Quotes For You

  Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600 Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. - Henry James, from his essay about the rules of writing Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. - Aristotle Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. - Saint Francis of Assisi...

  Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. - Italian Proverb Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo da Vinci The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865 We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury READ MORE

  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14 READ MORE

  Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - Robert Louis Stevenson 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 This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. - Bill Murray The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald ...

  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill READ MORE