tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88043025979010048832011-04-21T21:17:11.569-07:00dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03123677977432127690noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8804302597901004883.post-78535856778559185132008-09-27T20:30:00.000-07:002008-09-27T21:01:33.860-07:00Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?<br />- Robert Benchley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I see joggers go by, I shout, "Jim Fixx is dead. Fats Domino lives!"<br />- Jason Chase<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.<br />- Steven Wright<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Counting both times I cheated this week, I won at solitaire twice.<br />- Mary Virginia Micka<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.<br />- Larry Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score, I'm the loser.<br />- Wendy Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My best score is 103, but I've only been playing for fifteen years.<br />- Alex Karras<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's not that I really cheat at golf. I play for my health, and a low score makes me feel better.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.<br />- Joe E. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I asked my instructor how I could cut ten strokes off my score. He told me to quit on hole 17!<br />- Arlene Powers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I get confused with all the rules in golf. Let's say you're playing in L.A. and your ball lands on a dead body. Is your relief one or two club lengths?<br />- Wendy Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My golf has really improved even though my score hasn't. I'm missing the ball much closer now.<br />- Richard Bull<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.<br />- Jim Bishop<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.<br />- Phyllis Diller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Golf is not a matter of life or death. It is much more important than that.<br />- Rod Powers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.<br />- John Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Golf is a good preoccupation, but as the meaning of life ... it lacks a few things.<br />- Scotty Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.<br />- Bob Hope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.<br />- Jacob Braude<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This guy is such an obvious cheater that once, when he had a hole in one, he wrote down zero on his scorecard.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My golf is getting better all the time. Today I parred all but sixteen holes.<br />- Wendy Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.<br />- Arnold Daly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.<br />- Miller Barber<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If people focused on life's really important matters, there'd be a shortage of golf clubs.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'm not playing with my brother-in-law today. Would you play with a man who improves his lie and cheats on his score? Well, neither would he!<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You've got just one problem. You stand too close to the ball�after you've hit it.<br />- Sam Snead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I used to want to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature.<br />- Jerry Feliciotto<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.<br />- Lee Trevino<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown, act like you've been there before.<br />- Vince Lombardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody in football should be called a genius. Football players are not like Norman Einstein.<br />- Joe Theisman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then your body says, "Who, me?"<br />- Joe DiMaggio<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.<br />- George Will<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.<br />- Yogi Berra<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.<br />- Tim Conway<br />I'm an extinct volcano.<br />- Nancy Lady Astor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.<br />- Helen Rowland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.<br />- Portuguese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.<br />- Richard Brinsley Sheridan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.<br />- Erica Jong<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.<br />- Zsa Zsa Gabor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.<br />- William Congreve<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find it out.<br />- Logan Pearsall Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.<br />- Langdon Mitchell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.<br />- Isaac Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.<br />- Archie Bunker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.<br />- Ivy Compton-Burnett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.<br />- Adela Rogers St. John<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.<br />- Prince Philip<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.<br />- Joseph Barth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As a general thing, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.<br />- Robertson Davies<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.<br />- Harlan Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.<br />- Mrs. Patrick Campbell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.<br />- Rainer Maria Rilke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.<br />- Simone Signoret<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.<br />- Kathleen Norris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.<br />- Russell Green<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.<br />- Anton Chekhov<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant, of a teacher and a learner.<br />- John Updike<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.<br />- Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Husband and wife come to look alike at last.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.<br />- Eric Hoffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.<br />- J. Ogden Armour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.<br />- Henry Fielding<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.<br />- Ezra Bowen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other, to let her have it.<br />- Lyndon B. Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.<br />- Will Cuppy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.<br />- Anne Morrow Lindbergh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.<br />- Richard J. Needham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.<br />- Sacha Guitry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.<br />- Letty Cottin Pogrebin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.<br />- Finley Peter Dunne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.<br />- Carl Jung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.<br />- Marie Corelli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let there be spaces in your togetherness.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.<br />- W. H. Auden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.<br />- M. M. Musselman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making, in all, two.<br />- Ambrose Bierce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is a great institution, and no family should be without it.<br />- Channing Pollock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.<br />- Duane Dewel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.<br />- Langdon Mitchell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I married beneath me - all women do.<br />- Nancy Lady Astor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.<br />- Groucho Marx<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good husband should always bore his wife.<br />- Fred Jacob<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.<br />- Charles Warner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.<br />- Fannie Hurst<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.<br />- Arab proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.<br />- Sir Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.<br />- Sir Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Marry'd in hast, we may repent at leisure.<br />- William Congreve<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.<br />- Danish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness.<br />- Dutch proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."<br />- De Finod<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every woman should marry�and no man.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not good that the man should be alone.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Weeping bride, laughing wife; laughing bride, weeping wife.<br />- German proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Matrimony,�the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.<br />- Heinrich Heine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.<br />- Henrik Ibsen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.<br />- Andrew Jackson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.<br />- Matthew<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Something old, something new, Something borrowed, something blue.<br />- Old English Rhyme<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.<br />- Ovid<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.<br />- Polish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A prudent wife is from the Lord.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriages are made in Heaven.<br />- Tennyson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.<br />- William Thackerary<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />A man is never so weak as when a woman is telling him how strong he is.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.<br />- E. B. White<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.<br />- Jane Austen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.<br />- Mason Cooley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.<br />- J. A. Froude<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is more difference within the sexes than between them.<br />- Ivy Compton-Burnett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When women go wrong, men go right after them.<br />- Mae West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?<br />- Samuel Hoffenstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.<br />- Havelock Ellis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.<br />- W. Somerset Maugham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man's idee in a card game is war- crool, devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny, embezzlement an' burglary.<br />- Finley Peter Dunne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.<br />- Rose Macaulay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.<br />- Susan Sontag<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.<br />- Theodor Reik<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.<br />- Chazai<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.<br />- Helen Rowland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.<br />- Ivy Compton-Burnett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.<br />- Dion Boucicault<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.<br />- Maryon Pearson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.<br />- Harold Coffin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a man hears much that a woman says, she is not beautiful.<br />- Henry S. Haskins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.<br />- Joseph Epstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.<br />- Dorothy Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.<br />- William Binger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I was very young, I kissed my first woman, and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.<br />- Arturo Toscanini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Flirtation - attention without intention.<br />- Max O'Neil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.<br />- James Thurber<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.<br />- Edward Bulwer-Lytton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his wife.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.<br />- Theodor Reik<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.<br />- Christina, Queen of Sweden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It women knew what we were thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.<br />- Larry Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?<br />- Erma Bombeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman is like a tea bag�only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.<br />- Nancy Reagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Macho does not prove mucho.<br />- Zsa Zsa Gabor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tell me about yourself�your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.<br />- Peter Arno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, be agreeable if it kills you.<br />- Elsie de Wolfe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.<br />- Elayne Booster<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />She has such a nice sense of rumor.<br />- John Cutler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you ever leave me, I'll go with you.<br />- Rene Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.<br />- Jacob Braude<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?<br />- Lady Nancy Astor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.<br />- Letty Cottin Pogrebin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.<br />- Marion Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man�a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.<br />- Linda Ellerbee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.<br />- Rita Mae Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.<br />- Jay Leno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.<br />- Linda Ellerbee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are more men than women in mental hospitals�which just goes to show who's driving who crazy.<br />- Peter Veale<br />Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.<br />- Nigel Dennis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a man has money, it is usually a sign too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Inflation is determined by money supply growth.<br />- Roger Bootle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Laws go where dollars please.<br />- Portuguese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.<br />- Spike Milligan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.<br />- Marya Marines<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.<br />- Henry Fielding<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money, like a queen, gives rank and beauty .<br />- Latin proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Riches are for spending.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.<br />- Ogden Nash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is the poor people's credit card.<br />- Marshall McLuhan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.<br />- W. Somerset Maugham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it.<br />- Irish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.<br />- Howard Ahmanson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.<br />- Kin Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.<br />- Baron Rothschild<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.<br />- Ambrose Bierce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.<br />- Horace Greeley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.<br />- William Feather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is human happiness in the abstract.<br />- Arthur Schopenhauer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.<br />- Roger Starr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.<br />- Joey Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.<br />- Franklin P. Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves.<br />- Joe Louis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money isn't everything - but it's a long way ahead of what comes next.<br />- Edmund Stockdale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the bad old days, there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest, women the pleasantest and farming the most certain.<br />- William Pitt Amherst<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it.<br />- Neal O'Hara<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.<br />- Max Asnas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.<br />- Maurice Baring<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Making money is fun, but it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.<br />- John Bentley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I never been in no situation where havin' money made it any worse.<br />- Clinton Jones<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is the wise man's religion.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.<br />- James Baldwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.<br />- Billy Rose<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.<br />- Gertrude Stein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.<br />- Robert H. Jackson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.<br />- Virginia Woolf<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How do you make a million? You start with $900,000.<br />- Stephen Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once.<br />- Samuel Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.<br />- Gottfried Reinhardt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.<br />- Herbert Marshall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can't force anyone to love you or to lend you money.<br />- Jewish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.<br />- Jewish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.<br />- Jewish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.<br />- Hugh MacLennan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Gentlemen prefer bonds.<br />- Andrew Mellon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you want really big money, you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.<br />- Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it.<br />- Brian Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you like easygoing, monogamous men, stay away from billionaires.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How to double your money: Fold it over once and put it back in your pocket.<br />- Jim Dodds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars: "I would try to find the person that lost it, and if he was poor�I'd give it back."<br />- Yogi Berra<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with $10 million are no happier than people with $9 million.<br />- Hobart Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life�unless I buy something.<br />- Jackie Mason<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.<br />- Peter de Vries<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.<br />- W. C Fields<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He says he's not broke, but he is trying to sell his kidney and corneas.<br />- Wendy Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.<br />- Jacob Braude<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />"Mommy, we're not going to be poor again, are we?" "Not as long as you have that rare blood type."<br />- Brett Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, as long as you've got money.<br />- Joe E. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old�I know it is.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'd like to live like a poor man� only with lots of money.<br />- Pablo Picasso<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.<br />- Samuel Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To make money, buy some good stock, hold it until it goes up, and then sell it. If it doesn't go up, don't buy it.<br />- Will Rogers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.<br />- Doug Larson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.<br />- Logan Pearsall Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Definition of the upper crust: A bunch of crumbs held together by dough.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.<br />- Ronald Reagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer."<br />- W. C. Fields<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.<br />- Bill Vaughan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late, he's too old to enjoy it.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.<br />- Spike Milligan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.<br />- Woody Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money makes the man.<br />- Aristodemus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A fool and his money are soon parted.<br />- George Buchanan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Penny wise, pound foolish.<br />- Henry Burton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.<br />- Washington Irving<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jesus went into the temple... overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I had money everyone called me brother.<br />- Polish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.<br />- William Lowndes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!<br />- Omar Khayyam<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When money speaks the truth is silent.<br />- Russian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not greedy of filthy lucre.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The love of money is the root of all evil.<br />- Bible<br />What makes life dreary is want of motive.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They never die, who have the future in them.<br />- Meridel Le Sueur<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.<br />- Alexander A. Bogomoletz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.<br />- Miguel de Cervantes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.<br />- Luigi Pirandello<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.<br />- Sir Alexander Paterson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.<br />- Niccolo Machiavelli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.<br />- Leon Uris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.<br />- Patti Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown, And three with a new song's measure, Can trample an empire down.<br />- Arthur O'Shaughnessy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.<br />- Katherine Mansfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.<br />- Catfish Hunter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.<br />- Carolyn Kenmore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Accurate information is a key part of motivation.<br />- Mary Ann Allison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.<br />- Merlin Olsen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.<br />- Alexis Delp<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I tried to treat them like me, and some of them weren't.<br />- Bill Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.