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Motivational Quotes

2011-12-16T08:41:00.001-05:00

A collection of best inspirational & motivational quotes by famous authors, experts on success, goals, life, leadership. Get motivational, inspirational ideas.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
I can, therefore I am.
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
It's always too early to quit.
Know or listen to those who know.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Only the educated are free.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
You never know what motivates you.

Marriage Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

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

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

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.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

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

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

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.

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.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

I married beneath me, all women do.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

Biggest Collection Of funny Quotes

2011-12-13T07:50:00.001-05:00

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I like children - fried.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I like marriage. The idea.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

I never said most of the things I said.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

All men are equal before fish.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Be obscure clearly.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

I rant, therefore I am.

I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

I think serial monogamy says it all.

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

Never fight an inanimate object.

Never floss with a stranger.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Inspirational Quotes

2011-12-13T03:37:00.001-05:00

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Give light and people will find the way.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Great hopes make great men.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Hope is a waking dream.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

Ideas shape the course of history.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The best way out is always through.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Think with your whole body.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

We convince by our presence.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

You change your life by changing your heart.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Best Christmas Quotes 2013

2011-12-11T00:09:00.001-05:00

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

At Christmas, "It's a Wonderful Life" makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

Family Quotes

2011-12-06T14:12:00.001-05:00

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Family is not an important thing, it's everything.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
Family, nature and health all go together.
For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
I don't think anyone has a normal family.
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
I love my family.
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
I stay in tune with my family and God.
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
I would rather start a family than finish one.
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
My family background was deeply Christian.
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
My family is more important than my party.
My family is my strength and my weakness.
My family was my guide to my reality.
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".
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Experience Quotes

2011-12-06T02:43:00.001-05:00

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All experience is an arch, to build upon. Henry B. Adams
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Color is an intense experience on its own.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
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.
Every moment is an experience.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Experience is a great teacher.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
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.
I think we are a product of all our experiences.
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
The years teach much which the days never know.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Education Inspire Quotes

2011-12-06T01:51:00.001-05:00

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
An educated people can be easily governed.
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.
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.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Every educated person is a future enemy.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Learn to think continentally.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Responsibility educates.
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Dad Quotes

2011-12-06T01:44:00.001-05:00

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
I just wish I could understand my father.
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
My father loved people, children and pets.
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
My father taught me how to substitute realities.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

Change Quotes

2011-12-03T07:02:00.001-05:00

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
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.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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.
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Change before you have to.
Change brings opportunity.
Change in all things is sweet.
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Change is such hard work.
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
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.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
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.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Things do not change; we change.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
When you are through changing, you are through.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Business Quotes

2011-12-02T15:27:00.001-05:00

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
Being seventy is not a sin.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
I hate birthdays.
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
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.
I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
Let them eat cake.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

Age Quotes

2011-12-01T05:56:00.001-05:00

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
All diseases run into one, old age.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

Beauty Quotes

2011-12-01T03:54:00.001-05:00

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
Beauty is less important than quality.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
How goodness heightens beauty!
I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
Integrity reveals beauty.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Architecture Quotes

2011-12-01T03:36:00.001-05:00

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
A house is a machine for living in.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
Form follows function.
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
I am but an architectural composer.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
Less is more.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
The higher the building the lower the morals.
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
What people want, above all, is order.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Anger Quotes

2011-12-01T03:32:00.001-05:00

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Anger is a short madness.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Get mad, then get over it.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
He who angers you conquers you.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Life Quotes #2

2011-11-29T07:11:00.001-05:00

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Life loves the liver of it.
Life must be lived as play.
Life well spent is long.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
May you live all the days of your life.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Only a few things are really important.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
There is no wealth but life.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
What we play is life.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
While there's life, there's hope.
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.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Happiness Part 1

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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Love is trembling happiness.
Khalil Gibran

