Quote of the Day
Нет ничего плохого в том, что люди учатся на собственных ошибках.
Это лучше, чем совсем не учиться.
Но я предпочитаю учиться на ошибках других.
Это намного быстрее и проще.
Наверное поэтому я так люблю собирать цитаты.
People who know often don't say. People who say often don't know. ~ Nancy Sinatra
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. ~ Frank Sinatra
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. ~ Albert Einstein
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~ Aldous Huxley
Strategic incompetence isn’t about having a strategy that fails, but a failure that succeeds. It almost always works to deflect work one doesn’t want to do - without ever having to admit it. ~ Jared Sandberg, Wall Street Journal
Everything in business is negotiable. If you don't ask, you don't get.
A pessimist is really an optimist with experience.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people ~ Eleanor Roosevelt.
Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Try to remember when life was so tender.
That no one wept except the willow.
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. ~ Knute Rockne
You create your opportunities by asking for them. ~ Patty Hansen
Energy and persistence alter all things. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. ~ Paul Fix
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ~ George Steiner
Most people would rather die than think: many do. ~ Bertrand Russell
Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? ~ Maurice Mascaranhas
Patience, money and time bring all things to past. ~ Proverb
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ~ Josh Billings
Art is a form of catharsis. ~ Dorothy Parker
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. ~ Earl Nightingale
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? ~ Marquis De Custine
Those who easily forgive invite offenses. ~ Pierre Corneille
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. ~ Wesley from The Princess Bride (1987)
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. ~ Mark Twain
Without discipline, there is no life at all. ~ Katharine Hepburn
Familiarity breeds contempt. ~ Publilius Syrus
There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening. ~ American Proverb
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ~ George Orwell
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde
True greatness consists in being great in little things. ~ Charles Simmons
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ~ Albert Schweitzer
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. ~ St. Jerome
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ~ Abraham Lincoln
The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary. ~ May V. Smith
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ~ Milton Berle
Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~ Anthony Powell
Success doesn't come to you you go to it. ~ Marva Collins
Those who know how to think need no teachers. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. ~ Mohammed
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ~ Meg Greenfield
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ~ Igor Stravinsky
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~ Joseph Joubert
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep. ~ Gregory Dean Jr.
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ~ Robert Neville
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ~ Wernher Von Braun
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee
The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ~ Walter Chrysler
A person hears only what they understand. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My only hope lies in my despair. ~ Jean Racine
When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something. ~ Doug Horton
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~ Zen Saying
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ~ Anthony Burgess
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ~ Harold S. Geneen
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. ~ John F. Kennedy
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~ Indian Proverb
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior. ~ George Sheehan
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ~ Robert Browning
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. ~ Norman Mailer
It takes time to save time. ~ Joe Taylor
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. ~ Persian Proverb
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. ~ Thomas Traherne
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ~ Larry Adler
I do not live in the world of sobriety. ~ Oliver Reed
I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. ~ Connie Chung
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. ~ David Starr Jordan
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. ~ Roger Staubach
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ~
William James
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ~ John Pierpont Morgan
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~ Walter Elliott
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ~ Abigail Van Buren
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. ~ Doug Horton
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. ~ Denis Waitley
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. ~ Thomas Fuller
A man must earnestly want. ~ William Frederick Book
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted. ~ Aesop
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~ John Barrymore
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. ~ Richard M. DeVos
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ~ Tom Stoppard
The high note is not the only thing. ~ Placido Domingo
I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Never complain and never explain. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ~ Michael O'Brien
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. ~ Elias Canetti
No violent extreme endures. ~ Thomas Carlyle
First deserve then desire. ~ Proverb
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions. ~ Gregory Nunn
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave. ~ Cato The Elder
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey. ~ William A. Ward
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ~ Carl Jung
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. ~ Jean Baptiste Masillon
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the dream of a waking man. ~ Aristotle
It is easier to believe than to doubt. ~ Everett D. Martin
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... ~ Robert Collier
A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you. ~ Ramsey Clark
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ignorance is like the itch - the less you have of it the better off you are. ~
Harry Mendelson
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Better be quarrelling than lonesome. ~ Irish Proverb
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ~ Jerry Della Femina
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic. ~ Muriel Spark
The game isn't over until it's over. ~ Yogi Berra
If you laid ever economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion. ~ Salvador Nasello
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously. ~ Barbara Hershey
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. ~ Arthur Ashe
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. ~ Albert Einstein
There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free. ~
The Siri Singh Sahib
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. ~ Marya Mannes
Oh, what a void there is in things. ~ Persius
My only wish is that my wishes be at rest. ~ Ruckett
Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast. ~ Lewis Carroll
The world is in your hands, now use it. ~ Phil Collins
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend. ~ Dear Prudence