<br />- Baruch Spinoza<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I believe in using words, not fists.<br />- Susan Sarandon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me.<br />- Kate Capshaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.<br />- Elizabeth Bowen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.<br />- Napoleon Bonaparte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.<br />- Elizabeth Inchbald<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."<br />- Ted Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.<br />- Tom O'Connor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.<br />- Vauvenargues<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love teaches even asses to dance.<br />- French proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.<br />- John M. Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.<br />- Josh Gibson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.<br />- Basil W. Maturin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.<br />- Christopher Fry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't let other people tell you what you want.<br />- Pat Riley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.<br />- Robert H. Jackson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.<br />- Jane Smiley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.<br />- Samuel Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.<br />- Elizabeth Harrison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.<br />- William Allen White<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.<br />- Barbara Walters<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.<br />- Mary Kay Ash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.<br />- Jack Nicklaus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I want to do it because I want to do it.<br />- Amelia Earhart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.<br />- Michel de Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.<br />- Sylvia Porter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.<br />- Plato<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.<br />- Blaise Pascal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.<br />- Donald Trump<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.<br />- Plato<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.<br />- Arnold J. Toynbee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the spur of ignorance, the consciousness of not understanding, and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.<br />- John Pierce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different, and yet the same.<br />- Anne Frank<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love teaches even asses to dance.<br />- French proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.<br />- Satchel Paige<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause.<br />- Fred Astaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.<br />- Noel Coward<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.<br />- Joseph Conrad<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.<br />- Ouida<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One starts an action simply because one must do something.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.<br />- Dietrich Bonhoeffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.<br />- Nick Seitz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful, rich and famous, but if those are our goals, we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.<br />- Phyllis Whitney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.<br />- Juvenal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.<br />- Plato<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.<br />- Miguel de Cervantes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.<br />- Virginia Wade<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.<br />- Eric Hoffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.<br />- Saint Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.<br />- Carmen Basilio<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.<br />- Soichire Honda<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.<br />- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.<br />- Harrison Ford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.<br />- Bradford Merrill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Necessity is the mother of taking chances.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.<br />- Mary Kay Ash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.<br />- Lady Marguerite Blessington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I praise loudly; I blame softly.<br />- Catherine II<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.<br />- Mary Kay Ash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.<br />- Gail Sheehy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.<br />- Helen Hunt Jackson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.<br />- Mary Kay Ash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.<br />- Selma Lagerlof<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.<br />- Mary Kay Ash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What you praise you increase.<br />- Catherine Ponder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.<br />- Eleanor H. Porter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.<br />- Mary Kay Ash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.<br />- Charles Caleb Colton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.<br />- Ada Levenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.<br />- Brenda Ueland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.<br />- Pearl S. Buck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.<br />- Blaise Pascal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.<br />- John Ruskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."<br />- E. M. Cioran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We talk on principle, but we act on interest.<br />- Walter Savage Landor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.<br />- Barbara De Angelis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.<br />- Napoleon Bonaparte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.<br />- Marge Piercy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.<br />- Sondra Anice Barnes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.<br />- Ella Fitzgerald<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.<br />- Marilyn Home<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.<br />- John F. Milburn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.<br />- Caroline Schoeder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.<br />- Napoleon Bonaparte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.<br />- Eric Hoffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can't underestimate the power of fear.<br />- Patricia Nixon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.<br />- John M. Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man who is afraid will do anything.<br />- Jawaharlal Nehru<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.<br />- O. J. Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.<br />- Tom Landry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.<br />- Angela Merici<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.<br />- Abigail Van Buren<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Because it's there.<br />- G. H. L. Mallory<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.<br />- Daniele Vare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.<br />- Margot Asquith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.<br />- Gene Fowler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.<br />- Hannah Arendt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet.<br />- Ukrainian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.<br />- Eleanor Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.<br />- Angela Merici<br />A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.<br />- Brander Matthews<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.<br />- Robert Wm. Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.<br />- Henry S. Canby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.<br />- Clarence Day<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.<br />- Gail Godwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Learning makes a man fit company for himself.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.<br />- Patrick White<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.<br />- Rudy Manikan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.<br />- Rudyard Kipling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.<br />- Malcolm Bradbury<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.<br />- Charles William Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.<br />- George Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.<br />- Carl Jung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.<br />- Charles Caleb Colton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.<br />- Native American saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.<br />- J. Frank Dobie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.<br />- A. B. Alcott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.<br />- David T. Kearns<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.<br />- David Lodge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.<br />- Roger Scruton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When there are two PhD's in a developing country, one is Head of State and the other is in exile.<br />- Lord Samuel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.<br />- Marvin Minsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.<br />- Will Rogers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.<br />- Leon Eisenberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years.<br />- A. Lawrence Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde, President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.'<br />- Walter T. Tatara<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.<br />- Walt Whitman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.<br />- A. E. Wiggan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.<br />- Latin proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.<br />- G. C. Lichtenberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.<br />- John Ciardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education is indoctrination, if you're white - subjugation if you're black.<br />- James Baldwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.<br />- Antisthenes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.<br />- Raymond Queneau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good education should leave much to be desired.<br />- Alan Gregg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had been to night school.<br />- George Ade<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.<br />- Alfred North Whitehead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.<br />- John Wolfenden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.<br />- Henry Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.<br />- Finley Peter Dunne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.<br />- Derek Bok<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.<br />- William Ellery Charming<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.<br />- William Butler Yeats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.<br />- Thomas Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.<br />- William Howard Taft<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.<br />- Northrop Frye<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Soon learnt, soon forgotten.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.<br />- Carl Sagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />And if the student finds that this is not to his taste, well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.<br />- Flannery O'Connor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.<br />- Ambrose Bierce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.<br />- Heinrich Heine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.<br />- Alfred North Whitehead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />John Milton called his school, Christ College, 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.<br />- John W. Gardner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.<br />- John Ruskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.<br />- Anna Freud<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.<br />- L. L. Hendren<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.<br />- James Mason Wood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.<br />- Jacques Barzun<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.<br />- Albert Goldman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whenever I'm asked what college I attended, I'm tempted to reply, Thornton Wilder'.<br />- Garson Kanin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!<br />- Peter Cooper<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.<br />- B. F. Skinner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.<br />- Clark Kerr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All learning has an emotional base.<br />- Plato<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.<br />- Greek proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thus education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.<br />- Dave Barry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?<br />- David Wood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.<br />- Herbert Prochnow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!<br />- Jay Leno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.<br />- Judy Hampton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want, call us and we'll show you how to live without it."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />She's an honor student. She's always saying, "Yes, Your Honor. No, Your Honor."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash� he has a son in college.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions� everyone but a school bus driver.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked, "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"<br />- Todd Anderson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up."<br />- Lenny Bruce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language, but they come in handy in college football yells.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations�if you get my drift.<br />- Dave Barry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked, "The river or the state?"<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Letter home from, college boy: "There are 370 boys here�I wish there were 369."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.<br />- Joan Welsh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store�Back to School Sale.<br />- Brian Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I went to a high school that was so dangerous, the school newspaper had an obituary column.<br />- Rocky Ray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."<br />- Larry Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.<br />- Chad Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some drink from the fountain of knowledge�others just gargle.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week; the sadness, the joy, . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.<br />- Melissa Amernick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.<br />- Horace Mann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.<br />- Hosea Ballou<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.<br />- Samuel L. Clemens<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.<br />- Will Rogers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.<br />- Martin H. Fischer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />With renunciation life begins.<br />- Amelia Barr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.<br />- Bebe Moore Campbell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm signifies God in us.<br />- Madame de Stael<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm is life.<br />- Paul Scofield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.<br />- Joan Baez<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?<br />- Joanna Baillie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.<br />- Tennessee Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm signifies God in us.<br />- Madame de Stael<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is enthusiasm, zest.<br />- Sir Laurence Olivier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.<br />- Willa Cather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.<br />- Henry Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.<br />- Christian Morgenstern<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Boredom is the fear of self.<br />- Comtesse Diane<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.<br />- Mary Parker Follett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Exuberance is beauty.<br />- William Blake<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm moves the world.<br />- J. Balfour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.<br />- Mae West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.<br />- E. M. Cioran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.<br />- Margareth II, Queen of Denmark<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.<br />- Dorothy L. Sayers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.<br />- Edward Bulwer-Lytton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.<br />- Ann Wigmore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Energy is equal to desire and purpose.<br />- Sheryl Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.<br />- Charles Kingsley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.<br />- Charles A. Cerami<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.<br />- Catfish Hunter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?<br />- Katharine Hepburn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.<br />- L. E. Landon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.<br />- Mencius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.<br />- Christian Dior<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.<br />- Joe Knapp<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious.<br />- Virgil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.<br />- Colette<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in!<br />- David Starr Jordan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.<br />- Claude Helvetius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is man but his passion?<br />- Robert Penn Warren<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.<br />- Shakti Gawain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.<br />- Sheila Graham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.<br />- Denis Diderot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't fake.<br />- P. D. James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A willing heart adds feather to the heel.<br />- Joanna Baillie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.<br />- Beverly Sills<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.<br />- Christina Stead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.<br />- Louisa Thomas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.<br />- Judith Krantz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.<br />- George Hegel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.<br />- Chris Evert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.<br />- Nicolas de Chamfort<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.<br />- D. H. Lawrence<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The passions are the only orators which always persuade.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our passions are ourselves.<br />- Anatole France<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People who never get carried away should be.<br />- Malcolm Forbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.<br />- F. L. Lucas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.<br />- Margery Allingham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.<br />- Edward L. Curtis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When enthusiasm is inspired by reason; controlled by caution; sound in theory; practical in application; reflects confidence; spreads good cheer; raises morale; inspires associates; arouses loyalty; and laughs at adversity, it is beyond price.<br />- Coleman Cox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.<br />- William McFee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.<br />- Henri Frederic Amiel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.<br />- Vince Lombardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.<br />- Susanna Clark<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player.<br />- Pete Rose<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give me a man who sings at his work.<br />- Thomas Carlyle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.<br />- Charles M. Schwab<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.<br />- Julia Child<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world belongs to the energetic.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The real difference between men is energy.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.<br />- Hannah Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.<br />- Dale Carnegie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.<br />- Winston Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.<br />- Bliss Carman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!<br />- B. C. Forbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.<br />- David V. A. Ambrose<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.<br />- James Caan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.<br />- Thomas A. Buckner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.<br />- C. Malesherbez<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.<br />- Thomas N. Carruther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!<br />- George Matthew Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.<br />- Nicholas Murray Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.<br />- Marshal Ferdinand Foch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.<br />- Walter Chrysler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.<br />- General Douglas MacArthur<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.<br />- Edwin Way Teale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.<br />- Thomas Eakins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.<br />- Walter Pater<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.<br />- Edward B. Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.<br />- Vauvenargues<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Success is due less to ability than to zeal.<br />- Charles Buxton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.<br />- Sir Edward Appleton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He did it with all his heart, and prospered.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.<br />- Arland Gilbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home-if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful.<br />- Donald M. Kendall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.<br />- Christian Bovee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do it big or stay in bed.