Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Edison

 

 

 

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. - George Jackson

 

 

 

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. - Victoria Holt

 

 

 

No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere. - Prince

 

 

 

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. - Herbert Spencer

 

 

 

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. - Victor Hugo

 

 

 

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

 

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?. - George Eliot

 

Everything is not as it appears to be. - Proverb

 

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

 

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Curiosity is the first Stage of Enlightenment. - Unknown

 

Everything is not as it appears to be. - Proverb

 

Not all who wander are lost. - J. R. R. Tolkien

 

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus

 

Listen to your elders not because they are right, but because they have more experience at being wrong. - Unknown

 

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. - Epictetus

 

God is not what you imagine, or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. - Saint Augustine

 

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. – Unknown

 

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

Never test the depth of the water with both feet. - Unknown

 

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. - Mark Twain

 

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

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

 

 

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. - Christopher Columbus

 

 

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

 

 

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

 

 

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis D. Brandeis

 

 

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. - George Santayana

 

 

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells

 

 

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. - Colin Powell

 

 

 

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. - Henry David Thoreau

 

 

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

 

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

 

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie

 

 

Life unexamined, is not worth living. - Democritus

 

 

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. - Blaise Pascal

 

 

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. - Jascha Heifetz

 

 

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. - Dale Carnegie

 

 

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. - Woodrow Wilson

 

 

He who is contented is rich. - Lao Tzu

 

 

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

 

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. - Charles Lindbergh

 

 

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie

 

 

 

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. - Mother Teresa

 

 

 

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

 

 

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. - George Eliot

 

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

 

 

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. - Erica Jong

 

 

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. - Epicurus

 

 

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

 

 

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self. - The Buddha

 

 

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank

 

 

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish Proverb

 

 

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

 

 

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

 

 

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. - Dick Gregory

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. - George W. Bush

 

 

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. - Richard M. Nixon

 

 

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. - Frank Herbert

 

 

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

 

 

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. - William Halsey

 

 

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

 

 

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

 

 

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. - Anwar Sadat

 

 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

 

 

 

Hate is never conquered by hate, Hate is only conquered by love. - The Buddha

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

 

 

 

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

 

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

 

 

No one is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus

 

 

 

This world belongs to the enthusiastic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. - Dale Carnegie

 

 

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. - English Proverb

 

 

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. - John Glenn

 

 

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulations upon anyone's achievement, or express sympathy in sorrow or disappointment. - Lyndon B. Johnson

 

 

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. - Anonymous

 

 

Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Life's too short to be anything... but happy. - Anonymous

 

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

 

 

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France

 

 

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. - Desmond Tutu

 

 

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -- and another, in case it doesn't rain. - Mae West

 

 

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

 

 

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap. - Steve Martin

 

 

I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very skeptical. - Arthur C Clarke

 

 

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. - William Shakespeare

 

 

If life were fair Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead. - Johnny Carson

 

 

Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million. - Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

 

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

 

 

 

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

 

 

Give me ambiguity or give me something else. - Unknown

 

 

 

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed; else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

 

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. - Winston Churchill

 

 

 

He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong

 

 

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. - Epictetus

 

 

The best things in life are free. - Anonymous

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of

 

 

 

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the

 

 

 

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. - Malayan Proverb

 

 

 

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

 

 

 

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward Heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

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

 

 

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up. - Jesse Jackson

 

 

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. - James Bu

 

 

 

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs

 

 

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. - Charles Schumer

 

 

He who spends time regretting the past, loses the present and risks the future. - Quevedo

 

 

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. - Christoph Waltz

 

 

 

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. - Samuel Butler

 

 

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

 

 

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Desmond Tutu

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F. Kennedy

 

 

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

 

 

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. - Gandhi

 

 

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus

 

 

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win. - Carl Lewis

 

 

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits. - Anonymous

 

 

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. - Bob Proctor

 

 

I came, I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar

 

 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

 

 

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. - The Buddha

 

 

 

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa

 

 

 

One-seventh of your life is spent on Mondays. - Unknown

 

 

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

 

 

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

Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

 

 

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. - Freeman Dyson

 

 

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them. - Steve Martin

 

 

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. - Lord Byron

 

 

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. - C.S. Lewis

 

 

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. - John Quincy Adams

 

 

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. - Jane Fonda

 

 

Acts of courage shape human history. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. - Robert F. Kennedy

 

 

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich

 

 