Fate, being fate, cannot be meddled with. ~ Dear Prudence
No one should be the prisoner of people with no judgment-even if they are relatives. ~ Dear Prudence
I didn't amount to anything because I didn't want to disappoint my folks. ~ Dear Prudence
It was a great party-if you've never been to a party before. ~ Truman Capote
If you find yourself making accommodations, that does not make you a hotel. ~ Roger Rosenblatt
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. ~ Al Capone
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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. ~ Virginia Wade
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. ~ Pat Riley
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. ~ Wayne Dyer
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. ~ Nelson Algren
Discipline is not a nasty word. ~ Pat Riley
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. ~ George Bernard Shaw
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. ~ Socrates
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ~ Robert Collier
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instinct is untaught ability. ~ Alexander Bain
If it's not growing, it's going to die. ~ Michael Eisner
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. ~ Orison Swett Marden
Every advantage has its tax. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die. ~ Stan Dale
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. ~ Francis Bacon
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. ~ Cher
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much. ~ John Dryden
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. ~
Stephen R. Covey
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ~ Muhammad Ali
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. ~ Sir Nathan Rothschild
When ambition ends, happiness begins. ~ Hungarian Proverb
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
There is no sinner like a young saint. ~ Aphra Behn
It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. ~ Albert Einstein
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ~ Edmund Burke
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. ~ Lady Nancy Astor
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ~ John D. Rockefeller
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. ~
Fredrich
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~ Brendan Francis
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ~ William Londen
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~ William Penn
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers. ~ Proverb
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. ~ Jean Rostand
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~
Roy L. Smith
Never read any book that is not a year old. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them. ~ Robert J. Ringer
Perfection is the child of time. ~ Joseph Hall
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~ W. B. Prescott
Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. ~ Seneca
Having sex with her is like doing taxes, Happens once a year and I usually end up paying. ~ Texts From Last Night
My life is a requiem composed in the key of fuck. ~ Texts From Last Night
Can’t you just take shittier pictures for a discount? ~ Clients From Hell
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. ~ Elbert Hubbard
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. ~ Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Inside every man there is a poet who died young. ~ Stephan Kanfer
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Courage is grace under pressure. ~ Ernest Hemingway
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. ~ William Shakespeare
She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words. ~ Corey Ford
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ~ Eric Hoffer
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. ~ Brian Tracy
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else. ~ Sammy Davis Jr.
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? ~ Ray Kroc
You can't know too much, but you can say too much. ~ Calvin Coolidge
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~ Havelock Ellis
Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. ~ Frank Burford
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ~ John Wooden
The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them. ~ Bob Harrington
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ~ Joey Lauren Adams
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects. ~ Will Rogers
You are only what you are when no one is looking. ~ Robert C. Edwards
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ~ Sir Cecil Beaton
Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go. ~ Epitaph
The only completely consistent people are the dead. ~ Aldous Huxley
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. ~ Queen Maria
Amateurs hope, professionals work. ~ Garson Kanin
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. ~ Ben Hecht
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Religion is the opium of the masses. ~ Karl Marx
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. ~ Sir Peter Medawar
Don't just count your years, make your years count. ~ Ernest Meyers
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ~ Jacques Delille
Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor. ~ Francis Bacon
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. ~ Tryon Edwards
Be sincere, be brief; be seated. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. ~ Dale Carnegie
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. ~ H. T. Leslie
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. ~ John Wesley
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~ George Orwell
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~ Franklin P. Jones
Books and marriage go ill together. ~ Moliere
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ~ Edward Gibbon
Talent works, genius creates. ~ Robert Schumann
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. ~ Albert Einstein
Life without a friend is death without a witness. ~ Spanish Proverb
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~ George Santayana
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. ~ Seneca
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ~ Bertolt Brecht
There is a crack in everything God has made. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. ~ H. L. Mencken
They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. ~ L. Schefer
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ~ George Eliot
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. ~ Doug Horton
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. ~ Henry James
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~ Albert Einstein
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. ~ Francis Bacon
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ~ Elder Pliny
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others. ~ Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ~ Jack London
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. ~ St. John Chrysosatom
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. ~ Samuel Butler
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ~ Alexander Woollcott
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ~ Cesare Pavese
Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. ~ John Charles Salak
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. ~ Richard L. Evans
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way. ~ French Proverb
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host. ~
Gabriel Heatter
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists. ~ William Salter
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ~ Rudyard Kipling
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. ~ Sydney Smith
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ~ William Wrigley Jr.
