Love is not enough

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. - Bette Davis

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed. - Samuel Johnson

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854

The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' - Steven Wright

Laugh and the world laughs with you

Image created by ChatGPT Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. - Hippocrates, Decorum I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinio...

Birds sing after a storm

Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? - Rose Kennedy You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. -Jane Goodall The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. -Martin Mull A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. -John le Carre Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. -Alexandre Dumas As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust...

10 Quotes

WORDS -10 QUOTES The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. - Lewis Carroll Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred Hitchcock Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. - Agatha Christie The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. - Joey Bishop If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ...

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