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Falling in Love Quotes

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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.
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Love is like quicksand: The deeper you fall in it the harder it is to get out.
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Loving you is what I've learned so easily. Trying to forget you is the last thing I could possibly learn because I'm deeply in love with you.
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You don't know what you do to me; you don't have a clue. You have no idea what it's like to be me, looking at you.
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The first time I saw you, I knew it was true, I'd love you forever and that's what I'll do.
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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A love song is just a caress set to music.
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You never realize how much
you love someone until they're gone.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love.
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I'm scared to fall in love scared to fall fast because every time I fall in love it never seems to last.
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As we grow older together As we continue to change with age There iz one thing that
will never change I will always keep falling in love with you.
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When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality iz better than your dreams.
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The first duty of love iz to listen.
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In real love u want the other person's good.In romantic love u want the other person.
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The mark of a true crush,iz dat u fall in love 1st, And grope 4 reasons afterward.
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When I saw u I fell in love. And u smiled becoz u knew.
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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Never frown even when u r sad u never know wen someone is falling in love with ur smile.
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Love is like water, We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we cant live with out it.
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Its easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch u.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, alwayz with the same person.
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To fall in love iz awfully simple, bt 2 fall out of love is simply awful.
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If its truly love, falling into it is not reversible, only temporarily suspended.
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One doesnt fall in love one grows into love, and love grows in him.
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True love never dies 4 it is lust that fades away. Love bonds 4 a lifetime bt lust just pushes away.
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Its so easy to fall in love bt hard to find some1 who will catch you
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Falling in love with some1 is not always going 2 b easy .. Anger .. tears .. laughter .. Its wen u want to b together despite it all. That's wen u truly love another. Im sure of it.
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Gravitation iz not responsible 4 people falling in luv.
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Youth fades; luv droops; da leaves of frndship fall; a mother'z secret hope outlives them all!
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No woman marries 4 money; thy r all clever enough, b4 marrying a millionaire, 2 fall in luv with him 1st.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Adversity Quotes

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Architects and Architecture Quotes

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Crime and Punishment Quotes

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Crowds and the Masses Quotes

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Crowds and the Masses Quotes

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Death and Dying Quotes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Education Quotes

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | God Quotes

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Goodness and Giving Quotes

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Greatness Quotes

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Greatness Quotes

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | History and Historians Quotes

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Hope Quotes

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Human Relations Quotes

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Humour and Humorists Quotes

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Indifference and Apathy Quotes

The lie is a condition of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Liars and Lying Quotes

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Life Quotes

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Loneliness Quotes

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Memory Quotes

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Men and Women Quotes

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Parenthood Quotes

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Politicians Quotes

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Proof and Certainty Quotes

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Ruin Quotes

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Weariness Quotes

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Thinking and Thought Quotes

When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Virtue Quotes

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Virtue Quotes

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Wit Quotes

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Wit Quotes

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Women Quotes

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Women Quotes

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Forgiveness Quotes

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Friendship Quotes

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Friendship Quotes

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Friendship Quotes

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Friendship Quotes

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | One Day Quotes

Only sick music makes money today.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | The Past Quotes

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Boring Days Quotes

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Boring Days Quotes

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Hope Quotes

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Decisions Quotes

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Motivation Quotes

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Goals Quotes

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Goals Quotes

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Courage Quotes

We ought to face our destiny with courage.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Courage Quotes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Time Quotes

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Family Quotes

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Heartbreak Quotes

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Applause Quotes

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Applause Quotes

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Lighten up Quotes

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Lighten up Quotes

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Evil Quotes

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Facts Quotes

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Glory Quotes

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Insanity Quotes

Better know nothing than half-know many things.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Knowledge Quotes

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Laughter Quotes

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Man Quotes

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Morality Quotes

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Power Quotes

Great intellects are skeptical.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Skepticism Quotes

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Suicide Quotes

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Inspirational Quotes

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Friend Quotes

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Relationship Quotes

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Strong Quotes

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Strong Quotes

Mark Twain Quotes

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Mark Twain | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
- Mark Twain | Advice Quotes

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain | Advice Quotes

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain | Animals Quotes

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
- Mark Twain | The Bible Quotes

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain | Books and Reading Quotes

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain | Character and Personality Quotes

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.
- Mark Twain | Character and Personality Quotes

Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.
- Mark Twain | Christians and Christianity Quotes

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
- Mark Twain | Consistency Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain | Courage and Bravery Quotes

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
- Mark Twain | Critics and Criticism Quotes

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain | Habit and Tradition Quotes

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.
- Mark Twain | Habit and Tradition Quotes

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
- Mark Twain | Death and Dying Quotes

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
- Mark Twain | Fear Quotes

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Mark Twain | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
- Mark Twain | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
- Mark Twain | Hell and the Devil Quotes

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
- Mark Twain | Honesty Quotes

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
- Mark Twain | Honour Quotes

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.
- Mark Twain | Human Relations Quotes

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain | Imitation Quotes

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain | Insults and Calumny Quotes

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain | Life Quotes

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
- Mark Twain | Literature Quotes

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
- Mark Twain | Memory Quotes

In his private heart no man much respects himself.
- Mark Twain | Men Quotes

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
- Mark Twain | Money Quotes

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
- Mark Twain | Morality and Ethics Quotes

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain | Music Quotes

What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
- Mark Twain | Originality Quotes

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
- Mark Twain | Patriotism and Nationalism Quotes

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.
- Mark Twain | Patriotism and Nationalism Quotes

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain | Politeness and Manners Quotes

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain | Politics Quotes

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
- Mark Twain | Praise and Flattery Quotes

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
- Mark Twain | Prayer Quotes

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain | Prayer Quotes

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
- Mark Twain | Prejudice and Bigotry Quotes