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble. ~ Mark Twain
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ~ Eric Hoffer
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. ~ Sir James M. Barrie
Instinct is the nose of the mind. ~ Madame de Girardin
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you. ~ Anthony Robbins
Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in. ~ Ronald Reagan
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. ~ Thomas Robert Dewar
The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. ~ James Russell Lowell
Character is power. ~ Booker T. Washington
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ~ Mae West
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself. ~ Richard M. Nixon
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. ~ Thaddeus Golas
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. ~ Proverb
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ~ Germain G. Glien
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. ~ Eileen Caddy
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. ~ Ray Prince
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. ~ Peter F. Drucker
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. ~ French Proverb
The gods sell all things at a fair price. ~ Proverb
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ~ George Eliot
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ~ French Proverb
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead! ~ Fannie Flagg
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Good is not good, when better is expected. ~ Thomas Fuller
Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you. ~ Soupy Sales
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. ~ Arabian Proverb
If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. ~ Dr. Robert Anthony
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself. ~ Peter The Great
America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing. ~ Will Rogers
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. ~ Robert Frost
Photography is not art goddamnet! It’s just a Xerox of what just happened. ~ Clients From Hell
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority... ~ Orison Swett Marden
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you. ~ Billy Wilder
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong
Manana is often the busiest day of the week. ~ Spanish Proverb
To boldly go where no man has gone before. ~ Star Trek
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. ~ Denis Waitley
From small beginnings come great things. ~ American Proverb
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. ~ Ann Landers
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. ~ Studs Terkel
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. ~ Anne Frank
Error is discipline through which we advance. ~ William Ellery Channing
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ~ Plutarch
Death rather than disgrace. ~ Motto
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself. ~ Seneca
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The people are to be taken in small doses. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~ Jewish Proverb
If you aren’t rich you should always look useful. ~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Let nothing come between you and the light. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is a positive cash flow. ~ Fred Adler
Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ~ Dame Margot Fonteyn
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. ~ Pat Riley
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. ~ Ken Blanchard
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one. ~ Helen Rowland
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. ~ Robert Half
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best. ~ James H. Robinson,
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. ~ Ibo Proverb
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. ~ Sharon Anthony Bower
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. ~ Gertrude Stein
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed. ~ Peter F. Drucker
Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. ~ Plutarch
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech. ~ Dan Kennedy
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ~ Thomas Dunn English
There is no wisdom like frankness. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ~ Clarence Darrow
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~ John Adams
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ~ Eric Hoffer
If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself. ~ Blaise Pascal
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. ~ Jim Rohn
Love the giver more than the gift. ~ Brigham Young
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ~ Roberta Flack
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~ John Ruskin
Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt. ~ Albert Guerard
Well done, is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~ Susan B. Anthony
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ~ Lord Chesterfield
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ~ Margaret Thatcher
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. ~ Carter Glass
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. ~ Philip Wylie
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. ~ George Ebers
No good deed goes unpunished. ~ Clare Boothe Luce,
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase. ~ Dottie Walters
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. ~ Mark Twain
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. ~ Denis Waitley
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. ~ Fred A. Allen,
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. ~ William Shakespeare
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ~ William Hazlitt
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. ~ Thomas A. Dorgan
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~ Oscar Wilde,
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. ~ Utterly Russell
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. ~ Arthur Bloch
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. ~ William Henry
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore. ~ Edward Dahlberg
Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. ~ Dr. Henker
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. ~ Jill Bennett
If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. ~ Bowen Baxter
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. ~ Thomas L. Masson
"I never write anything down. I figure if it's good enough, I'll remember it." ~ Buck Owens
We should treat a dress code as a high jump instead, and attempt to clear the bar with panache. We are men, not sheep. ~ Nick Sullivan, Esquire
Animal Quotes
Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened ~ Anatole France
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person ~ Andy Rooney
Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. ~ Franklin P. Jones
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, And very, very few persons. ~ James Thurber
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.
My Goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. ~ Sigmund Freud
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~ Roger Caras
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~ Ben Williams
Dog: I'm allergic to the fact that cats know more about me than I know about myself. ~ Gillian Anderson
Love Quotes
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love. ~ Heinrich Heine
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another. ~ George MacDonald
As in the whole world thou canst find.
That heart I'll give to thee. ~ Robert Herrick
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love.
Love is everything. It is the key of life, and its influences are those that move the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love brings a new richness to life, a higher intensity, a deeper meaning.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle. ~ George Herbert
Love is love's reward. ~ John Dryden
Love carries a burden which is no burden. ~ Thomas A Kempis
I wish you long life and happiness - for your long life will be my happiness.