It is never too late to become what you might have been. - George Eliot

 

 

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. - Aeschylus

 

 

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Anonymous

 

 

When you change the way you listen, the things you hear change. - Unknown

 

 

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror. With a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

 

 

 

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. - Napoleon Hill

 

 

 

People spend their health for wealth ... then spend their wealth for health - Unknown

 

 

 

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. - Calvin Coolidge

 

 

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? - Jackie Kennedy

 

 

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus

 

 

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

 

 

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

Failure is impossible. - Susan B. Anthony

 

 

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. - Tony Blair

 

 

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

 

 

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

 

 

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

 

 

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

 

 

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. - Sophocles

 

 

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

 

 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

 

 

Ideas are like children - your own are wonderful. - Unkown

 

 

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

You are remembered for the rules you break. - Douglas MacArthur

 

 

Ten percent of something is better than 100% of nothing. - Unknown

 

 

When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, its time to change the people around you. - Annonymous

 

 

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides

 

 

I exercise strong self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. - WC Fields

 

 

When It’s Darkest, Men See the Stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

 

 

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides

 

 

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried. - Mae West

 

 

If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. - Unknown

 

 

The most damaging phrase in the language is: It's always been done that way. - Grace Hopper

 

 

Life doesn't make any sense and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway. - Eric Idle

 

 

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

 

 

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. - William J. Bennett

 

 

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. - Cher

 

 

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. - Anonymous

 

 

It’s true that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but it may be better than no alibi at all. - Unkown

 

 

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. - Bill Cosby

 

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

 

 

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. - Amelia Earhart

 

 

We receive this food in gratitude to all beings Who have helped to bring it to our table, And vow to respond in turn to those in need With wisdom and compassion. - Buddhist Blessing

 

 

For food that stays our hunger, For rest that brings us ease, For homes where memories linger, We give our thanks for these. - Anonymous

 

 

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - A. A. Milne

 

 

No one is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus

 

 

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. - Mark Twain

 

 

He who can give thanks for little will always find he has enough. - Anonymous

 

 

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. - Aldous Huxley

 

 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Unknown

 

 

There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. - George Eliot

 

 

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. - John Quincy Adams

 

 

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

 

 

Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them. - Unknown

 

 

Kids are like farts. You don’t mind your own, but other peoples are unbearable.

 

 

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. - Elbert Hubbard

 

 

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them

 

 

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. - Jean Kerr

 

 

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? - Ted Kennedy

 

 

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

 

 

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln

 

 

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. - Epictetus

 

 

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. - George Eliot

 

 

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you are afraid. - John Gotti

 

 

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. - Steven Wright

 

 

No one is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus

 

 

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. - Steve Jobs

 

 

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

 

 

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon

 

 

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X

 

 

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan

 

 

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill

 

 

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain

 

 

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. - Epicurus

 

 

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller

 

 

Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

 

 

If I won an award for laziness, I would probably just send someone out to pick it up for me.

 

 

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. - George Clooney

 

 

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. - Anonymous

 

 

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao Tzu

 

 

 

Throughout education, from the first day to the last, there should be a sense of intellectual adventure. - Bertrund Russell

 

 

Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains - because they’re there. - Stephen King

 

 

Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party! - Robin Williams

 

 

From the earth we were formed. To the earth we return. And in betwee, we garden. - Nelson Eddy

 

 

 

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

 

 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

 

 

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. - Maya Angelou

 

 

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

 

 

Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything - Unknown

 

 

 

Women...can't live with 'em...can't shoot 'em. - Steven Wright

 

 

 

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often. - Anonymous

 

 

 

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. - William Makepeace Thackeray

 

 

 

The difference in winning and losing is most often, not quitting. - Walt Disney

 

 

 

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. - Helen Keller

 

 

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

 

 

 

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

 

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. - Emily Dickinson

 

 

 

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

 

 

 

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - George Bernard Shaw

 

 

 

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver

 

 

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. - Epictetus

 

 

 

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

 

 

 

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. - Jewish Proverb

 

 

 

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honoré de Balzac

 

 

 

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. - Sir Winston Churchill

 

 

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Bernard M. Baruch

 

 

On a tombstone: I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!

