Quotes For You

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...