What we love we shall grow to resemble ~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Love is never afraid of giving too much.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them whey they have forgotten.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo
How great is God's goodness to have given you to me to love for a lidetime.
When two people fall in love, their lives become so full with all that they share - it seems as if nothing before could have ever been so complete.
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. ~ Thomas Codrington
When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be. ~ Leo Tolstoy
We loved with a love that was more than love -
A love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Love is a cozy shelter from life's rainy days.
Love comforteth like a sunshine after rain. ~ William Shakespeare
It makes you stronger, so that you can reach out and become involved with life in ways you dared not risk alone.
With each day, love brings new hope and enthusiasm for every shared tomorrow.
Joy is love exalted;
peace is love in repose;
long-suffering is love enduring;
gentleness is love in society;
goodness is love in action;
faith is love on the battlefield;
meekness is love in school;
and temperance is love in training. ~ Dwight L. Moody
'Tis love alone can hearts unlock:
Who knows the word, he need not knock. ~ Richard Crashaw
I will always want you in my life,
I will always keep you in my heart,
I will always need you by my side.
Love is most divine wen it loves according to needs and not according to merit. ~ George MacDonald
Thou art of my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me:
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee. ~ Robert Herrick
To love someone is to look into the face of God. ~ Victor Hugo
Love - thoughts of tenderness, tried in temptation, strengthened by distress, unmoved by absence, and yet, more than all, untired by time. ~ Lord Byron
I wish I could tell you the day, the hour, the minute my love for you became real. I only know it seems I've loved you forever.
We see those we love in every sunrise and in every sunset, in every tree and in every flower.
I have a garden of my own,
Shining with flowers of every hue;
I loved it dearly while alone,
But I shall love it more with you. ~ Sir Thomas More
To love someone is a beautiful necessity of living in this world.
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave,
But not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather. ~ Dean Edward Bannerman Ramsey
Any time that is not spent on love is wasted. ~ Torquato Tasso
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there's plenty of room on both ends.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love can hope where reason would despair. ~ Lord Lyttelton
At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato
Thinking of you always leads to a wonderful feeling of warmth, love, and pride.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seekeing, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ~ Corithians 13:4-5
Love requires sharing,
Sharing requires struggle,
Struggle requires faith,
Faith requires love.
In a kiss, two spirits meet, mingle, and become one. ~ Ailred of Rievalx
Love seems so mysterious, so magical, yet when it happens, there is nothing that could be more natural or right.
Love doesn't try to see through the loved one, but to see the loved one through.
Love is the only spiritual power that can overcome the self-centeredness that is inherent in being alive. ~ Arnold Toynbee
Love has never known a law
Beyond its own sweet will. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
To see her is to love her,
And love but her for ever,
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made another! ~ Robert Burns
Your love helps me get over the rough spots in life.
Love does not allow the lover to belong anymore to himself, but he belongs only to the Beloved. ~ Dionysius
Love and a cough cannot be hid. ~ George Hebbert
Love is a fabric that never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the waters of adversity and grief.
The rewards of love are always greater that its cost.
You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. ~ John Keats
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
May God give you eyes to see beauty only the heart can see.
A successful relationship comes not so much from finding the right partner, but rather from being the right partner and demonstrating love, faith, hope, and forgiveness.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. - Elbert Hubbard
He is not a love who does not love forever. ~ Euripides
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ~ P.J. Bailey
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy. ~ William Wordsworth
There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The most precious gifts are wrapped in love.
Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. ~ Barbara De Angelis
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. ~ Alexis Delp
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. ~ William Shakespeare
Sister Quotes
In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend. ~ Catherine Killigrew
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. ~ Toni Morrison
What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it? ~ Jenny DeVries
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. ~ Katherine Mansfield
There is no better friend than a sister. And there is no better sister than you.
Sisters share the scent and smells - the feel of a common childhood. ~ Pam Brown
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~ Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. ~ Betsy Cohen
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. ~ Deborah Moggach
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own. ~ Pam Brown
For there is not friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather. ~ Christina Rossetti
Sisters
Keep each others secrets
Bear each others burdens
Nudge each others laughter and
Hold on tightly to each others love
Sisters - Out lives have been brought together for a reason, and for that I am grateful. We have shared joy and sorrow, and hugs along the way. The bond we have is everlasting.
Friendship Quotes
Your friendship has filled my life with love, joy and laughter
Friends - You are always there with a hug when I need it, and the right words to let met know that you understand. Thank you for the joy you have brought to my life, and being my friend.
