden
Friends will keep you sane,
Love could fill your heart,
A lover can warm your bed,
But lonely is the soul without a mate.
-- David Pratt
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
-- Joel Rosenberg
Without music life would be a mistake.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
For most of history. Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.
-- Frank Tyger
The secret of happines is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
-- James M. Barrie
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And this is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare, "Macbeth"
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
-- William Ralph Inge
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
-- Martin Luther
I would prefer as a friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
-- Euripides
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
-- Elizabeth Bowen
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
-- William Feather
To be adult is to be alone.
-- Jean Rostand
Poverty is the mother of crime.
-- Marcus Aurelius
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
-- David Lloyd George
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
-- Irish Proverb
There is no need like the lack of a friend.
-- Irish Proverb
If I could catch a Rainbow, I would do it just for you.
And share with you it's Beauty on days you're feeling Blue.
If I could build a Mountain you could call your very own
A place to find Serentiy, a place to be alone, I'd do it just for you.
If I could take your Troubles, I would toss them in the Sea.
But all these things I'm finding are Impossible for me.
I cannot build a Mountain or catch a Rainbow fair.
But let me be what I know best, A Friend that's always there.
The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'
-- Robert Quillen
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
-- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
-- Richard Bach
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
-- Charles Darwin
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them.
-- Jewish Proverb
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, 'making it', or success.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
-- Hasidic saying
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.
-- Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand
The most beautiful thing we can experiences is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
-- Gildor Inglorion from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
-- Doug Larson
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
-- H. L. Mencken
Do no rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
-- Agnes Campbell MacPhail
A relationship is what happens between two people who are waiting for something better to come along.
-- Anonymous
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
-- Marcel Proust
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
-- Booker T. Washington
Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.
-- Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)
Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
-- Laurence Sterne
Skating on thin ice is better than skating on no ice at all.
-- John M. Shanahan
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-- Herm Albright
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain
Men can acquire knowledge but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
-- Spanish proverb
'Why not' is a slogan for an interesting life.
-- Mason Cooley
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
-- Maya Angelou
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
-- Oscar Wilde
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-- George Smith Patton
Children are living messages we send to a time we will not see.
-- Neil Postman
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
-- William McFee
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.
-- Thomas Szasz
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
-- William H. Walton
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
-- Matthew 7:1
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
-- Harriet Uts Nelson
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
-- John MacNaughton
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-- Philo
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
-- George E. Woodberry