Franklin P. Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Greg Aldrik
Ask yourself, "If all jobs paid $2 an hour, what job would I want to do?"
When you answer that question, start doing it, even if you have to do it for free at first.
Thomas à Kempis[as often quoted by Scot McKay]
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Jean Anouilh
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Arthur Ashe
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
James Baldwin
Children don't often listen to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
Dave Barry
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
Max Beerbohm
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
H. Jackson Brown, jnr
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Dale Carnegie
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Ray Charles
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, on his heroin
addiction
G. K. Chesterton
"My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot
would think of saying, except in a desperate case.
It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober."
Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it has a God who
knew his way out of the grave.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
I may not practise what I preach, but God forbid that I preach what I practise.
Sir Winston Churchill
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Cicero
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Bill Clinton
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Timothy Dexter
An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.
Charles Dickens
Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on
your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is a being born to believe, and if no church comes forward with the title
deeds of truth, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own
imagination.
Diogenes
On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded:
‘By worrying as little as possible about fame’
Will Durant
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do
and always a clever thing to say.
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy
evidence of that fact.
What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted
whenever I am contradicted.
Erasmus
When I get a little money I buy books
and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
Caleb Followill
Every little boy wants to be their dad, and then later on they want to be the opposite of their dad.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Gene Fowler
Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blanksheet of paper until
the drops of blood form on your forehead.
Anne Frank
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Gandhi
Whatever you do is unimportant. But it is very important that you do it.
David Gerrold
If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing for money.
Goethe
There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas
and splendid plans:
the moment one definitely commits oneself, then
Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that never
otherwise would have occurred . . .
Whatever you can do,
Or dream you can do,
Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
If youth is a fault, it is one which is soon corrected.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Sydney J. Harris
The rich who are unhappy are worse off than the poor who are unhappy;
for the poor, at least, cling to the hopeful delusion that more money would solve
their problems -- but the rich know better.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask,
'Compared to what?'
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,
but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Robert Heinlein
An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A GREAT artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is, and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be, more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older that eighteen in her heart.
Audrey Hepburn
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm.
As you get older, remember you have another hand:
the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Theodore Hesburgh
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother.
Edgar Watson Howe
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Clarence Budington Kelland
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Charles Kennedy
Things equal out pretty well. Our dreams seldom come true, but then neither do our nightmares.
John F. Kennedy
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Harmon Killebrew
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."
Charles Krauthammer
The reigning cliche of the day is that in order to love others one must first
learn to love oneself. This formulation -- love thyself, then thy neighbor -- is
a license for unremitting self-indulgence, because the quest for self-love is
endless. By the time you have finally learned to love yourself, you'll find
yourself playing golf at Leisure World.
Vernon Law
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Georg Christan Lichtenberg
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Martin Luther
I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.
Robert McCloskey
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said,
but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Mignon McLaughlan
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Ursula K Le Guin
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
Archibald MacLeish
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
François Mauriac
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
William Maxwell
I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
Charles Morgan
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Toni Morrison
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Muslih-uddin Sadi
Human beings are like parts of a body, created from the same essence.
When one part is hurt and in pain, the others cannot remain in peace and be quiet.
If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feelings of sorrow, You cannot be called a human being.
Paddy Pallin, Australian adventurer
The best place to be is here
The best time to be here is now
George S. Patton
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Henri Petain
To write a memoir is to speak ill of everyone except oneself.
Pablo Picasso
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule, completely mistaken .
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing.
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
Pliny the Younger (61-112)
An object in possession seldom retains the same
charm that it had in pursuit.
Mary Pettibone Poole
The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.
John Powell, S.J.
The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to go through life and leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you had loved them.
Ptahhotep, Egyptian sage, c. 2200 BC
Good speech is more hidden than the emerald,
but it may be found with maidservants at the grindstones
Murphy, R. E. 2002. Vol. 22: Word Biblical Commentary : Proverbs. Word Biblical Commentary . Word, Incorporated: Dallas
Ronald Reagan
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
Maria Robinson
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and
make a new ending.
Malcolm Rogers
The science of Psychiatry is now where the science of Medicine was before
germs were discovered
Andy Rooney
I've learned..... that a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks!
Theodore Roosevelt
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena ... who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Gleason Sackman
If we could, at this time, shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
The village would be made up of: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (both North AND South), 8 Africans, 70 would be non-white; 30 white, 70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
Fifty percent of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people. All 6 would be from the United States. 70 would be unable to read, 50 would suffer from malnutrition, 80 would live in substandard housing, Only one would have a college education.
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.
Elaine St. James
No one can maintain more than three priorities. If you have a job you care about, that's a priority. If you have a family, that's a priority. Which leaves one more. Maybe it's staying in shape, maybe it's volunteering at your church.
Most people understand this intuitively. But they keep overcommiting themselves and overcomplicating their lives. So my advice is simple: figure out what your priorities are, and say "no" to everything else.
Dorothy L. Sayers
I always have a quotation for everything -- it saves original thinking.
Francis Schaeffer
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only
absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Erik Satie
When I was young, I was told: "You'll see, when you're fifty."
I'm fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
Charles M. Schultz
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Albert Schweitzer
I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you; but one thing I
know — the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who
have sought and found the way to serve.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is
superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Thomas Sowell
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty,
ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We
are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish
and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely
through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to
do too much damage to the world or ourselves.
Timothy Spall
I look like an ordinary, middle-aged bloke who is overweight. Of the five billion or so people in the world, about 1 1/2 billion are a bit like me and they deserve to be portrayed, too. If anything, you are more restricted by being a handsome young man like Tom Cruise.
You have to come to terms with what you are. There's no point in hankering; you should try to be beautiful in your own way. Beauty to me is about being someone who has something to offer the world.
John Stoltenberg
Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about
men.
Bob Talbert
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
Paul Theroux
I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.
Leo Tolstoy
The goal of your life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more
love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The
most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order
to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his
life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to
further that purpose.
Desmond Tutu
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Judith Viorst
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.
Booker T. Washington
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
John Wesley
As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be
first in the fashion nor the last out of it.