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Но я предпочитаю учиться на ошибках других.
Это намного быстрее и проще.
Наверное поэтому я так люблю собирать цитаты.
People who know often don't say. People who say often don't know. ~ Nancy Sinatra
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. ~ Frank Sinatra
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. ~ Albert Einstein
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~ Aldous Huxley
Strategic incompetence isn’t about having a strategy that fails, but a failure that succeeds. It almost always works to deflect work one doesn’t want to do - without ever having to admit it. ~ Jared Sandberg, Wall Street Journal
Everything in business is negotiable. If you don't ask, you don't get.
A pessimist is really an optimist with experience.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people ~ Eleanor Roosevelt.
Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Try to remember when life was so tender.
That no one wept except the willow.
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. ~ Knute Rockne
You create your opportunities by asking for them. ~ Patty Hansen
Energy and persistence alter all things. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. ~ Paul Fix
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ~ George Steiner
Most people would rather die than think: many do. ~ Bertrand Russell
Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? ~ Maurice Mascaranhas
Patience, money and time bring all things to past. ~ Proverb
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ~ Josh Billings
Art is a form of catharsis. ~ Dorothy Parker
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. ~ Earl Nightingale
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? ~ Marquis De Custine
Those who easily forgive invite offenses. ~ Pierre Corneille
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. ~ Wesley from The Princess Bride (1987)
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. ~ Mark Twain
Without discipline, there is no life at all. ~ Katharine Hepburn
Familiarity breeds contempt. ~ Publilius Syrus
There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening. ~ American Proverb
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ~ George Orwell
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde
True greatness consists in being great in little things. ~ Charles Simmons
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ~ Albert Schweitzer
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. ~ St. Jerome
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ~ Abraham Lincoln
The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary. ~ May V. Smith
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ~ Milton Berle
Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~ Anthony Powell
Success doesn't come to you you go to it. ~ Marva Collins
Those who know how to think need no teachers. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. ~ Mohammed
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ~ Meg Greenfield
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ~ Igor Stravinsky
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~ Joseph Joubert
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep. ~ Gregory Dean Jr.
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ~ Robert Neville
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ~ Wernher Von Braun
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee
The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ~ Walter Chrysler
A person hears only what they understand. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My only hope lies in my despair. ~ Jean Racine
When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something. ~ Doug Horton
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~ Zen Saying
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ~ Anthony Burgess
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ~ Harold S. Geneen
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. ~ John F. Kennedy
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~ Indian Proverb
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior. ~ George Sheehan
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ~ Robert Browning
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. ~ Norman Mailer
It takes time to save time. ~ Joe Taylor
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. ~ Persian Proverb
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. ~ Thomas Traherne
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ~ Larry Adler
I do not live in the world of sobriety. ~ Oliver Reed
I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. ~ Connie Chung
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. ~ David Starr Jordan
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. ~ Roger Staubach
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ~
William James
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ~ John Pierpont Morgan
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~ Walter Elliott
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ~ Abigail Van Buren
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. ~ Doug Horton
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. ~ Denis Waitley
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. ~ Thomas Fuller
A man must earnestly want. ~ William Frederick Book
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted. ~ Aesop
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~ John Barrymore
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. ~ Richard M. DeVos
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ~ Tom Stoppard
The high note is not the only thing. ~ Placido Domingo
I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Never complain and never explain. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ~ Michael O'Brien
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. ~ Elias Canetti
No violent extreme endures. ~ Thomas Carlyle
First deserve then desire. ~ Proverb
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions. ~ Gregory Nunn
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave. ~ Cato The Elder
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey. ~ William A. Ward
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ~ Carl Jung
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. ~ Jean Baptiste Masillon
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the dream of a waking man. ~ Aristotle
It is easier to believe than to doubt. ~ Everett D. Martin
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... ~ Robert Collier
A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you. ~ Ramsey Clark
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ignorance is like the itch - the less you have of it the better off you are. ~
Harry Mendelson
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Better be quarrelling than lonesome. ~ Irish Proverb
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ~ Jerry Della Femina
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic. ~ Muriel Spark
The game isn't over until it's over. ~ Yogi Berra
If you laid ever economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion. ~ Salvador Nasello
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously. ~ Barbara Hershey
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. ~ Arthur Ashe
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. ~ Albert Einstein
There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free. ~
The Siri Singh Sahib
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. ~ Marya Mannes
Oh, what a void there is in things. ~ Persius
My only wish is that my wishes be at rest. ~ Ruckett
Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast. ~ Lewis Carroll
The world is in your hands, now use it. ~ Phil Collins
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend. ~ Dear Prudence
Fate, being fate, cannot be meddled with. ~ Dear Prudence
