-Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
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Langston Hughes Quotations
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards all torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor —
Bare.
But all the time
I’se … Read the rest
Saint Basil Quotations
-Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man’s fortune.
-Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account … Read the rest
Anne Sexton
Paul Gauguin Quotations
-Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
-I shut my eyes in order to see.
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Cathy Guinsewite Quotations
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we’ve tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing … Read the rest
Max Frisch Quotations
-Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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Dr. Seuss Quotations
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you … Read the rest
Czech Proverbs
-The big thieves hang the little ones.
-When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
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Marya Mannes Quotations
-Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.
-The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it … Read the rest
Lillian Hellman Quotations
-Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
-Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
-The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for … Read the rest
William Gibson Quotations
-It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
-Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
-The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.
-The future has already … Read the rest
Alexis Carrel Quotations
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
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Jay Livingston & Ray Evans Quotations
When I was just a little girl/boy,
I asked my mother, “What will I be ?
Will I be pretty/handsome ?
Will I be rich ?”
Here’s what she said to me :
“Que Sera, Sera
Whatever will be, will … Read the rest
Sam Levenson
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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Yugoslav Proverbs
-Complain to one who can help you.
-If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
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Robert M. Pirsig Quotations
-Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down.
-To live only for some … Read the rest
Eric Gibson Quotations
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
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Anita Roddick Quotations
-If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Roddick… Read the rest
Robert Byrne
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
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Hannah Arendt Quotations
-The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
-The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which … Read the rest
Maxine Hong Kingston Quotations
-The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
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Dorothy Parker Quotations
-If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
-I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.
-If you want to know what … Read the rest
Audrey Hepburn
-Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
-I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, … Read the rest
Aphorisms & Proverbs
-A stitch in time saves nine.
-I’m not okay and you’re not okay, but that’s okay.
-The only person you can change is yourself.
-One day at a time.
-Don’t cross your bridges until you’ve come to them.
-Don’t put … Read the rest
Lester B. Pearson Quotations
-Perhaps there is a hopeful possibility here in the conquest of outer space. Interplanetary activity may well give us planetary peace. Once we discover Martian space ships hovering over Earth’s air space, we will all come together. ‘How dare they … Read the rest
George Shelley Quotations
-He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.
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Kilgore Trout Quotations
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Thomas Gray Quotations
-The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
-Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee’s collected treasures sweet, Sweet music’s melting full, but sweeter yet The still small voice of gratitude.
Thomas Gray… Read the rest
Marcel Proust Quotations
-When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
-The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing through new eyes.
-A cathedral, a wave of … Read the rest
Don McLean Quotations
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills… Read the rest
Alice Mackenzie Swaim Quotations
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice Mackenzie Swaim … Read the rest
Victor Frankl Quotations
-We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can … Read the rest
Ralph Stayer Quotations
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.
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Christopher Lasch Quotations
-A society that has made ‘nostalgia’ a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
-Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch … Read the rest
Paul Valery Quotations
-A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But … Read the rest
Cardinal Richelieu Quotations
Leniency gives rise to the ultimately necessary exercise of a degree of cruelty which could have been avoided by the employment of an efficacious punishment at an earlier time.”
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John R. Miller Quotations
-If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John R. Miller… Read the rest
Alan Patrick Herbert Quotations
-The conception of two people living together for 25 years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Charles Swindoll Quotations
-There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered!
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Russell Green Quotations
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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Robert Lindner
Non-conformity has become the major if not only sin we know today.
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Persian Proverbs
I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
Persian Proverbs… Read the rest
W. Edwards Deming
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Hume Cronyn Quotations
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn… Read the rest
Calvin Trillin Quotations
-Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
-The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has … Read the rest
Charlotte Whitton Quotations
-Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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Francis Quarles Quotations
-Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the … Read the rest
George Santayana Quotations
-The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
-Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
-Sanity is a madness put to good use.
-Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
-There … Read the rest
W.H. Thompson Quotations
-We are none of us infallible–not even the youngest of us.