<br />- Larry Kelly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.<br />- Charles Buxton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Zeal will do more than knowledge.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.<br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.<br />- Ivern Ball<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.<br />- Buddha<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.<br />- Anatole France<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is energy, the central element of which is will, that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.<br />- Samuel Smiles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy.<br />- Thomas Arnold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.<br />- Federico Fellini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.<br />- Hosea Ballou<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Energy and persistence conquer all things.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.<br />- Johann von Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?<br />- Louis Auchincloss<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.<br />- Marie Beynon Ray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.<br />- Watterson Lowe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.<br />- Latin proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.<br />- General Douglas MacArthur<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.<br />- Marshal Ferdinand Foch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.<br />- Louis Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.<br />- General George S. Patton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.<br />- Arnold J. Toynbee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.<br />- Corita Kent<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.<br />- J. C. F. von Schiller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. Compete with yourself; set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.<br />- Ernest Newman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.<br />- Henry Chester<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.<br />- David Sarnoff<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Practice being excited.<br />- Bill Foster<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.<br />- Charles Lindbergh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.<br />- Bulwer-Lytton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.<br />- William McFee<br />When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.<br />- Arland Gilbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.<br />- Constance Naden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whenever you fall, pick something up.<br />- Oswald Avery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.<br />- Connie Mack<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.<br />- George Washington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.<br />- George Levinger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.<br />- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.<br />- Beverly Sills<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.<br />- James E. Sweaney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.<br />- George Cullum<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be happy, drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."<br />- Smiley Blanton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Always take an emergency leisurely.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.<br />- Sir Basil Liddell Hart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.<br />- Christie Brinkley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.<br />- Karen Horney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.<br />- Ralph W. Sockman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.<br />- Thomas A. Edison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't curse the darkness�light a candle.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.<br />- Publilius Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.<br />- John Cage<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.<br />- Richard Bach<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the going gets tough, the tough get going.<br />- Frank Leahy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.<br />- Herbert Benson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, our lot is to tack and tune.<br />- Harvey Oxenhorn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.<br />- Edward Gibbon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.<br />- Arnold Bennett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tears mess up your makeup.<br />- Julia Child<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When things go wrong, don't go with them.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.<br />- John Telgen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.<br />- Anais Nin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.<br />- Horace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.<br />- Saint Francis de Sales<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.<br />- Grace Paley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.<br />- David Hume<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.<br />- Leo Tolstoy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.<br />- Stendhal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.<br />- Michel de Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Losses are comparative, imagination only makes them of any moment.<br />- Blaise Pascal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.<br />- Jacopo Sannazaro<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.<br />- James Freeman Clarke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So long as one does not despair, so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly, things work out fairly well in the end.<br />- George Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.<br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Little things affect little minds.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.<br />- Baruch Spinoza<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it�the meaning it has in his emotional economy; the way it affects his self-image.<br />- Bonaro Overstreet<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.<br />- Boethius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.<br />- J. Kenfield Morley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.<br />- Sara Teasdale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.<br />- Catherine the Great<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.<br />- Cathy Lee Crosby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Boys, this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help you and you will come out well.<br />- Ida Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.<br />- Alberta Flanders<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.<br />- Ellen Glasgow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.<br />- Alexander Hamilton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role.<br />- Boy George<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.<br />- Victoria Holt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.<br />- Florynce Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.<br />- Mignon McLaughlin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.<br />- Kathleen Norris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When all that hate energy was focused on me, it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in, it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you, it will kill you.<br />- Yoko Ono<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.<br />- Sally Stanford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.<br />- Leigh Hunt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man turns chance into good fortune.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment.<br />- Blaise Pascal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.<br />- John Homer Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.<br />- Michel de Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.<br />- Dale Carnegie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.<br />- H. Bertram Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.<br />- Saint Catherine of Siena<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.<br />- Phyllis Bottome<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.<br />- Bernie S. Siegel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.<br />- Edmund Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Groan and forget it.<br />- Jessamyn West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.<br />- E. M. Cioran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.<br />- William Bolitho<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.<br />- Tom O'Connor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Find the grain of truth in criticism� chew it and swallow it.<br />- Don Sutton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it.<br />- James Brady<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Boys, this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower's mother<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination; the way you play it is free will.<br />- Jawaharlal Nehru<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.<br />- H. T. Leslie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.<br />- James A. Michener<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.<br />- John Hay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.<br />- Robert G. Ingersoll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.<br />- Plautus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.<br />- John Cage<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us be brave in the face of adversity.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.<br />- Dr. Kurt Goldstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.<br />- General William T. Sherman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To have courage for whatever comes in life�everything lies in that.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor is an antidote to isolation.<br />- Elizabeth Janeway<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.<br />- Lyn Karol<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.<br />- Ellie Katz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.<br />- Thomas W Higginson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.<br />- Katherine Mansfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.<br />- Linda Ellerbee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.<br />- Amy Alcott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.<br />- Evelyn Underhill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.<br />- Alan Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.<br />- Harriet Rochlin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.<br />- Margaret Sackville<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.<br />- Anne Wilson Schaef<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor brings insight and tolerance.<br />- Agnes Repplier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.<br />- Moshe Waldoks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.<br />- Sara Jeannette Duncan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.<br />- Francoise Sagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.<br />- Roman Gary<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.<br />- Max Eastman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.<br />- Ethel Barrymore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.<br />- Sigmund Freud<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.<br />- Marie Osmond<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor is just another defense against the universe.<br />- Mel Brooks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.<br />- Rollo May<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Total absence of humor renders life impossible.<br />- Colette<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide.<br />- Mahatma Gandhi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.<br />- Thornton Wilder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.<br />- Harry S. Truman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you.<br />- Gene Perret<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.<br />- Philip Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Comedy is tragedy plus time.<br />- Carol Burnett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.<br />- William Saroyan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.<br />- Dr. Ann Faraday<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.<br />- William Carlos Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.<br />- Willie Nelson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.<br />- Rita Mae Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Coming events cast their shadows before.<br />- Thomas Campbell<br />A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy, and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.<br />- Philip Roth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.<br />- Moorish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.<br />- Christopher Lasch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.<br />- Anthony Powell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.<br />- Alvin Toffler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.<br />- John D. Rockefeller III<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.<br />- Ben Lindsey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.<br />- German proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.<br />- Robert Burton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When one has not had a good father, one must create one.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.<br />- Evelyn Waugh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.<br />- William Makepeace Thackeray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A father is a banker provided by nature.<br />- French proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however.<br />- Wilhelm Busch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.<br />- Bruce Hutchison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A mother who is really a mother is never free.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.<br />- Jewish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.<br />- Clarence S. Darrow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.<br />- Will Durant<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.<br />- John Ciardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.<br />- Rabbinical saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.<br />- Florida Scott-Maxwell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.<br />- Lydia H. Sigourney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.<br />- John Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.<br />- Jean Kerr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best way to bring up some children is short.<br />- Anthony J. Pettito<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.<br />- Erich Fromm<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who doesn't desire his father's death?<br />- Fyodor Dostoevsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children.<br />- Sam Levinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.<br />- Peter Ustinov<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Your children need your presence more than your presents.<br />- Jesse Jackson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.<br />- John Holt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.<br />- Eric Hoffer<br />As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.<br />- Lucy Maud Montgomery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.<br />- Sir Robert Armstrong<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is a difficult task, Oh citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.<br />- Plutarch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />"It was as true", said Mr. Barkus, "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."<br />- Charles Dickens<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.<br />- Henry Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.<br />- Charles Caleb Colton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.<br />- Alfred North Whitehead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Too much truth Is uncouth.<br />- Franklin P. Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth is a child of Time<br />- Don Ford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time trieth truth.<br />- English proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of Time.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth exists. Only lies are invented.<br />- Georges Braque<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth never dies but lives a wretched life.<br />- Yiddish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.<br />- Walter Lippman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man who speaks the truth is always at ease.<br />- Persian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't be consistent, but be simply true.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place.<br />- John Morley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at the truth.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.<br />- Richard Steele<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.<br />- G. C. Lichtenberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.<br />- Patrick Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.<br />- German proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some people handle the truth carelessly; Others never touch it at all.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth for him was a moving target; he never aimed for the bull and rarely pierced the outer ring.<br />- Hugh Cudlipp<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Seeing's believing - but feeling is God's own truth.<br />- Irish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.<br />- Sylvia Ashton-Warner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.<br />- J. F. Stone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.<br />- Boris Pasternak<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.<br />- Arthur Schopenhauer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.<br />- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.<br />- Paul Tillich<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.<br />- William Blake<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.<br />- Johann Kaspar Lavater<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We call first truths those we discover after all the others.<br />- Albert Camus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.<br />- Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.<br />- Tom Stoppard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup.<br />- Turkish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.<br />- Thomas Jefferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What I tell you three times is true.<br />- Lewis Carroll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.<br />- Vera Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going some place else.<br />- Jerry Garcid<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.<br />- Barry Goldwater<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.<br />- Harry S. Truman<br />True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.<br />- Margery Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.<br />- John Donne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.<br />- Jennifer Aniston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Perfect love is rare indeed�for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.<br />- Leo Buscaglia<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The course of true love never did run smooth.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.<br />- Jim Bishop<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What the heart gives away is never gone.... It is kept in the hearts of others.<br />- Robin St. John<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.<br />- Lao-Tzu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love me without fear Trust me without questioning Need me without demanding Want me without restrictions Accept me without change Desire me without inhibitions For a love so free . . . Will never fly away.<br />- Dick Sutphen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.<br />- Margaret Atwood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.<br />- Garrison Keillor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved�loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.<br />- Victor Hugo<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.<br />- Sir Walter Scott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.<br />- David Viscott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.<br />- Erica Jong<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.<br />- Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity�love. And the story of a love is not important�what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.<br />- Helen Hayes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love is always bestowed as a gift�freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.<br />- Leo Buscaglia<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love conquers all.<br />- Virgil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.<br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.<br />- Jean-Paul Sartre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All movements go too far.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.<br />- George Ade<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.<br />- Josi Incenieros<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The butterfly counts not months but moments, And has time enough.<br />- Rabindranath Tagore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.<br />- Agathon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved, it proves too There was no Melody.<br />- Emily Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is the rider that breaks youth.<br />- George Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it; on the contrary, we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.<br />- Josi Ortega y Gasset<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is a great legalizer, even in the fields of morals.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.<br />- Henry Austin Dobson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let time that makes you homely, make you sage.<br />- Thomas Parnell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.<br />- Tennessee Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All things flow, nothing abides.<br />- Heraclitus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Longevity conquers scandal every time.<br />- Shelby Foote<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What may be done at any time will be done at no time.<br />- Scottish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of these days is none of these days.<br />- English proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Punctuality is the thief of time.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.<br />- Abraham Cowley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.<br />- Charles Lamb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.<br />- H. G. Wells<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.