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
- Mark Twain | Proof and Certainty Quotes

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
- Mark Twain | Silence Quotes

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain | Sport Quotes

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain | Temptation Quotes

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
- Mark Twain | Travel and Travellers Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain | Travel and Travellers Quotes

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
- Mark Twain | Travel and Travellers Quotes

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain | Truth Quotes

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain | Wealth Quotes

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.
- Mark Twain | Wealth Quotes

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain | Wisdom Quotes

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
- Mark Twain | Wit Quotes

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
- Mark Twain | Words and Language Quotes

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain | Words and Language Quotes

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
- Mark Twain | Writers and Writing Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain | Youth Quotes

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain | Youth Quotes

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain | Happiness Quotes

To be busy is man's only happiness.
- Mark Twain | Happiness Quotes

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain | Happiness Quotes

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
- Mark Twain | Happiness Quotes

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain | Forgiveness Quotes

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
- Mark Twain | Forgiveness Quotes

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain | Helping Other People Quotes

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain | Helping Other People Quotes

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain | Friendship Quotes

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain | Friendship Quotes

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
- Mark Twain | Prayer Quotes

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain | Self-Acceptance Quotes

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
- Mark Twain | Self-Acceptance Quotes

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain | Self-Confidence Quotes

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
- Mark Twain | Self-Reliance Quotes

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain | One Day Quotes

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.
- Mark Twain | Evenings Quotes

Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain | Hope Quotes

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain | Hope Quotes

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain | Role Models Quotes

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain | Creating Positive Change Quotes

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
- Mark Twain | Creating Positive Change Quotes

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency, and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency, and a vice.
- Mark Twain | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
- Mark Twain | Decisions Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
- Mark Twain | Motivation Quotes

From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
- Mark Twain | Goals Quotes

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
- Mark Twain | Worry Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
- Mark Twain | Risks Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain | Courage Quotes

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain | Getting Going Quotes

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
- Mark Twain | Luck Quotes

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain | Opportunity Quotes

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain | Work Quotes

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
- Mark Twain | Work Quotes

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."
- Mark Twain | Adversity Quotes

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
- Mark Twain | Beginnings Quotes

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
- Mark Twain | Companionship Quotes

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain | Companionship Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain | Family Quotes

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain | Lighten up Quotes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Mark Twain | Lighten up Quotes

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain | Openers and Introductions Quotes

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain | Openers and Introductions Quotes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Mark Twain | Birthdays and Age Quotes

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain | Business Quotes

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain | Character Quotes

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
- Mark Twain | Character Quotes

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.
- Mark Twain | Cities and Travel Quotes

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he said: "Yes: the little one does."
- Mark Twain | Cities and Travel Quotes

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
- Mark Twain | Cities and Travel Quotes

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.
- Mark Twain | Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Quotes

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
- Mark Twain | Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Quotes

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
- Mark Twain | Friendship Quotes

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain | Life and Death Quotes

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
- Mark Twain | Men and Women Quotes

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
- Mark Twain | Mothers and Fathers Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain | Mothers and Fathers Quotes

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spenser is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.
- Mark Twain | Professions and Work Quotes

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain | Religion Quotes

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain | Religion Quotes

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
- Mark Twain | Vices and Foibles Quotes

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
- Mark Twain | Thank-yous and Closures Quotes

John F. Kennedy Quotes

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When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy | Action Quotes

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy | Action Quotes

The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.
- John F. Kennedy | Architects and Architecture Quotes

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.
- John F. Kennedy | Art and the Artist Quotes

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
- John F. Kennedy | Courage and Bravery Quotes

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.
- John F. Kennedy | Courage and Bravery Quotes

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
- John F. Kennedy | Goals and Ambition Quotes

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
- John F. Kennedy | Government and Rule Quotes

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 | Government and Rule Quotes

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law, or the Australian ballot.
- John F. Kennedy | Homo Sapiens Quotes

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
- John F. Kennedy | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
- John F. Kennedy | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
- John F. Kennedy | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy | Opinion Quotes

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
- John F. Kennedy | Politicians Quotes

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."
- John F. Kennedy | Politics Quotes

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy | Politics Quotes

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy | Politics Quotes

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy | Poverty Quotes

Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
- John F. Kennedy | The Presidency Quotes

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
- John F. Kennedy | Quips and Comments Quotes

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy | Science and Technology Quotes

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
- John F. Kennedy | Society and Social Quotes

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy | Society and Social Quotes

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy | War Quotes

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.
- John F. Kennedy | Work Quotes

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy | One Day Quotes

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
- John F. Kennedy | Hope Quotes

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
- John F. Kennedy | Hope Quotes

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
- John F. Kennedy | Change Quotes