W.H. Thompson… Read the rest
Angela L. Wozniak Quotations
-I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
Angela L. Wozniak… Read the rest
Bliss Carman
-I often wish… that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
-Indifference may not wreck a man’s life … Read the rest
William Faulkner Quotations
-I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
-Don’t … Read the rest
Whitney Young Quotations
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young… Read the rest
Anne Tyler Quotations
I’ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Anne Tyler… Read the rest
Esther Dyson Quotations
-The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther Dyson… Read the rest
Rabindranath Tagore Quotations
-What is art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
-I slept and dreamed that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted, and behold, service was joy.… Read the rest
Mario Andretti Quotations
-If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough
-Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain … Read the rest
Graham Greene Quotations
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene… Read the rest
Bob Dylan Quotations
-Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend … Read the rest
Alban Goodier Quotations
-Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.… Read the rest
John Ruskin Quotations
-The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
-…in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his … Read the rest
Bruce Barton Quotations
-When you’re through changing, you’re through.
Bruce Barton… Read the rest
Patty Hansen
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Patty Hansen… Read the rest
Jill Churchill Quotations
The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill… Read the rest
Robert Southey Quotations
-If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
-What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend … Read the rest
Norman Douglas Quotations
-How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
-If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
-You can tell the ideals of … Read the rest
Garrison Keillor Quotations
-A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
-It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor… Read the rest
John Henry Cardinal Newman Quotations
-Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman… Read the rest
Euripides Quotations
-Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
-Authority is never without hate.
-The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
-The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth … Read the rest
Benjamin Spock
-A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.
-What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for … Read the rest
Thomas Friedman Quotations
Don’t change your light bulbs, change your leaders.
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J. Bartlett Brebner Quotations
-Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlett Brebner… Read the rest
Vic Gold Quotations
The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Vic Gold… Read the rest
Michael Pritchard
-No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
-You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop … Read the rest
Gabrielle Reece Quotations
My philosophy is anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.
Gabrielle Reece… Read the rest
Frank Zappa Quotations
-Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa… Read the rest
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotations
-The only limit to the realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
-It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
-We cannot always build the future for … Read the rest
Doc Searls Quotations
-We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Doc Searls… Read the rest
David Neiswanger Quotations
If each of us can be helped by science to live a hundred years, what will it profit us if our hates and fears, our loneliness and our remorse will not permit us to enjoy them? What use is an … Read the rest
Mignon McLaughlin Quotations
-A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
-When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.
Mignon McLaughlin… Read the rest
O. A. Battista (Dr.)
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O. A. Battista… Read the rest
Homer Quotations
-I detest the man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
-A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning … Read the rest
Ray Bradbury Quotations
-We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
-You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
-I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always … Read the rest
D. T. Suzuki Quotations
-The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine creativity.
-Zen makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; … Read the rest
Nido Qubein Quotations
-Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein… Read the rest
Robert Redford
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford… Read the rest
Eugene McCarthy Quotations
-It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.… Read the rest
Dylan Thomas Quotations
-Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had … Read the rest
Karen Sunde Quotations
-To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde… Read the rest
Dan Fogelberg Quotations
-Travel the path of the heart instead of the path of convenience.
-The higher you climb,
The more that you see.
The more that you see,
The less that you know.
The less that you know,
The more that you … Read the rest
Nikos Kazantzakis Quotations
John Lyly
After three days, fish and guests stink.
John Lyly… Read the rest
Werner Heisenberg
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
Werner Heisenberg … Read the rest
Andy Warhol Quotations
-They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol… Read the rest
Sallust Quotations
-Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
-Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
-Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master.
-Small communities grow great through harmony, … Read the rest
Charles (Chic) Thompson Quotations
-Be an explorer…read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play…do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.
Charles (Chic) Thompson… Read the rest
Brian Tracy
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
Brian Tracy… Read the rest
Pliny the Younger Quotations
-Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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