<br />- Hector Berlioz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.<br />- Dean Rusk<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time and I against any two.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time discovered truth.<br />- Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time gives good advice.<br />- Maltese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a day may bring, a day may take away.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is a kindly god.<br />- Sophocles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.<br />- Dag Hammarskjold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.<br />- Thomas Mann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every minute starts an hour.<br />- Paul Gondola<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time wounds all heels.<br />- Jane Ace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time.<br />- Lloyd Frankenberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It takes time to save time.<br />- Joe Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.<br />- Virginia Woolf<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.<br />- Isak Dinesen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!<br />- Judi Adler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.<br />- Mary Roberts Rinehart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.<br />- Dorothy Day<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."<br />- Margaret Thatcher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.<br />- Henry Ford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.<br />- Mary Caroline Richards<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.<br />- Jacob A. Riis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Home wasn't built in a day.<br />- Jane Ace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time; but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.<br />- Mary Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.<br />- Vincent van Gogh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Well-being is attained little by little, and is no little thing itself.<br />- Zeno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up.<br />- Edward S. Finkelstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you only keep adding little by little, it will soon become a big heap.<br />- Hesiod<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.<br />- Elihu Burritt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.<br />- Maria Edgeworth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.<br />- Plutarch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True worth is doing each day some little good, not dreaming of great things to do by and by.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Little by little does the trick.<br />- Aesop<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.<br />- William Cobbett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.<br />- Bernadette Devlin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.<br />- John Luly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Much rain wears the marble.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.<br />- J. G. Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.<br />- Kurt Lewin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.<br />- Jean Cocteau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can do no great things-only small things with great love.<br />- Mother Teresa<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.<br />- Bruce Catton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.<br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.<br />- Harriet Martineau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The waters wear the stones.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.<br />- Barbara Bush<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The way a chihuahua goes about eating a dead elephant is to take a bite and be very present with that bite. In spiritual growth, the definitive act is to take one step and let tomorrow's step take care of itself!<br />- William H. Houff<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Victory is won not in miles, but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.<br />- Frances Hodgson Burnett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Inches make a champion.<br />- Vince Lombardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Yard by yard, it's very hard. But inch by inch, it's a cinch.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.<br />- Hartley Coleridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit.<br />- Norman Vincent Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Yard by yard, it's very hard. But inch by inch, it's a cinch.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.<br />- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing.... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.<br />- Sarah Orne Jewett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.<br />- Anne Morrow Lindbergh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.<br />- Charles Simmons<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is a great bundle of little things.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing can be done except little by little.<br />- Charles Baudelaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can ... do big things.<br />- Herbert Butterfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.<br />- Lord Chesterfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.<br />- Alvin Toffler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Little strokes fell great oaks.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mere sense of living is joy enough.<br />- Emily Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.<br />- Alexander Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Even a small star shines in the darkness.<br />- Finnish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.<br />- Andy Rooney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.<br />- William Feather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The little things are infinitely the most important.<br />- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.<br />- Robert Brault<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is in trifles, and when he is off his guard, that a man best shows his character.<br />- Arthur Schopenhauer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.<br />- Nadia Boulanger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It was only a sunny smile, But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving; Like morning light, And made the day worth living.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.<br />- Swami Sivananda<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The smallest effort is not lost, Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; Each struggle lessens human woe.<br />- Charles Mackay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We think in generalities, but we live in detail.<br />- Alfred North Whitehead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.<br />- Edward Everett Hale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.<br />- Fanny Fern<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.<br />- Calvin Coolidge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.<br />- Eleanor Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.<br />- Edmund Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.<br />- Marian Wright Edelman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.<br />- Lao-Tzu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.<br />- Muriel Rukeyser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.<br />- Saint Francis de Sales<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Large streams from little mountains flow, tall oaks from little acorns grow.<br />- David Everett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.<br />- Diana Rankin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The distance doesn't matter; only the first step is difficult.<br />- Madame Marquise du Deffand<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.<br />- Marilyn Ferguson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.<br />- Henry S. Haskins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.<br />- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it.<br />- Dorothy Baker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Almost everything comes from almost nothing.<br />- Henri Frederic Amiel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.<br />- Dante Alighieri<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.<br />- Saint Francis of Assisi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.<br />- Publilius Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great issues develop from small beginnings.<br />- Norman Vincent Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.<br />- Livy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.<br />- George F. Nordenholt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of human destiny, are little things.<br />- R. Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.<br />- G. D. Boardman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.<br />- Alex Hailey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.<br />- Brenda Euland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.<br />- Lord Chesterfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.<br />- Edith Ronald Mirrielees<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.<br />- Bessie Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.<br />- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.<br />- Marge Piercy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.<br />- Mary McLeod Bethune<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.<br />- Anais Nin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.<br />- Marge Piercy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Human successes, like human failures, are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.<br />- Patty H. Sampson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.<br />- Joanna Field<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.<br />- Joan Benoit Samuelson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.<br />- Katherine Cecil Thurston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.<br />- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.<br />- Albert Camus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.<br />- Gamaliel Bradford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight.<br />- Elizabeth Akers Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In time take time while time doth last, for time Is no time when time is past.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.<br />- Sir William Blackstone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is money.<br />- Bulwer-Lytton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time was made for slaves.<br />- John B. Buckstone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.<br />- Lord Chesterfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.<br />- Lord Chesterfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.<br />- George Grabbe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time and tide wait for no man.<br />- English proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A stitch in time saves nine.<br />- English proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still aflying, And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.<br />- Robert Herrick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.<br />- Horace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My time has not yet come.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Better late than never.<br />- Livy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The signs of the times.<br />- Matthew<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The bird of time has but a little way To flutter�and the bird is on the wing.<br />- Omar Khayyam<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />These are the times that try men's souls.<br />- Thomas Paine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is the wisest counselor.<br />- Pericles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Seize time by the forelock.<br />- Pittacus of Mitylene<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We spend our years as a tale that is told.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.<br />- Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's a time for all things.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The time is out of joint.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O, call back yesterday, bid time return.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Make use of time, let not advantage slip.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wonderful stream is the River Time, As it runs through the realms of Tears, With a faultless rhythm, and a musical rhyme, As it blends with the ocean of Years.<br />- Benjamin F. Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."<br />- Theodore Tilton<br />Beethoven can write music, thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.<br />- Ludwig van Beethoven<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.<br />- Arthur Honegger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!<br />- Charles Lamb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.<br />- Pablo Casals<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.<br />- Miles Davis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.<br />- Colin Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.<br />- Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.<br />- Frank McKinney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.<br />- Charles Burney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.<br />- John Cage<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Canned music is like audible wallpaper.<br />- Alistair Cooke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't play what's there, play what's not there.<br />- Miles Davis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.<br />- Arturo Toscanini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Handel was a man of the world; but Bach was a world of a man.<br />- Arnold Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He was dying all his life.<br />- Hector Berlioz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.<br />- Edvard Grieg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.<br />- Edward Appleton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.<br />- Antonin Dvorak<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the best of all trades to make songs, and the second best to sing them.<br />- Hilaire Belloc<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains.<br />- Paul Whiteman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.<br />- Dave Brubeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.<br />- Ornette Coleman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.<br />- John Philip Sousa<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mozart is sunshine.<br />- Antonin Dvorak<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mozart's music gives us permission to live.<br />- John Updike<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.<br />- Heinrich Heine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is another planet.<br />- Alphonse Daudet<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is the art of thinking with sounds.<br />- Jules Combarieu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is well said to be the speech of angels.<br />- Thomas Carlyle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music touches places beyond our touching.<br />- Keith Bosley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.<br />- Gustav Hoist<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.<br />- Nadia Boulanger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Rests always sound well.<br />- Arnold Schoenberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing, did certain persons die before they sing.<br />- Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.<br />- Andre Previn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The devil does not stay where music is.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form, combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.<br />- Donald Francis Tovey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.<br />- Artur Schnabel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.<br />- Igor Stravinsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.<br />- Pablo Casals<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.<br />- Scottish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.<br />- Gioacchino Rossini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!<br />- Thomas Carlyle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up!<br />- Enrico Caruso<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.<br />- Robert Browning<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.<br />- Gioacchino Rossini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.<br />- Stephen Vincent Benet<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera, that is, provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak.<br />- Hamish Swanston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents.<br />- Vladimir Nabokov<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.<br />- Mikhail Glinka<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.<br />- Charles Lamb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.<br />- Confucius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.<br />- George Szell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is the shorthand of emotion.<br />- Leo Tolstoy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.<br />- Ethan Mordden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.<br />- Gioacchino Rossini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is only sound expressing certain patterns, so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?<br />- Arthur Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.<br />- Benny Green<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.<br />- Claude Levi-Strauss<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.<br />- Charlie Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.<br />- Ernest Newman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The function of pop music is to be consumed.<br />- Pierre Boulez<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.<br />- Thomas Beecham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am tired before the concert, not afterward.<br />- Artur Rubinstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What we play is life.<br />- Louis Armstrong<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.<br />- Igor Stravinsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!<br />- Artur Schnabel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Chamber music - a conversation between friends.<br />- Catherine Drinker Bowen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.<br />- Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I write as a sow piddles.<br />- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.<br />- Benjamin Britten<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.<br />- William Congreve<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.<br />- Montague Glass<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.<br />- Hannah More<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.<br />- Ed Gardner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.<br />- Bing Crosby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.<br />- Aaron Copland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.<br />- Igor Stravinsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.<br />- Beethoven<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.<br />- William Congreve<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.<br />- Lord Byron<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is well said to be the speech of angels.<br />- Thomas Carlyle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Why should the devil have all the good tunes?<br />- Rowland Hill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The musician who always plays on the same string, is laughed at.<br />- Horace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music is the universal language of mankind.<br />- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All of heaven we have below.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled.<br />- George Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wagner's music is better than it sounds.<br />- Bill Nye<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hell is full of musical amateurs.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />The course of nature is the art of God.<br />- Edward Young<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />After a debauch of thundershower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.<br />- Thomas Bailey Aldrich<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />From the intrinsic evidence of His creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .<br />- Sir James Jeans<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Like a gardener, I believe that what goes down must come up.<br />- Lynwood L. Giacomini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature is a catchment of sorrows.<br />- Maxine Kumin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature is not human-hearted.<br />- Lao-Tzu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature, with equal mind, sees all her sons at play, sees man control the wind, the wind sweep man away.<br />- Matthew Arnold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.<br />- Thomas Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The unnatural - that too is natural.<br />- Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.<br />- Joseph Conrad<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.<br />- John Hughes Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.<br />- Robert G. Ingersoll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.<br />- Mahatma Gandhi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men argue, nature acts.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature is usually wrong.<br />- James McNeill Whistler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Gie me a spark o' nature's fire, that's a' the learning I desire.<br />- Robert Burns<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Light may be shed on man and his origins.<br />- Charles Darwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection.<br />- Charles Darwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the "Survival of the fittest", is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.<br />- Charles Darwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants... and horseshit.<br />- Zero Mostel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.<br />- African saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.<br />- Eric Johnston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.<br />- Carl Sagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.<br />- Tennessee Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.<br />- Reinhold Niebuhr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.<br />- Paul Boese<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.<br />- Rabindranath Tagore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.<br />- Edith M. Thomas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.<br />- Brian lngalls<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.<br />- Dean William R. Inge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe.<br />- Peter de Vries<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.<br />- Thomas Carlyle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.<br />- Theodore Roethke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By nature's kindly disposition, most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.<br />- Ayn Rand<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The bluebird carries the sky on his back.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.<br />- Robert Lynd<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.<br />- Bliss Carman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal; when a man destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.<br />- Joseph Wood Krutch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.<br />- Gil Stern<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.<br />- William Wordsworth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree�all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.<br />- Ronald Reagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.<br />- Eido Tai Shimano Roshi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.<br />- John Muir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.<br />- Walt Whitman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.<br />- William Wordsworth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.<br />- Bernie Siegel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us, but we've forgotten how to listen.<br />- Michael Roads<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers, the winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.<br />- John Muir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.<br />- Patch Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The sun�my almighty physician.<br />- Thomas Jefferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.<br />- Richard Feynman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The sun gives us light, but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll become a poet.<br />- Serge Bouchard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.<br />- Percival<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.<br />- Ralph Walso Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.<br />- William Wordsworth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The bluebird carries the sky on his back.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.<br />- John Muir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.<br />- Thomas Berry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.<br />- Alice Walker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I never knew how soothing trees are�many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.<br />- D. H. Lawrence<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature is saturated with deity.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.<br />- Mark Beltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"<br />- Robin Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It was one of those perfect summer days�the sun was shining, a breeze was blowing, the birds were singing, and the lawnmower was broken.<br />- James Dent<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody sees a flower�really�it is so small it takes time� we haven't time�and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.<br />- Georgia O'Keeffe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."<br />- Max Lucado<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.<br />- Gerard de Nerval<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.<br />- Luther Burbank<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Earth laughs in flowers.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.<br />- Chinese saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The kiss of sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.<br />- Dorothy Gurney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All gardening is landscape painting.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.<br />- Malcolm Margolin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.<br />- John Ruskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.<br />- Kin Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />After rain comes fair weather.<br />- James Howell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.<br />- Marcelene Cox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This is the day the Lord had made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.<br />- J. B. Priestly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning I<br />- Leigh Mitchell Hodges<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.<br />- Anne De Lenclos<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.<br />- Ronald Reagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.<br />- Martha Stewart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.<br />- Charles Kingsley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.<br />- Mary Pickford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.<br />- Harold B. Melchart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is worth more than this day.<br />- Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.<br />- Mary Jean Iron<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.<br />- Lyndon B. Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When all else is lost, the future still remains.<br />- Christian Bovee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I look at the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes.<br />- Oprah Winfrey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Earth's crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God.<br />- E. B. Browning<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.<br />- William Cullen Bryant<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I love not man the less, but nature more.<br />- Lord Byron<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.<br />- John Dryden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, The brooks for the fishes of song.<br />- Sam Walter Foss<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature is a volume of which God is the author.<br />- Wordsworth William<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.<br />- Victor Hugo<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine!<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grass is the forgiveness of nature�her constant benediction. ... Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.<br />- John Ingalls<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.<br />- Immanuel Kant<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature abhors a vacuum.<br />- Rabelais<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.<br />- Tennyson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place� a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature has always had more force than education.<br />- Voltaire<br />Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.<br />- Erich Fromm<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Above all things have devoted love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.<br />- Michael Leunig<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Because God is love, the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love.<br />- Rick Warren<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love is not blind�it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.<br />- Julius Gordon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.<br />- St. Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you judge people, you have no time to love them.<br />- Mother Teresa<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.<br />- Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.<br />- Mahatma Gandhi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.<br />- Henry Van Dyke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.<br />- Zelda Fitzgerald<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.<br />- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.<br />- John Keats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.<br />- Harry Emerson Fosdick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.<br />- Robert Burton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.<br />- Karen Goldman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.<br />- Og Mandino<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give all to love; obey thy heart.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.<br />- John Sheffield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness.<br />- H. Jackson Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.<br />- Moses Ibn Ezra<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.<br />- Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.<br />- Thomas Merton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything�to love God in all His manifestations�human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.<br />- Leo Tolstoy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.<br />- Marianne Williamson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.<br />- Orson Welles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.<br />- Sigmund Freud<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.<br />- William Wordsworth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.<br />- John Keats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.<br />- Leighton Ford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.<br />- Mother Teresa<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All wise people say the same thing; that you are deserving of love, and that it's all here now, everything you need. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.<br />- Anne Lamott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Speak to me of love, said St Francis to the almond tree, and the tree blossomed.<br />- Nicholas Kazantzakis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Faith is the continuation of reason.<br />- William Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.<br />- St. Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.<br />- Hebrews<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.<br />- Tennyson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Faith is the force of life.<br />- Leo Tolstoy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can believe anything, provided it is incredible.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.<br />- Agatha Christie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.<br />- Frank Pittman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.<br />- Stephanie Marston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl�no superior alternative has yet been found.<br />- Winston Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them.<br />- William Saroyan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.<br />- Ernest Havemann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.<br />- Eva Burrows<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.<br />- Marge Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.<br />- Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.<br />- Giuseppe Mazzini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other�it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.<br />- Mother Teresa<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.<br />- William Butler Yeats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.<br />- Robert Orben<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.<br />- George Burns<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.<br />- Stephanie Marston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.<br />- Lewis Mumford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So if you have a grandma, Thank the Good Lord up above, And give Grandmama hugs and kisses, For grandmothers are to love.<br />- Lois Wyse<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Oh, I love to see a man with a cigar. It reminds me of my grandfather. Morning to night, he used to sit with a great big stogie dangling from his lips. Oh, the hours we kids used to spend sitting on his lap, playing with the yellow whiskers beneath his nose. Then he'd take out his teeth with the cigar still in them and chase us around the room! We'd all laugh and laugh . . . then suddenly Grampa's mood would change, and we'd all have to run for our lives. . . . You can't buy memories like that.<br />- Daphne Frasier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.<br />- Welsh proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.<br />- Sam Levenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The whole world is my family.<br />- Pope John XXIII<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.<br />- Barbara Bush<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.<br />- Thomas Jefferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.<br />- Chinese saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Babies are such a nice way to start people.<br />- Don Herold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.<br />- R. D. Laing<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.<br />- Louise Hart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.<br />- John F. Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.<br />- Henri Amiel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Children are the bridge to heaven.<br />- Persian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.<br />- George Will<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.<br />- Robert G. Ingersoll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price�only value.<br />- Bel Kaufman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.<br />- Walt Streightiff<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.<br />- Eudora Welty<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only artists for whom I would make way are�children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.<br />- Henry Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.<br />- Groucho Marx<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up�'cause they're looking for ideas.<br />- Paula Poundstone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.<br />- Pablo Casals<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.<br />- Wayne Dyer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.<br />- Bob Talbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.<br />- Frank Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.<br />- Arnold Bennett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.<br />- Black Elk<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.<br />- Conrad Hyers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Youth I Stay close to the young, and a little rubs off.<br />- Alan Jay Lerner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who love the young best stay young longer.<br />- Edgar Friedenberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.<br />- Wayne Dyer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.<br />- Randell Jarrell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.<br />- Ingmar Bergman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.<br />- Gaston Bachelard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.<br />- Mencius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What God is to the world, parents are to their children.<br />- Philo<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Honor your father and your mother.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation.<br />- Zohar<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Remember, no matter how many candles you blow out this year, there's one gal who will always think of you as young, strong and handsome�your mother.<br />- Susan D. Anderson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.<br />- Jill Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers.<br />- Jewish saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.<br />- Marcelene Cox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.<br />- O. A. Battista<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.<br />- Lois Wyse<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.<br />- Doug Larson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.<br />- Epicurus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.<br />- Woodrow Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.<br />- Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.<br />- Walter Winchell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him, that determines the quality of your friendship.<br />- Mary Dixon Thayer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not the talking that counts between friends, it is the never needing to say what counts.<br />- Shawn Green<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.<br />- Dave Tyson Gentry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.<br />- Wilfred Peterson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.<br />- Jennie Jerome Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendships are fragile things, and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.<br />- Randolph Bourne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.<br />- Henry Brooks Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.<br />- Francesco Guicciardini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.<br />- Dale Carnegie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only way to have a friend is to be one.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.<br />- Edvard Grieg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.<br />- John Selden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.<br />- Kenny Ausubel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.<br />- Albert Schweitzer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.<br />- Jerry Seinfeld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.<br />- Phyllis Diller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.<br />- Sam Levenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant� and let the air out of the tires.<br />- Dorothy Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family ... in another city.<br />- George Burns<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.<br />- Bill Cosby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower; the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.<br />- Lew Lehr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whenever I'm with my [teenager], I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.<br />- Amy Tan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?<br />- Bob Thomas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.<br />- Charles Schulz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My son has taken up meditation�at least it's better than sitting doing nothing.<br />- Max Kaufman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In America there are two classes of travel� first class and with children.<br />- Robert Bencbley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under, try not to go bald.<br />- Woody Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.<br />- Mary Karr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.<br />- Marsha Norman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage�because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.<br />- Tom Dreesen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.<br />- Robert Orben<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.<br />- Sam Levenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let's face it, there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.<br />- Janet Anderson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Family life got better and we got our car back� as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate.<br />- Erma Bombeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.<br />- P. O'Brien<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes�and six months later you have to start all over again.<br />- Joan Rivers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!<br />- Robert Orben<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.<br />- Philip Roth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.<br />- Richard Armour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Adults are just children who earn money.<br />- Kenneth Branagh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?<br />- Erma Bombeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts, but this is not true of a family tree.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My father never raised his hand to any one of his children�except in self-defense.<br />- Fred Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.<br />- Fran Lebowitz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sis, I've been wondering . . . On my birthday mom always gives me five thousand dollars. How much does she give you?<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said, "Okay, since you owe me the other five dollars, we'll call it even."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.<br />- Red Buttons<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.<br />- Erma Bombeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.<br />- Tom Dreesen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.<br />- Phyllis Diller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.<br />- Janet Anderson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .<br />- Susan Lucci<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.<br />- Martin Fenton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson, he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.<br />- Jim Bishop<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.<br />- Gary Grant<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.<br />- Thomas Jefferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.<br />- Michel Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />None but a mule denies his family.<br />- Moroccan proverb<br />A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is the parent of cruelty.<br />- James A. Froude<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must travel in the direction of our fear.<br />- John Berryman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.<br />- Antoine de St. Exupery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.<br />- Marcel Proust<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.<br />- Neil Armstrong<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.<br />- Franklin D. Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I will show you fear in a handful of dust.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.<br />- O. J. Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.<br />- Marie Curie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.<br />- Albert Camus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.<br />- Leonardo da Vinci<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.<br />- Eric Hoffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where no hope is left, is left no fear.<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.<br />- Niccolo Machiavelli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.<br />- A. E. Housman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear has a smell, as Love does.<br />- Margaret Atwood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear can be headier than whisky, once man has acquired a taste for it.<br />- Donald Dowries<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat?<br />- Joseph Conrad<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear?<br />- Hannah More<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.<br />- Alfred Hitchcock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.<br />- Ralph Connor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.