Everything changes but change itself.
- John F. Kennedy | Change Quotes

Change is the law of life.
- John F. Kennedy | Change Quotes

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.
- John F. Kennedy | Goals Quotes

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
- John F. Kennedy | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
- John F. Kennedy | Courage Quotes

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live.
- John F. Kennedy | Courage Quotes

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy | Getting Going Quotes

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy | Worthy Victories Quotes

When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
- John F. Kennedy | Applause Quotes

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
- John F. Kennedy | Family Quotes

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
- John F. Kennedy | Peace Quotes

It takes two to make peace.
- John F. Kennedy | Peace Quotes

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy | Crisis Quotes

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
- John F. Kennedy | Strong Quotes

Oscar Wilde Quotes

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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

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
- Oscar Wilde | Passion and the Heart Quotes

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde | Personal Appearance Quotes

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde | Politeness and Manners Quotes

Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde | Quips and Comments Quotes

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
- Oscar Wilde | Revolution and Reform Quotes

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
- Oscar Wilde | Revolution and Reform Quotes

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
- Oscar Wilde | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
- Oscar Wilde | Society and Social Quotes

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde | Teachers and Teaching Quotes

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
- Oscar Wilde | Temptation Quotes

Punctuality is the thief of time.
- Oscar Wilde | Time Quotes

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde | Truth Quotes

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde | War Quotes

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde | Work Quotes

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
- Oscar Wilde | Writers and Writing Quotes

I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde | Writers and Writing Quotes

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde | Happiness Quotes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
- Oscar Wilde | Acceptance Quotes

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde | Forgiveness Quotes

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde | Forgiveness Quotes

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
- Oscar Wilde | Other Side Quotes

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde | Prayer Quotes

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
- Oscar Wilde | Simplicity Quotes

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde | The Past Quotes

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
- Oscar Wilde | Change Quotes

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde | Change Quotes

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.
- Oscar Wilde | Instincts Quotes

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- Oscar Wilde | Motivation Quotes

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
- Oscar Wilde | Goals Quotes

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde | Goals Quotes

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.
- Oscar Wilde | Security Quotes

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde | Risks Quotes

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- Oscar Wilde | Adversity Quotes

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
- Oscar Wilde | Events Quotes

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde | Family Quotes

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
- Oscar Wilde | Friends Quotes

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
- Oscar Wilde | Heartbreak Quotes

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
- Oscar Wilde | Introspection Quotes

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- Oscar Wilde | Life Quotes

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde | Wealth Quotes

When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
- Oscar Wilde | Money Quotes

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde | Age Quotes

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde | Argument Quotes

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
- Oscar Wilde | Bachelor Quotes

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
- Oscar Wilde | Biography Quotes

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

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
- Oscar Wilde | Childhood Quotes

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.
- Oscar Wilde | Crime Quotes

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

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
- Oscar Wilde | Death Quotes

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- Oscar Wilde | Discontent Quotes

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 Quotes

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

I can believe anything, provided it is incredible.
- Oscar Wilde | Faith Quotes

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde | Fashion Quotes

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde | Gossip 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

Men know life too early, women know life too late.
- Oscar Wilde | Life Quotes

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
- Oscar Wilde | Literature Quotes

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
- Oscar Wilde | Marriage Quotes

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
- Oscar Wilde | Marriage Quotes

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
- Oscar Wilde | Pity Quotes

I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
- Oscar Wilde | Prison Quotes

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- Oscar Wilde | Relative Quotes

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde | Sincerity Quotes

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
- Oscar Wilde | Society Quotes

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
- Oscar Wilde | Tact Quotes

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
- Oscar Wilde | Teaching Quotes

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde | Temptation Quotes

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
- Oscar Wilde | Tobacco Quotes

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde | War Quotes

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
- Oscar Wilde | Women Quotes

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
- Oscar Wilde | Never Quotes

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Oscar Wilde | Humorous Quotes

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde | Truth Quotes

Intelligence Quotes

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A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

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

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson

Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill

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

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw

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

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings

There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J. Toynbee

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Albert Einstein Collected Quotes

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This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening

"Any intelligent 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."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all 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."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Inspirational Gandhi Quotes

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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Gandhi

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Gandhi

Wise Words

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Gandhi

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

Action expresses priorities.
Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Gandhi

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Gandhi

Famous Quotes

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Gandhi

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Gandhi

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Gandhi

Gandhi Quotes on Peace

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Gandhi

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Gandhi

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Gandhi

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Gandhi

For me every ruler is a alien that defies public opinion.
Gandhi

Gandhi Quotes about Freedom

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Gandhi

Thoughts On Religion

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Gandhi

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Gandhi

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Gandhi

Gandhi Quotes about God

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Gandhi

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Gandhi

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Gandhi

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Gandhi

Quotes about Love

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Gandhi

Gandhi Quotes about Violence

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Gandhi

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Gandhi