Quotes For You

Willa Cather. Photo: Britannica.com No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. - Willa Cather Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. - John Maynard Keynes Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. - G. K. Chesterton If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. - Mother Teresa You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. - Cicero The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

Goethe. Photo: Wikipedia We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. - Grenville Kleiser The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. - Wilfred A. Peterson Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. - Phil Jackson Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. - George Washington Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. - G. K. Chesterton The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. -...

Flip Wilson. Photo: yourblackworld.net The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. -  Flip Wilson Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished. - Leslie Nielsen Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. - Mike Ditka The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. - Arthur Ashe It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. - Betty Friedan

Mark Twain. Photo: American Heritage Trees Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. - Mark Twain 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 Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? - Cicero Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. - Gore Vidal Never give advice unless asked. - German Proverb Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld In love, one and one are one. - Jean-Paul Sartre Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. - Samuel Johnson

John Wayne. Photo: personalliberty.com Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. - John Wayne, Advice on acting Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. - Franklin P. Jones Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. - Bob Marley Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. - Seneca One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. - George Eliot Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Kahlil Gibran Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4 Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

Photo: Facts About Universal Medicine Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope

Ernest Hemingway. Photo: Chicago Tribune That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678) This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. - Francis Ford Coppola There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein Art is born of the o...

Photo: kqduane.com Your very silence shows you agree. - Euripides The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. - Benjamin Franklin The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. - Walt Whitman Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Henry David Thoreau Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Popularity? It is glory's small change. - Victor Hugo Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. - William Shakespeare He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. - Chuang-tzu Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. - Benjamin Haydon

Frank Zappa (Photo: Newsweek) In the fight between you and the world, back the world. - Frank Zappa What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. - Havelock Ellis All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912 Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. - Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010 Never fight an inanimate object. - P. J. O'Rourke Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. - Thomas Fuller Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ...

George Herbert. Photo: Wikipedia Storms make oaks take deeper root. - George Herbert There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. - Cicero If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. - Seneca The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. - Abraham Lincoln The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato

George Burns. Photo: Television Academy Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. - Cicero Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me n...

Frank Dane. Photo: Mediacourant Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. - Voltaire There are more fools in the world than there are people. - Heinrich Heine Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. - Isaac Newton The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie Be still when you h...

Albert Einstein. Photo: bbc.com Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. - W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. - Cecil B. DeMille Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. - Emily Dickinson You always pass failure on the way to success. - Mickey Rooney ...

Liberace. Photo: The Telegraph Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. - Liberace The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda Of those who say nothing, few are silent. - Thomas Neill Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. - Herman Melville Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. - Lyndon B. Johnson Two paradoxes ...

Photo: Biography.com Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. - Archimedes He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. - Sir Walter Scott Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photo: Wikipedia As we grow old...the beauty steals inward. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. - Harriet Beecher Stowe To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. - Benjamin Franklin None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. - Ferdinand Foch A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas A. Edison Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

John Kenneth Galbraith. Photo: Wikipedia Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. - Jean Nidetch Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. - Robert Louis Stevenson Creditors have better memories than debtors. - Benjamin Franklin, One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. - Friedrich Nietzsche When I was younger, I cou...

George Herbert. Photo: Wikipedia Storms make oaks take deeper root. - George Herbert Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. - Rita Mae Brown The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. - Walt Whitman A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. - John le Carre All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. - Mark Twain If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. - Arnold Palmer You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

Benjamin Franklin. Photo: Wikipedia Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?  - Benjamin Franklin  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.  - Albert Einstein  Never promise more than you can perform.  - Publilius Syrus  The only cure for grief is action.  - George Henry Lewes  What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.  - Samuel Johnson  Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.  -Thomas Jones  Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.  - Maya Angelou  Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.  - Mark Twain  Always be a little kinder than necessary.  - James M. Barrie  Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.  - Isaac Asimov 

Thomas Paine. Photo: Wikipedia Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.  - Thomas Paine  The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.  - Joan Baez  Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.  - Mark Twain  Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.  - Kin Hubbard  When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.  - Ernest Hemingway  In a mad world only the mad are sane.  - Akira Kurosawa  Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.  - Margaret Mitchell   Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. - Ludwig van Beethoven Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.  - Walter Winchell  For one person who dreams of making fifty tho...

Elvis Presley. Photo: Google I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.  - Elvis Presley  I hate music, especially when it's played.  - Jimmy Durante  My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.  - Martin Luther If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.  - Pierre Beaumarchais  Hope is a waking dream.  - Aristotle My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.  - Mary Shelly  Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson  Change your thoughts and you change your world.  - Norman Vincent Peale  We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.  - H. G. Wells  You can't build a reputation on what you...

Jackie Mason. Photo: Google I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. - Jackie Mason Too much of a good thing is wonderful. - Mae West A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord Chesterfield Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. - John Cleese I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ...

Henry David Thoreau. Photo: Google What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. - Henry David Thoreau The pleasure of love is in loving. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire Love is an irresistible desir...

Oscar Wilde. Photo: Google Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. - Henry David Thoreau I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. - Charles Dickens Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. - Norman Douglas

Gambar: Google Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.  - Chuck Norris  I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.  -  Maya Angelou  Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.  - Mark Twain  We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.  - Jean-Paul Sartre  A lie told often enough becomes the truth.  - Lenin  We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.  - Aristotle An idea is salvation by imagination.  - Frank Lloyd Wright  College isn't the place to go for ideas.  - Helen Keller  When ideas fail, words come in very handy.  - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and lear...

John Updike (Photo: The Vineyard Gazette) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. - Mark Twain Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Sir Winston Churchill Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike The wisest men follow their own direction. - Euripides Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn a...

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. - Willa Cather, My Antonia Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.  - Robert Louis Stevenson  Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.  - George Bernard Shaw  A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.  - Thomas Jefferson Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.  - Socrates  Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.  - Benjamin Franklin  Happiness depends upon ourselves.  - Aristotle Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.  - Charles de Montesquieu  Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.  - Jules Renard However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results...

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus, Maxims Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca, Epistles In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success. - Michael Jordan Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All yo...

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. - Norman Vincent Peale Your inner knowing is your only true compass. - Joy Page Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927 Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before whic...

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.  - Oscar Wilde  As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. -  Leonardo da Vinci  Man is what he believes.  - Anton Chekhov  True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.  - William Penn   A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.  - G. K. Chesterton  A room without books is like a body without a soul.  - Cicero  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.   - Groucho Marx  Woe be to him that reads but one book.  - George Herbert  Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.  - Evan Esar Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.  - Ot...