<br />- James de Mille<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The horse does abominate the camel; the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse; and they say that the lion, which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal, will tremble at the crowing of a cock.<br />- Increase Mather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.<br />- Virgil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.<br />- Lee Trevino<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.<br />- General George S. Patton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.<br />- Bill W.<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.<br />- Ron Meyer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This is the century of fear.<br />- Albert Camus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.<br />- Jawaharlal Nehru<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.<br />- Nancy Astor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the most cruel.<br />- Georges Bernanos<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.<br />- Florence Earle Coates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.<br />- Joanna Field<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.<br />- Florence Nightingale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.<br />- Dorothy Thompson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.<br />- William Wrigley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.<br />- Ursula K. LeGuin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.<br />- Paul Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.<br />- Dorothy Thompson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.<br />- Arthur Christopher Benson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.<br />- Edmund Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The thing I fear most is fear.<br />- Michel de Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is terrible except fear itself.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.<br />- Franklin Delano Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.<br />- Herodotus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no devil but fear.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.<br />- Robertson Davies<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!<br />- Jean Anouilh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only thing I am afraid of is fear.<br />- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.<br />- Cardinal de Retz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All forms of fear produce fatigue.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.<br />- Shirley MacLaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.<br />- John Steinbeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.<br />- Alan Paton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear, if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release.<br />- John M. Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.<br />- Saint Thomas Aquinas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.<br />- German proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.<br />- Miguel de Cervantes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What begins in fear usually ends in folly.<br />- Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.<br />- Statius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.<br />- William Faulkner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.<br />- John F. Milburn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.<br />- Harry A. Overstreet<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.<br />- Horace Fletcher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.<br />- Virgil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.<br />- James F. Bell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man who is afraid will do anything.<br />- Jawaharlal Nehru<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Excessive fear is always powerless.<br />- Aeschylus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.<br />- Shirley MacLaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O, how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base, uncomely things it makes men do.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.<br />- John Lennon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.<br />- Edmund Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.<br />- Norman Mailer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.<br />- Lloyd C. Douglas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.<br />- Katharine Butler Hathaway<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.<br />- Vauvenargues<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is the prison of the heart.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.<br />- Angela L. Wozniak<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who fears something gives it power over him.<br />- Moorish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.<br />- Florence Nightingale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All fear is bondage.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.<br />- Joanna Field<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where fear is, happiness is not.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.<br />- Max Ehrmann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We're frightened of what makes us different.<br />- Anne Rice<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear always springs from ignorance.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.<br />- Brenda Ueland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The craven's fear is but selfishness, like his merriment.<br />- John Greenleaf Whittier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?<br />- Juvenal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen.<br />- Elizabeth Gawain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.<br />- Niccolo Machiavelli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.<br />- Horace Walpole<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We fear the thing we want the most.<br />- Dr. Robert Anthony<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.<br />- William McFee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only your mind can produce fear.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.<br />- Carl Jung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.<br />- Mary Lyon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.<br />- Frances Newton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am never afraid of what I know.<br />- Anna Sewell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.<br />- William Congreve<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.<br />- Muriel Rukeyser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.<br />- Leo Buscaglia<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear always springs from ignorance.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.<br />- F. D. Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.<br />- Bible<br />How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.<br />- Christina Baldwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.<br />- Violeta Barrios de Chamorro<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.<br />- Thomas Szasz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.<br />- Zoe Akins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.<br />- Hannah Arendt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.<br />- Charlotte Bronte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.<br />- Dr. Joyce Brothers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness means letting go of the past.<br />- Gerald Jampolsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I know now that patriotism is not enough; I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.<br />- Edith Cavell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.<br />- Marie Corelli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.<br />- Kin Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anger as soon as fed is dead, 'tis starving makes it fat.<br />- Emily Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.<br />- Marlene Dietrich<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.<br />- Sydney J. Harris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.<br />- Isabelle Holland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Courage and clemency are equal virtues.<br />- Mary Delariviere Manley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.<br />- Kathleen Norris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.<br />- Sholem Asch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.<br />- Marlene Dietrich<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.<br />- Malcolm Forbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.<br />- Catherine Ponder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.<br />- Catherine Porter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.<br />- Corrie ten Boom<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.<br />- Confucius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who understands much, forgives much.<br />- Madame de Stael<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.<br />- Christina Baldwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.<br />- Simone Weil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Know all and you will pardon all.<br />- Thomas a Kempis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.<br />- Helen Prejean<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.<br />- Marion Zimmer Bradley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.<br />- Gwen Bristow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The heart has always the pardoning power.<br />- Anne-Sophie Swetchine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To understand is to forgive, even oneself.<br />- Alexander Chase<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.<br />- Dr. Alexis Carrel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.<br />- Mohandas Gandhi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.<br />- Laurence Sterne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.<br />- Arthur J. Rehrat<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.<br />- Isaac Watts<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.<br />- Audre Lorde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.<br />- Olive Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.<br />- Alcoholics Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To oppose something is to maintain it.<br />- Ursula K. LeGuin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.<br />- Shirley MacLaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.<br />- William H. Walton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.<br />- Marianne Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself.<br />- Minako Ohba<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.<br />- Maude Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.<br />- Robert Assaglioli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I tell you, there is no such thing as creative hate!<br />- Willa Cather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Reject hatred without hating.<br />- Mary Baker Eddy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hate would destroy him who hated.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.<br />- Mary Renault<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.<br />- Barbara Sher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.<br />- Douglas V. Steere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.<br />- Indira Gandhi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.<br />- Kathleen Norris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hate is not a good counselor.<br />- Victoria Wolff<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.<br />- Harry Emerson Fosdick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.<br />- Rollo May<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.<br />- Dorothy Thompson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.<br />- Abigail Van Buren<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.<br />- Herman Hesse<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fire destroys that which feeds it.<br />- Simone Weil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.<br />- Oprah Winfrey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whom they have injured, they also hate.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.<br />- Marion Woodman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.<br />- Helen Alfredsson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anger is a short madness.<br />- Horace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My mother used to say, "He who angers you conquers you."<br />- Elizabeth Kenny<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The angry people are those people who are most afraid.<br />- Dr. Robert Anthony<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anger as soon as fed is dead, 'tis starving makes it fat.<br />- Emily Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.<br />- Madeleine Brent<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Buddha<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy; its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.<br />- Charlotte Bronte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.<br />- Carrie Fisher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.<br />- Moses Luzzatto<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.<br />- Rae Foley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.<br />- Isaac Friedmann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One forgives to the degree that one loves.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.<br />- Marya Mannes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the final form of love.<br />- Reinhold Niebuhr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?<br />- Margaret Gatty<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.<br />- John Sheffield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best proof of love is trust.<br />- Dr. Joyce Brothers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.<br />- Peter Ustinov<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. ... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.<br />- Ellen Goodman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.<br />- Jeanne Moreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.<br />- Paramahansa Yogananda<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.<br />- Judy Collins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is God's command.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God will forgive me, that is His business.<br />- Heinrich Heine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!<br />- Heinrich Heine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.<br />- Jimmy Carter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.<br />- Dag Hammarskjold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.<br />- Catherine Ponder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.<br />- Buddha<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.<br />- Gerald Jampolsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.<br />- Catherine Ponder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Judge not, that ye be not judged.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.<br />- Saint Francis of Assisi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.<br />- G. Weatherly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.<br />- Harriet Uts Nelson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.<br />- Robert Muller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.<br />- Hannah Arendt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.<br />- Gerald Jampolsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.<br />- Jean Paul Richter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.<br />- Saint Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.<br />- Marcus Porcius Cato<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?<br />- Dolores Huerta<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself, even a little, is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.<br />- Eugene Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted.<br />- Ceanne DeRohan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.<br />- Publilius Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.<br />- Catharine Marshall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.<br />- Harvey Fergusson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To understand is to forgive, even oneself.<br />- Alexander Chase<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.<br />- H. G. Bohn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.<br />- Charles William<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.<br />- Horace Bushnell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!<br />- Robert E. Lee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.<br />- Meridel Le Sueur<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is an adventure in forgiveness.<br />- Norman Cousins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The cut worm forgives the plow.<br />- William Blake<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.<br />- Joseph Jacobs<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How shall I love the sin, yet keep the sense, And love the offender, yet detest the offence?<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.<br />- George Macdonald<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?<br />- Joseph Conrad<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O friends, I pray tonight, Keep not your kisses for my dead cold brow. The way is lonely; let me feel them now. Think gently of me; I am travel-worn, My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive! O hearts estranged, forgive, I plead! When ceaseless bliss is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long tonight.<br />- Belle Eugenia Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us forget and forgive injuries.<br />- Miguel de Cervantes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.<br />- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.<br />- Madame Dorothee Deluzy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.<br />- Jessamyn West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.<br />- Norman Vincent Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, faith means believing the unbelievable, and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To err is human; to forgive, divine.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.<br />- Mary Jean Iron<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.<br />- Marianne Williamson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.<br />- Maltbie D. Babcock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severely unequalled, is almost sure to be a good-humored person.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every dog has its day, but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.<br />- Winifred Gordon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.<br />- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.<br />- e. e. cummings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.<br />- Jane Rule<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Yes, there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.<br />- Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?<br />- William Lyon Phelps<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.<br />- Charles Kingsley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.<br />- Ruth Ann Schabacker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.<br />- Cynthia Ozick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?<br />- Leo Buscaglia<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My country ... gave me schooling, independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.<br />- Herbert Hoover<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.<br />- Abraham Tucker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.<br />- Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.<br />- Dag Hammarskjold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shan't worry about it too much.<br />- William Gaines<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.<br />- Bill Veeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The advantages of a losing team: (i) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear, (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day, "What was the score?"; people take it for granted that you lost.<br />- Elmer E. Bates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That which does not kill me makes me stronger.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.<br />- Golda Meir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.<br />- William Matthews<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.<br />- Saint Basil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.<br />- Henry J. Kaiser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.<br />- Dr. James G. Bilkey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.<br />- Aughey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The basis of optimism is sheer terror.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.<br />- Robert Nathan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.<br />- W. Clement Stone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.<br />- Maurice Setter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.<br />- Robert Quillen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!<br />- Virgil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.<br />- W. N. Rieger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.<br />- Simone Weil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.<br />- William Saroyan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.<br />- Oprah Winfrey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no wealth but life.<br />- John Ruskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.<br />- Abraham Heschel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life may be hard, but it's also wonderful.<br />- Small Change<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.<br />- Agatha Christie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.<br />- Henry Van Dyke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be alive, to be able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.<br />- Arthur Rubinstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!<br />- Don Marquis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mere sense of living is joy enough.<br />- Emily Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.<br />- Marge Piercy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.<br />- Eileen Stukane<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?<br />- Logan Pearsall Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.<br />- John Ruskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.<br />- Horace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.<br />- Anne Lamott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?<br />- Matthew Arnold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.<br />- Cynthia Ozick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.<br />- Georges Duhamel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?<br />- Thomas W. Higginson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.<br />- Julian Simon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.<br />- Dale Carnegie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.