 

 

Successful people are simply those with successful habits. - Brian Tracy

 

 

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

 

 

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

 

 

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

 

 

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

 

 

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right. - Henry Ford

 

 

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

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

 

 

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs

 

 

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. - C. S. Lewis

 

 

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway. - Mother Teresa

 

 

 

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. - G. H. Hardy

 

 

 

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child. - Abraham Lincoln (attributed)

 

 

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln

 

 

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Adams

 

 

Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Climbing is akin to love. It's hard to explain; we endure pain for the joy that comes with discovering ourselves and the planet. - Cory Richards

 

 

Don't sweat the small stuff... and it's all small stuff. - Richard Carlson

 

 

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

 

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

For food that stays our hunger, For rest that brings us ease, For homes where memories linger, We give our thanks for these. - Anonymous

 

 

In a world where so many are hungry, may we eat this food with humble hearts; in a world where so many are lonely, May we share this friendship with joyful hearts. - Anonymous

 

 

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Anonymous

 

 

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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

 

 

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Unknown

 

 

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. - George Eliot

 

 

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - Unknown

 

 

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

 

 

If black boxes survive air crashes why don’t they make the whole plane out of the stuff? - George Carlin

 

 

 

If black boxes survive air crashes why don’t they make the whole plane out of the stuff? - George Carlin

 

 

 

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. - Terry Pratchett

 

 

In a world where so many are hungry, may we eat this food with humble hearts; in a world where so many are lonely, May we share this friendship with joyful hearts. - Anonymous

 

 

The most adorable bride of today will be someone's mother-in-law in the future. - Annonymous

 

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, its time to change the people around you. - Annonymous

 

 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. - Amelia Earhart

 

 

We receive this food in gratitude to all beings Who have helped to bring it to our table, And vow to respond in turn to those in need With wisdom and compassion. - Buddhist Blessing

 

 

Act like a fool, be treated as one.

 

 

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer

 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

 

 

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

 

 

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

 

 

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. - Anonymous

 

 

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

 

 

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

 

 

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

 

 

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

 

 

Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

 

 

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong

 

 

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off. - LtG. Hal Moore

 

 

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. - Colin Powell

 

 

Don't try to manage people; You manage things; You lead people. - Grace Hopper

 

 

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. - Sophocles

 

 

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

 

 

All religions must be tolerated...for every man must get to heaven in his own way. - Epictetus

 

 

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

 

 

Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair, and you go so far that you almost fall over backwards, but at the last instant you catch yourself? That's how I feel all the time. - Steven Wright

 

 

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulations upon anyone's achievement, or express sympathy in sorrow or disappointment. - Lyndon B. Johnson

 

 

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness - Seneca

 

 

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

 

 

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. - Charles L. Allen

 

 

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. - Elbert Hubbard

 

 

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how to respond to them. - Epictetus

 

 

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. - George Clooney

 

 

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

 

 

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides

 

 

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

Diversity of worship has divided the human race into seventy-two nations. From among all their dogmas, I have selected one, Divine Love. - Omar Khayyam

 

 

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb

 

 

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. - Epictetus

 

 

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

 

 

If I can't have what I want, let me want what I have.

 

 

I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

 

Good works are links that form a chain of love. - Mother Teresa

 

 

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. - James Joyce

 

 

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

 

 

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus

 

 

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost

 

 

Do you dream in colour? Or is that just a pigment of your imagination?

 

 

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

 

 

Apparently, "vegetarian" is an old Indian word for "bad hunter."

 

 

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

 

 

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill

 

 

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. - G. Gordon Liddy

 

 

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - Ronald Reagan

 

 

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

 

 

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! - P. J. O'Rourke

 

 

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. - John Herschel

 

 

In a restaurant: "Open seven days a week and weekends."

 

 

A poster on a bulletin board: "Are you an adult who cannot read? If so, we can help."

 

 

At an optometrist's office: "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."

 

 

Always buy good shoes and a good bed because if you aren't in one, you're in the other.

 

 

At a car dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet - miss a payment."

 

 

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

 

Reality is a product of our dreams, decisions and actions. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That makes you a winner right there. - Venus Williams

 

 

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

Outside a muffler shop: "No appointment necessary. We can hear you coming."

 

 

I know there is a God and I know He hates injustice. I see the storm coming and I know His hand is in it. But if He has a place and a part for me, I believe I am ready. - Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. - Zig Ziglar

 

 

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

 

 

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. - Sylvester Stallone

 

 

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

 

 

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. - Russell Baker

 

 

Sorry, I’m allergic to bullshit. - Will Smith

 

 

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. - James Allen

 

 

Where love is, there God is also. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER".- William S. Burroughs

 

 

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer

 

 

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

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

 

 

I love to give homemade gifts. Which one of my kids do you want?