No one should be the prisoner of people with no judgment-even if they are relatives. ~ Dear Prudence
I didn't amount to anything because I didn't want to disappoint my folks. ~ Dear Prudence
It was a great party-if you've never been to a party before. ~ Truman Capote
If you find yourself making accommodations, that does not make you a hotel. ~ Roger Rosenblatt
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. ~ Al Capone
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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. ~ Virginia Wade
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. ~ Pat Riley
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. ~ Wayne Dyer
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. ~ Nelson Algren
Discipline is not a nasty word. ~ Pat Riley
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. ~ George Bernard Shaw
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. ~ Socrates
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ~ Robert Collier
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instinct is untaught ability. ~ Alexander Bain
If it's not growing, it's going to die. ~ Michael Eisner
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. ~ Orison Swett Marden
Every advantage has its tax. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die. ~ Stan Dale
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. ~ Francis Bacon
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. ~ Cher
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much. ~ John Dryden
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. ~
Stephen R. Covey
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ~ Muhammad Ali
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. ~ Sir Nathan Rothschild
When ambition ends, happiness begins. ~ Hungarian Proverb
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
There is no sinner like a young saint. ~ Aphra Behn
It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. ~ Albert Einstein
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ~ Edmund Burke
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. ~ Lady Nancy Astor
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ~ John D. Rockefeller
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. ~
Fredrich
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~ Brendan Francis
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ~ William Londen
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~ William Penn
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers. ~ Proverb
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. ~ Jean Rostand
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~
Roy L. Smith
Never read any book that is not a year old. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them. ~ Robert J. Ringer
Perfection is the child of time. ~ Joseph Hall
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~ W. B. Prescott
Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. ~ Seneca
Having sex with her is like doing taxes, Happens once a year and I usually end up paying. ~ Texts From Last Night
My life is a requiem composed in the key of fuck. ~ Texts From Last Night
Can’t you just take shittier pictures for a discount? ~ Clients From Hell
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. ~ Elbert Hubbard
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. ~ Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Inside every man there is a poet who died young. ~ Stephan Kanfer
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Courage is grace under pressure. ~ Ernest Hemingway
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. ~ William Shakespeare
She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words. ~ Corey Ford
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ~ Eric Hoffer
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. ~ Brian Tracy
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else. ~ Sammy Davis Jr.
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? ~ Ray Kroc
You can't know too much, but you can say too much. ~ Calvin Coolidge
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~ Havelock Ellis
Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. ~ Frank Burford
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ~ John Wooden
The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them. ~ Bob Harrington
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ~ Joey Lauren Adams
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects. ~ Will Rogers
You are only what you are when no one is looking. ~ Robert C. Edwards
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ~ Sir Cecil Beaton
Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go. ~ Epitaph
The only completely consistent people are the dead. ~ Aldous Huxley
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. ~ Queen Maria
Amateurs hope, professionals work. ~ Garson Kanin
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. ~ Ben Hecht
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Religion is the opium of the masses. ~ Karl Marx
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. ~ Sir Peter Medawar
Don't just count your years, make your years count. ~ Ernest Meyers
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ~ Jacques Delille
Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor. ~ Francis Bacon
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. ~ Tryon Edwards
Be sincere, be brief; be seated. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. ~ Dale Carnegie
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. ~ H. T. Leslie
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. ~ John Wesley
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~ George Orwell
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~ Franklin P. Jones
Books and marriage go ill together. ~ Moliere
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ~ Edward Gibbon
Talent works, genius creates. ~ Robert Schumann
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. ~ Albert Einstein
Life without a friend is death without a witness. ~ Spanish Proverb
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~ George Santayana
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. ~ Seneca
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ~ Bertolt Brecht
There is a crack in everything God has made. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. ~ H. L. Mencken
They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. ~ L. Schefer
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ~ George Eliot
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. ~ Doug Horton
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. ~ Henry James
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~ Albert Einstein
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. ~ Francis Bacon
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ~ Elder Pliny
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others. ~ Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ~ Jack London
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. ~ St. John Chrysosatom
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. ~ Samuel Butler
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ~ Alexander Woollcott
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ~ Cesare Pavese
Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. ~ John Charles Salak
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. ~ Richard L. Evans
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way. ~ French Proverb
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host. ~
Gabriel Heatter
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists. ~ William Salter
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ~ Rudyard Kipling
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. ~ Sydney Smith
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ~ William Wrigley Jr.