<br />- Izaak Walton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness lies, first of all, in health.<br />- George William Curtis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.<br />- John Locke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Health is the vital principle of bliss.<br />- James Thomson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happy the man who can count his sufferings.<br />- Ovid<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.<br />- Alphonse Karr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.<br />- John Rothchild<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.<br />- Matthew Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Think of the ills from which you are exempt.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.<br />- Arthur Schopenhauer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Better to suffer than to die.<br />- Jean de la Fontaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.<br />- Bertolt Brecht<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who limps still walks.<br />- Stanislaw Lee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.<br />- Sydney Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pain is no longer pain when it is past.<br />- Margaret Junkin Preston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.<br />- Latin proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.<br />- Jean-Jacques Rousseau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.<br />- Thomas Jefferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The end of pain we take as happiness.<br />- Giacomo Leopardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.<br />- Giacomo Leopardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.<br />- Epicurus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.<br />- Plautus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is better to be looked over than overlooked.<br />- Mae West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.<br />- Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.<br />- Patty Sheehan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Few love what they may have.<br />- Ovid<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.<br />- Richard L. Evans<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not customary to love what one has.<br />- Anatole France<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.<br />- Woody Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou striv'est to get; and what thou hast, forget'est.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.<br />- John Oliver Hobbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.<br />- French proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Long only for what you have.<br />- Andre Gide<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.<br />- French proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.<br />- Thomas Sprat<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.<br />- Pindar<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.<br />- Jorge Luis Borges<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.<br />- Dan Millman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.<br />- Ken Keyes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If there's no bread, cakes are very good.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.<br />- J. Petit-Senn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.<br />- Joseph Fort Newton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.<br />- Joseph Roux<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.<br />- Ken Keyes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.<br />- Andre Gide<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.<br />- Albert Camus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.<br />- Francois de Fenelon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.<br />- Elizabeth Bowen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.<br />- Epicurus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.<br />- Mignon McLaughlin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.<br />- Frank Swinnerton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.<br />- John Steinbeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There must be more to life than having everything.<br />- Maurice Sendak<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Is there no end to this escalation of desire?<br />- Marya Mannes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.<br />- Vernon Luchies<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.<br />- Roy L. Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.<br />- Burmese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.<br />- Gwyn Thomas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can't appreciate home until you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.<br />- O. Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?<br />- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.<br />- Anne Frank<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.<br />- Hubert H. Humphrey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?<br />- William A. Ward<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.<br />- Booth Tarkington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.<br />- Maxim Gorky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.<br />- Nancy Hale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.<br />- English proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.<br />- Susan L. Lenzkes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away.<br />- Emily Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Generally the man with a good wife, or the woman with a good husband, or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.<br />- James Douglas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.<br />- Susan L. Lenzkes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.<br />- H. U. Westermayer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.<br />- William Law<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.<br />- W. T. Purkiser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart... will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.<br />- Maurice Dametz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you," that would suffice.<br />- Meister Eckhart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.<br />- Estonian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.<br />- Francis Schaeffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.<br />- Jeremy Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness.<br />- J. Robert Maskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.<br />- Karl Barth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.<br />- Melody Beattie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.<br />- Elizabeth Carter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.<br />- Comtesse Diane<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Appreciation is yeast, lifting ordinary to extraordinary.<br />- Mary-Ann Petro<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Gratitude is the memory of the heart.<br />- Jean Baptiste Massieu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.<br />- Anne Morrow Lindbergh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.<br />- Gladys Browyn Stern<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.<br />- Joseph Wood Krutch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.<br />- Anne Morrow Lindbergh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.<br />- Hannah Farnham Lee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He has enough who is contented with little.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.<br />- Mary Jane Sherfey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />More than enough is too much.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.<br />- Augusta Gregory<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.<br />- Horace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.<br />- Epicurus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.<br />- William Blake<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enough is as good as a feast.<br />- John Heywood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.<br />- Homer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.<br />- William Ralph Inge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave con-tently.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.<br />- Walt Whitman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Too much is unwholesome.<br />- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.<br />- Abraham Cowley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.<br />- Hosea Ballou<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing in excess.<br />- Solon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ask the gods nothing excessive.<br />- Aeschylus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.<br />- Publilius Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.<br />- Oliver Goldsmith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.<br />- Christian Bovee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.<br />- Lee Segall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.<br />- Channing Pollock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.<br />- Jean Francois Regnard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.<br />- Donald Horban<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.<br />- Kin Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.<br />- Epicurus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.<br />- John Stuart Mill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How few are our real wants, and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.<br />- Julius Charles Hare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.<br />- David Grayson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who covets more is evermore a slave.<br />- Robert Herrick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How many things there are which I do not want.<br />- Socrates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.<br />- Timothy Dwight<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.<br />- Lucretius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.<br />- C. F. Ramuz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.<br />- Walter Savage Landor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.<br />- Francis Beaumont<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.<br />- William Shenstone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.<br />- Alexander Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you would but exchange places with the other fellow, how much more you could appreciate your own position.<br />- Victor E. Gardner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.<br />- Thomas Fitzosborne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Double-no, triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.<br />- Ronald Reagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.<br />- Ancient Persian saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.<br />- Ann Landers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.<br />- Socrates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The covetous man is always poor.<br />- Claudian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is poor who does not feel content.<br />- Japanese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.<br />- Sara Teasdale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.<br />- French proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.<br />- Marlene Dietrich<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.<br />- Merry Browne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I've had an exciting life; I married for love and got a little money along with it.<br />- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True affluence is not needing anything.<br />- Gary Snyder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.<br />- Millicent Garrett Fawcett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.<br />- Lady Marguerite Blessington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.<br />- Eleonora Duse<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My friends are my estate.<br />- Emily Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are people who have money and people who are rich.<br />- Coco Chanel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is rich that is satisfied.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender-these form the wealth of home.<br />- Sarah Josepha Hale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is well paid that is well satisfied.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who is contented is rich.<br />- Lao-Tzu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.<br />- Joyce A. Myers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.<br />- The Panchatantra<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.<br />- Corra May Harris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.<br />- Linda Henley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.<br />- Etty Hillesum<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is not rich that possesses much, but he that is content with what he has.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.<br />- William Matthews<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in, and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.<br />- Gamaliel Bradford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.<br />- Jean-Jacques Rousseau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.<br />- Malcolm Forbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.<br />- Greek proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Contentment is worth more than riches.<br />- German proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content."<br />- Lauren Bacall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead.<br />- Hafez<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is poor who does not feel content.<br />- Japanese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.<br />- Sa'di<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who is content with nothing possesses all things.<br />- Nicolas Boileau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.<br />- Mackintosh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.<br />- Aesop<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Content may dwell in all stations. To be low, but above contempt, may be high enough to be happy.<br />- Sir Thomas Browne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is not rich that possesses much, but he that is content with what he has.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />And be content with such things as ye have.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.<br />- Doug Larson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are never content with our lot.<br />- Jean de la Fontaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.<br />- Doris Mortman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.<br />- Charles Caleb Colton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.<br />- Charles Dickens<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.<br />- John Greenleaf Whittier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.<br />- Colette<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?<br />- Lillian Hellman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are men who are happy without knowing it.<br />- Vauvenargues<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are all of us richer than we think we are.<br />- Michel de Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.<br />- Bertolt Brecht<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.<br />- Mary Todd Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is hard. Next to what?<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.<br />- Stephen Sondheim<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.<br />- Mary Webb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.<br />- Mae West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.<br />- Sacred ritual chant<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.<br />- Pearl Bailey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.<br />- Michael Apostolius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.<br />- Martial<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one is satisfied with his fortune, or dissatisfied with his intellect.<br />- Antoinette Deshouliere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.<br />- Alfred, Lord Tennyson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good, to forgive; Best, to forget.<br />- Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bear and forbear.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To err is human, to forgive, divine.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgive others often, yourself never.<br />- Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.<br />- Peter von Winter<br />And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.<br />- Carrie Jacobs Bond<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?<br />- Emily Bronte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life without a friend is death without a witness.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.<br />- Joseph Roux<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.<br />- Amelia Barr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.<br />- Willa Cather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.<br />- Zora Neale Hurston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is the bread of the heart.<br />- Mary Russell Mitford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no hope or joy except in human relations.<br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.<br />- Vincent van Gogh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Your wealth is where your friends are.<br />- Plautus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend for I-today-I found a friend.<br />- Helen Barker Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.<br />- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.<br />- Gloria Vanderbilt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?<br />- D. H. Lawrence<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.<br />- Bob Lemon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.<br />- Saint Thomas Aquinas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man's best support is a very dear friend.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.<br />- Eliza Cook<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.<br />- Rupert Brooke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.<br />- Saint Thomas Aquinas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.<br />- Saint Alfred of Rievaulx<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My only sketch, profile, of heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.<br />- Emily Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.<br />- Billie Holiday<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.<br />- Carlos P. Romulo<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.<br />- William E. Holler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no physician like a true friend.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship.<br />- William Blake<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.<br />- Lady Henry Somerset<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.<br />- Helen Barker Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.<br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.<br />- Woodrow Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppression, the sanctuary of our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.<br />- Jeremy Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.<br />- Epicurus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter, and the love of friends.<br />- Hilaire Belloc<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.<br />- Anais Nin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.<br />- Gail Godwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!<br />- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.<br />- Merry Browne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.<br />- Randolph Bourne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er, and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.<br />- Spencer M. Free<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.<br />- Izaak Walton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends are the sunshine of life.<br />- John Hay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.<br />- Katharine Butler Hathaway<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.<br />- Arthur H. Stainback<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My life seems to have become suddenly hollow, and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.<br />- John Addington Symonds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A true friend is the best possession.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.<br />- Epicurus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough, For I am sure of you.<br />- Amelia Barr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.<br />- Lois L. Kaufman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.<br />- Duchess Prazlin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.<br />- Virginia Woolf<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.<br />- Erma Bombeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.<br />- Erma Bombeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.<br />- Anne Bradstreet<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.<br />- Edna Buchanan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife, the way to stay close is to do things together and share.<br />- Barbara Bush<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jimmy and I were always partners.<br />- Rosalynn Carter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.<br />- Jennie Jerome Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses.<br />- Comtesse Diane<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.<br />- Linda Ellerbee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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 become.<br />- Elizabeth Fishel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.<br />- Elizabeth Fishel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.<br />- Elizabeth Fishel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where there is lasting love, there is a family.<br />- Shere Hite<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?<br />- Alice Walker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.<br />- Jane Howard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.<br />- Gloria Naylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.<br />- Anais Nin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.<br />- Sandra Day O'Connor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.<br />- Marilynne Robinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.<br />- Jill Ruckelshaus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.<br />- Jane Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.<br />- Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One can find traces of every life in each life.<br />- Susan Griffin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.<br />- Kathleen Norris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.<br />- Robert J. Havighurst<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.<br />- Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.<br />- Randolph Bourne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.<br />- Joy Harjo<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only way to have a friend is to be one.