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

I would rather be accused of...

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...

We can't all be heroes

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness. - Norman Vincent Peale In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936 I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791 We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. - Thomas Paine, The Crisis, no. 4, September 11, 1777 Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n...

We are an impossibility

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. - Noel Coward Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. - Cicero Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell READ MORE

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