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble. ~ Mark Twain
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ~ Eric Hoffer
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. ~ Sir James M. Barrie
Instinct is the nose of the mind. ~ Madame de Girardin
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you. ~ Anthony Robbins
Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in. ~ Ronald Reagan
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. ~ Thomas Robert Dewar
The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. ~ James Russell Lowell
Character is power. ~ Booker T. Washington
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ~ Mae West
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself. ~ Richard M. Nixon
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. ~ Thaddeus Golas
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. ~ Proverb
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ~ Germain G. Glien
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. ~ Eileen Caddy
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. ~ Ray Prince
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. ~ Peter F. Drucker
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. ~ French Proverb
The gods sell all things at a fair price. ~ Proverb
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ~ George Eliot
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ~ French Proverb
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead! ~ Fannie Flagg
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Good is not good, when better is expected. ~ Thomas Fuller
Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you. ~ Soupy Sales
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. ~ Arabian Proverb
If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. ~ Dr. Robert Anthony
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself. ~ Peter The Great
America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing. ~ Will Rogers
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. ~ Robert Frost
Photography is not art goddamnet! It’s just a Xerox of what just happened. ~ Clients From Hell
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority... ~ Orison Swett Marden
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you. ~ Billy Wilder
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong
Manana is often the busiest day of the week. ~ Spanish Proverb
To boldly go where no man has gone before. ~ Star Trek
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. ~ Denis Waitley
From small beginnings come great things. ~ American Proverb
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. ~ Ann Landers
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. ~ Studs Terkel
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. ~ Anne Frank
Error is discipline through which we advance. ~ William Ellery Channing
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ~ Plutarch
Death rather than disgrace. ~ Motto
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself. ~ Seneca
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The people are to be taken in small doses. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~ Jewish Proverb
If you aren’t rich you should always look useful. ~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Let nothing come between you and the light. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is a positive cash flow. ~ Fred Adler
Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ~ Dame Margot Fonteyn
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. ~ Pat Riley
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. ~ Ken Blanchard
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one. ~ Helen Rowland
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. ~ Robert Half
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best. ~ James H. Robinson,
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. ~ Ibo Proverb
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. ~ Sharon Anthony Bower
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. ~ Gertrude Stein
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed. ~ Peter F. Drucker
Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. ~ Plutarch
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech. ~ Dan Kennedy
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ~ Thomas Dunn English
There is no wisdom like frankness. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ~ Clarence Darrow
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~ John Adams
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ~ Eric Hoffer
If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself. ~ Blaise Pascal
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. ~ Jim Rohn
Love the giver more than the gift. ~ Brigham Young
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ~ Roberta Flack
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~ John Ruskin
Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt. ~ Albert Guerard
Well done, is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~ Susan B. Anthony
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ~ Lord Chesterfield
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ~ Margaret Thatcher
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. ~ Carter Glass
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. ~ Philip Wylie
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. ~ George Ebers
No good deed goes unpunished. ~ Clare Boothe Luce,
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase. ~ Dottie Walters
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. ~ Mark Twain
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. ~ Denis Waitley
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. ~ Fred A. Allen,
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. ~ William Shakespeare
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ~ William Hazlitt
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. ~ Thomas A. Dorgan
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~ Oscar Wilde,
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. ~ Utterly Russell
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. ~ Arthur Bloch
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. ~ William Henry
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore. ~ Edward Dahlberg
Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. ~ Dr. Henker
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. ~ Jill Bennett
If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. ~ Bowen Baxter
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. ~ Thomas L. Masson
"I never write anything down. I figure if it's good enough, I'll remember it." ~ Buck Owens
We should treat a dress code as a high jump instead, and attempt to clear the bar with panache. We are men, not sheep. ~ Nick Sullivan, Esquire
Animal Quotes
Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened ~ Anatole France
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person ~ Andy Rooney
Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. ~ Franklin P. Jones
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, And very, very few persons. ~ James Thurber
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.
My Goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. ~ Sigmund Freud
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~ Roger Caras
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~ Ben Williams
Dog: I'm allergic to the fact that cats know more about me than I know about myself. ~ Gillian Anderson
Love Quotes
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love. ~ Heinrich Heine
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another. ~ George MacDonald
As in the whole world thou canst find.
That heart I'll give to thee. ~ Robert Herrick
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love.
Love is everything. It is the key of life, and its influences are those that move the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love brings a new richness to life, a higher intensity, a deeper meaning.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle. ~ George Herbert
Love is love's reward. ~ John Dryden
Love carries a burden which is no burden. ~ Thomas A Kempis
I wish you long life and happiness - for your long life will be my happiness.
