Quotes For You

  Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. - Sidney J. Harris Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. - David T. Wolf Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain No man ever listened himself out of a job. - Calvin Coolidge Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke READ MORE

  Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The body says what words cannot. - Martha Graham Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. - Josh Billings The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H. L. Mencken No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. - Robert Anton Wilson Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. - Vachel Lindsay READ MORE

  Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Oscar Wilde The wisest men follo...

  Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust Fortune favors the brave. - Virgil, Aeneid We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is better to know some of the quest...

  I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. - William Shakespeare Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth. - Will Rogers Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, the...

  Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. - Publilius Syrus Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust Fortune favours the bold. – Virgil Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets preparation. – Seneca Fortune is like glass — the brighter it shines, the more easily it is broken. – Publilius Syrus READ MORE