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.<br />- John D. MacDonald<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.<br />- Eleanor H. Porter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.<br />- John Churton Collins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.<br />- Paramahansa Yogananda<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of getting out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.<br />- Thomas Hughes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.<br />- Quintus Ennius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values; the other half is tolerance in one's own views.<br />- Daniel Frohman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.<br />- William Penn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it.<br />- Harry E. Humphreys<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.<br />- Rebecca West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.<br />- George Washington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.<br />- Sophocles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any man will usually get from other men what he is expecting from them. If he is looking for friendship, he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.<br />- John Richelsen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.<br />- Don Marquis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He does good to himself who does good to his friend.<br />- Erasmus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not endured with patient resignation.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.<br />- Dave Tyson Gentry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.<br />- Saint Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.<br />- William Penn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.<br />- Lydia M. Child<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.<br />- Charles M. Schwab<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it.<br />- Dagobert D. Runes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not the services we render them, but the services they render us, that attaches people to us.<br />- Labiche et Martin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.<br />- Evelyn Waugh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give and take makes good friends.<br />- Scottish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.<br />- Saint Francis de Sales<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.<br />- David Grayson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.<br />- Jean Baptiste LaCordaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.<br />- James Boswell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You win the victory when you yield to friends.<br />- Sophocles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.<br />- R. D. Hicks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.<br />- Eustace Budgell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.<br />- Nan Fairbrother<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.<br />- Marge Piercy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.<br />- Louisa May Alcott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.<br />- B. C. Forbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.<br />- Maya Angelou<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.<br />- Arnold Glasow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.<br />- William Feather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship requires great communication.<br />- Saint Francis de Sales<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.<br />- Thucydides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.<br />- Anne Morrow Lindbergh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.<br />- Sir Walter Scott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.<br />- Ann Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.<br />- George E. Woodberry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.<br />- John Muir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.<br />- Elizabeth Foley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.<br />- Scottish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A hedge between keeps friendships green.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.<br />- May Sarton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.<br />- Elizabeth Cutter Morrow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.<br />- Laurence J. Peter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.<br />- Sophie Irene Loeb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.<br />- Turkish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.<br />- Publilius Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love your friend with his fault.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.<br />- Arnold Bennett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.<br />- Jean de la Bruyere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.<br />- Norman Douglas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.<br />- Madame Dorothee Deluzy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.<br />- Ned Rorem<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.<br />- David Storey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be social is to be forgiving.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.<br />- Johann von Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.<br />- Camillo Di Cavour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love.<br />- Mark Rutherford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.<br />- Joseph Roux<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Between friends there is no need of justice.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What I cannot love, I overlook.<br />- Anais Nin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Treat your fiends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.<br />- Jennie Jerome Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.<br />- Letty Cottin Pogrebin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.<br />- Samuel Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.<br />- Marian Wright Edelman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.<br />- Erastus Wiman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier, that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.<br />- Ouida<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.<br />- Lord Halifax<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all.<br />- Moroccan proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.<br />- Mignon McLaughlin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.<br />- Logan Pearsall Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are worse words than cuss words; there are words that hurt.<br />- Tillie Olsen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.<br />- Rebecca West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.<br />- Susan Griffin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.<br />- Ouida<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.<br />- Doris Lessing<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four friends in the world<br />- Blaise Pascal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.<br />- Liv Ullmann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.<br />- Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.<br />- Rita Mae Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give me the avowed, the erect and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, oh save me from the candid friend!<br />- George Canning<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.<br />- Arthur Brisbane<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.<br />- Robert Lynd<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.<br />- John Lubbock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.<br />- Moliere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.<br />- Marshall McLuhan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.<br />- Jean de la Fontaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.<br />- Katherine Mansfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.<br />- Julius Charles Hare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.<br />- Albert Camus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.<br />- Francine Du Plessix Gray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.<br />- Betty White<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.<br />- Alice Duer Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.<br />- George Chapman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.<br />- Walter Savage Landor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.<br />- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually, by recounting our grief, we can lighten each other's sorrow.<br />- The Kanteletar<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.<br />- Antisthenes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.<br />- Hippolytus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forget your woes when you see your friend.<br />- Priscian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.<br />- Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.<br />- Julia Seton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.<br />- Charles Lamb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.<br />- Katherine Mansfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.<br />- Elizabeth Foley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.<br />- Arlene Francis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.<br />- Jane Howard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.<br />- Ulysses S. Grant<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.<br />- Sarah Orne Jewett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.<br />- Dorothy Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.<br />- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.<br />- John Churton Collins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.<br />- Philip Massinger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.<br />- Demetrius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.<br />- Anne Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.<br />- Oprah Winfrey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have lost friends, some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.<br />- Virginia Woolf<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.<br />- Cokie Roberts<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.<br />- Ogden Nash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trouble shared is trouble halved.<br />- Dorothy L. Sayers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends come and go, enemies linger.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.<br />- Margaret Culkin Banning<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.<br />- Sir Walter Scott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.<br />- General Sir John Monash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.<br />- Lorraine Anderson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.<br />- Vera Brittain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.<br />- Catherine Drinker Bowen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.<br />- George Matthew Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.<br />- Emil Ludwig<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.<br />- A. J. Cronin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.<br />- Randolph Bourne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.<br />- Robin Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Scratch a lover, and find a foe.<br />- Dorothy Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.<br />- Letty Cottin Pogrebin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.<br />- Mary Webb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.<br />- Gloria Naylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.<br />- Mother Teresa<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.<br />- Charles Dudley Warner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.<br />- Helen Hunt Jackson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.<br />- Anais Nin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.<br />- Francis Marion Crawford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.<br />- Alfred North Whitehead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.<br />- Robert E. Frederick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!<br />- Hannah Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.<br />- Horace Walpole<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.<br />- Edvard Grieg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky.<br />- Pablo Picasso<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.<br />- Gelett Burgess<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends and wine should be old.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.<br />- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best mirror is an old friend.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.<br />- Pietro Aretino<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.<br />- Elmer G. Letterman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.<br />- Julie Holz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.<br />- Sophocles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hold a true friend with both your hands.<br />- Nigerian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />None is so rich as to throw away a friend.<br />- Turkish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.<br />- Charles Caleb Colton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We die as often as we lose a friend.<br />- Publilius Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.<br />- Florence H. Winterburn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.<br />- Sophocles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.<br />- Wilson Mizner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.<br />- Arthur Christopher Benson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.<br />- Francesco Guicciardini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.<br />- Apocrypha<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.<br />- S. Weir Mitchell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.<br />- Charles Jones<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.<br />- Frank A. Vanderlip<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.<br />- Sarah Orne Jewett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many a friendship-long, loyal, and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.<br />- Frederick W Faber<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.<br />- Austin O'Malley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best time to make friends is before you need them.<br />- Ethel Barrymore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.<br />- Henry Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.<br />- Logan Pearsall Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day in, day out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?<br />- Ruth Benedict<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.<br />- Miguel de Cervantes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, some of them will turn into friends.<br />- John Hay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.<br />- Lord Chesterfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We often choose a friend as we do a mistress, for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.<br />- George Washington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.<br />- Socrates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.<br />- Sir Thomas Browne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Books and friends should be few but good.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sudden friendship, sure repentance.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.<br />- Walter Savage Landor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on the number, but the choice of friends.<br />- Abraham Cowley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.<br />- Arlene Francis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Treat your friends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.<br />- Jennie Jerome Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.<br />- Faith Baldwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.<br />- Joseph Marshall Wade<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess, even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.<br />- The Panchatantra<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tell me whom you frequent, and I will tell you who you are.<br />- French proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.<br />- George Washington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.<br />- Johann von Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.<br />- Miguel de Cervantes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who friendship with a knave hath made, is judged a partner in the trade.<br />- John Gay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.<br />- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.<br />- Solomon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.<br />- Tehyi Hsieh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.<br />- Latin proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep good men company, and you shall be of their number.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man becomes like those whose society he loves.<br />- Hindu proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.<br />- Arab proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.<br />- Jonathan Swift<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.<br />- Turkish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Have no friends not equal to yourself.<br />- Confucius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.<br />- Publilius Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.<br />- Woodrow Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man is known by the company he keeps.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.<br />- Jean-Henri Fabre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.<br />- Sallust<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.<br />- Henry Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men only become friends by community of pleasures.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.<br />- Charlotte Bronte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.<br />- Saint Alfred of Rievaulx<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.<br />- Francis Quarles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.<br />- Cyril Connolly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.<br />- Thomas A. Edison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself, and the others for themselves.<br />- Gerard de Nerval<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.<br />- James F. Byrnes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.<br />- Frances Farmer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.<br />- Michel de Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.<br />- Eleanor Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In a friend you find a second self.<br />- Isabelle Norto<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.<br />- Terence<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.<br />- David Grayson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is one mind in two bodies.<br />- Mencius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.<br />- Susannah Centlivre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend is, as it were, a second self.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend is like a poem.<br />- Persian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend is a present you give to yourself.<br />- Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.<br />- The Optimist<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.<br />- Dag Hammarskjold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.<br />- Homer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A faithful friend is the medicine of life.<br />- Apocrypha<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends are a second existence.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A real friend helps us think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, be our finest selves.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is a furrow in the sand.<br />- Tongan proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is love without his wings!<br />- Lord Byron<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True friendship is self-love at second hand.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.<br />- B. C. Forbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.<br />- Augustine Birrell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.<br />- Gabrielle Reece<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.<br />- Joan Baez<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easier to forgive an enemy than it is a friend.<br />- Madame Dorothee Deluzy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.<br />- Sarah Ellis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.<br />- Kathleen Norris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.<br />- Louise Bernikow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can trust my friends. ... These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.<br />- Cher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. ... It's the way friends make love to one another.<br />- Annie Gottlieb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.<br />- Althea Gibson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharp-eneth the countenance of his friend.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.<br />- Frances Ward Weller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self.<br />- Edith Wharton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love demands infinitely less than friendship.<br />- George Jean Nathan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The particular human chain we're a part of is central to our individual identity.<br />- Elizabeth Stone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.<br />- Alice Walker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.<br />- Plautus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.<br />- Czech proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.<br />- Oscar W Firkins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.<br />- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.<br />- Maria Edgeworth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The thicker one gets with some people, the thinner they become.<br />- Puzant Thomain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.<br />- J. Petit-Senn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The company makes the feast.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When one friend washes another, both become clean.<br />- Dutch proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."<br />- Arthur Schopenhauer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.<br />- Dr. Wilhelm Stekhel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love me, please; I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.<br />- Edna Saint Vincent Millay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.<br />- Charles Caleb Colton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great friendship is never without anxiety.<br />- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. 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