 

 

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. - Publilius Syrus

 

 

Hatred is an acid that corrodes its container. - Tonya Baker

 

 

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. - Arthur Koestler

 

 

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W. C. Fields

 

 

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese proverb

 

 

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

 

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

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

 

 

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. - Michael Jordan

 

 

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. - William Shakepeare

 

 

Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' - Muhammad Ali

 

 

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

 

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

 

 

If you live in my heart, you live rent free.

 

 

True friends face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. - C. S. Lewis

 

 

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. - Woody Allen

 

 

There's an old saying, 'Neurotics build castles in the air and psychotics live in them.' My mother cleans them. - Rita Rudner

 

 

There are three things I never want to hear again on a first date, 'So...how much cash do you have on you?' 'Wow! You're a big girl!' and 'Wanna hold my gun? It's loaded.' - Jennifer Fairbanks

 

 

I had general anesthesia for my surgery. It's so weird. You go to sleep in one room and then wake up four hours later in a totally different room. Just like in college. - Ross Shafer

 

 

Money talks. Mine says "I'm leaving."

 

 

I take music pretty seriously. This scar on my wrist, do you know what that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. - Dennis Leary

 

 

The least thing upsets him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows. - PG Wodehouse

 

 

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

 

 

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

 

 

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

Marriage: is finding that one special person you can annoy the rest of your life.

 

 

Sex is like going to the gas station. Sometimes you get full service, and sometimes you have to go to self-serve.

When you put the 2 words "The" and "IRS" together it spells "THEIRS".

When you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.

If the Government can pay farmers not to raise crops, why can't we pay the Government not to raise taxes?

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.- Mark Twain

Can you cry under water?

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

I diet religiously: I eat what I want and pray I don't gain weight

I once gave a waiter a tip - I told him never to step off a moving bus. - Groucho Marx

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damned good. - Drew Carey

How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

Sometimes, you wonder if people think with their asses. Sometimes, you know.

Mine Shaft: What a German calls his dick.

Believe it or not, every fool you meet is the end result of millions of years of evolution.

I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still working.- Lord Birkett

A question for the ladies: 'If women are so perfect at multitasking, how come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time?'

If you have sex with a prostitute against her will, is it considered rape or shoplifting?

Two thousand pounds of human hair fell off a passing truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and blocked the roadway today. State Police are still combing the area.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire

The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.

Sex is a two-way treat. - Franklin P. Jones

There are two types of people; those who cannot make money and those who cannot keep it.

I have this nagging fear that everyone is out to make me paranoid.

It's a good thing beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core. - Phyllis Diller

Don't be irreplaceable: if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

A sharp dagger only wounds the flash, but a sharp tongue can wound the spirit.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope

Life is a near-death experience. - George Carlin

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. - Charles Dickens

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. - Lao Tzu

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. - Eric Hoffer

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. - William Somerset Maugham

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

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. - The Buddha

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? - Mahatma Gandhi

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken. - Lao Tzu

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

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. - Juvenal (Roman Poet)

It’s not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. - Somerset Maugham

One who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. - Mahatma Gandhi

This is like deja vu all over again. - Yogi Berra

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

ANGER is but one letter short of DANGER.

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson

I smile because I don't know what the heck is going on.

What's another word for Thesaurus? - Steven Wright

I don’t want to be your whole life ... just your favorite part. - Unknown

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

Is there anything sweeter than hanging out with your dog and getting to do all the talking?

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

If you left me without a reason, don't come back with an excuse.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - The Buddha

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus

I bought a dog the other day...I named him Stay. It's fun to call him..."Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing. - Steven Wright

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through. - Traditional

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. - Steven Wright

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand. - Irish Blessing

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei

May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home. May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam. May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures. May all life's passing seasons bring the best to you and

I know that you're nobody's fool, but maybe someone will adopt you.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. - George Burns

May God grant you always...A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to you. Faithful friends near you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you. - Irish Blessing

A life lived in fear is a life half lived. - Anonymous

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

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would be different. - Katherine Mansfield

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Lily Tomlin

Had the Mayans been any good at predicting the end of the world they would have seen the Spanish coming.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. - Bertrand Russell

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. - George Bernard Shaw

What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus

If today was perfect there would be no need for tomorrow.

I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president. And anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson, 1925 - 2005

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. - Mignon McLaughlin