What we love we shall grow to resemble ~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Love is never afraid of giving too much.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them whey they have forgotten.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo
How great is God's goodness to have given you to me to love for a lidetime.
When two people fall in love, their lives become so full with all that they share - it seems as if nothing before could have ever been so complete.
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. ~ Thomas Codrington
When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be. ~ Leo Tolstoy
We loved with a love that was more than love -
A love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Love is a cozy shelter from life's rainy days.
Love comforteth like a sunshine after rain. ~ William Shakespeare
It makes you stronger, so that you can reach out and become involved with life in ways you dared not risk alone.
With each day, love brings new hope and enthusiasm for every shared tomorrow.
Joy is love exalted;
peace is love in repose;
long-suffering is love enduring;
gentleness is love in society;
goodness is love in action;
faith is love on the battlefield;
meekness is love in school;
and temperance is love in training. ~ Dwight L. Moody
'Tis love alone can hearts unlock:
Who knows the word, he need not knock. ~ Richard Crashaw
I will always want you in my life,
I will always keep you in my heart,
I will always need you by my side.
Love is most divine wen it loves according to needs and not according to merit. ~ George MacDonald
Thou art of my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me:
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee. ~ Robert Herrick
To love someone is to look into the face of God. ~ Victor Hugo
Love - thoughts of tenderness, tried in temptation, strengthened by distress, unmoved by absence, and yet, more than all, untired by time. ~ Lord Byron
I wish I could tell you the day, the hour, the minute my love for you became real. I only know it seems I've loved you forever.
We see those we love in every sunrise and in every sunset, in every tree and in every flower.
I have a garden of my own,
Shining with flowers of every hue;
I loved it dearly while alone,
But I shall love it more with you. ~ Sir Thomas More
To love someone is a beautiful necessity of living in this world.
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave,
But not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather. ~ Dean Edward Bannerman Ramsey
Any time that is not spent on love is wasted. ~ Torquato Tasso
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there's plenty of room on both ends.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love can hope where reason would despair. ~ Lord Lyttelton
At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato
Thinking of you always leads to a wonderful feeling of warmth, love, and pride.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seekeing, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ~ Corithians 13:4-5
Love requires sharing,
Sharing requires struggle,
Struggle requires faith,
Faith requires love.
In a kiss, two spirits meet, mingle, and become one. ~ Ailred of Rievalx
Love seems so mysterious, so magical, yet when it happens, there is nothing that could be more natural or right.
Love doesn't try to see through the loved one, but to see the loved one through.
Love is the only spiritual power that can overcome the self-centeredness that is inherent in being alive. ~ Arnold Toynbee
Love has never known a law
Beyond its own sweet will. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
To see her is to love her,
And love but her for ever,
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made another! ~ Robert Burns
Your love helps me get over the rough spots in life.
Love does not allow the lover to belong anymore to himself, but he belongs only to the Beloved. ~ Dionysius
Love and a cough cannot be hid. ~ George Hebbert
Love is a fabric that never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the waters of adversity and grief.
The rewards of love are always greater that its cost.
You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. ~ John Keats
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
May God give you eyes to see beauty only the heart can see.
A successful relationship comes not so much from finding the right partner, but rather from being the right partner and demonstrating love, faith, hope, and forgiveness.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. - Elbert Hubbard
He is not a love who does not love forever. ~ Euripides
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ~ P.J. Bailey
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy. ~ William Wordsworth
There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The most precious gifts are wrapped in love.
Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. ~ Barbara De Angelis
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. ~ Alexis Delp
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. ~ William Shakespeare
Sister Quotes
In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend. ~ Catherine Killigrew
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. ~ Toni Morrison
What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it? ~ Jenny DeVries
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. ~ Katherine Mansfield
There is no better friend than a sister. And there is no better sister than you.
Sisters share the scent and smells - the feel of a common childhood. ~ Pam Brown
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~ Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. ~ Betsy Cohen
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. ~ Deborah Moggach
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own. ~ Pam Brown
For there is not friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather. ~ Christina Rossetti
Sisters
Keep each others secrets
Bear each others burdens
Nudge each others laughter and
Hold on tightly to each others love
Sisters - Out lives have been brought together for a reason, and for that I am grateful. We have shared joy and sorrow, and hugs along the way. The bond we have is everlasting.
Friendship Quotes
Your friendship has filled my life with love, joy and laughter
Friends - You are always there with a hug when I need it, and the right words to let met know that you understand. Thank you for the joy you have brought to my life, and being my friend.