Quotes For You

  Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. - Eugene S. Wilson Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. - Steven Wright What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.  - Walter Pater Imagination is more important than knowledge... - Albert Einstein Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. - William Wirt READ MORE  

  The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Dorothy Parker The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor Every hero becomes a bore at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. - Gian Vincenzo Gravina The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. - H. L. Mencken A finished person is a boring person. - Anna Quindlen Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. - George Saunders, last words READ MORE  

  An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956 Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. - Chester Bowles Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome on...

  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx Our thoughts are free. - Cicero How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. - John Witherspoon Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Sir Francis Bacon Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Sir Richard Steele I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles De Gaulle Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. - Will Rogers READ MORE

  If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc. 3 [Spring is] when life's alive in everything. - Christina Rossetti An optimist is the human personification of spring. - Susan J. Bissonette Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes Make not your thoughts your prisons. - William Sha...

  Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few. - Moralia By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. - Mark Twain Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. -Samuel Johnson Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William Arthur Ward Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. - Og Mandino Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full ...

  Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. - Elmer G. Letterman Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. - Francis Thompson People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. - Hermann Hesse Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Sir Francis Bacon Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. - Sir Winston Churchill Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the en...

  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. - Burk Hudson Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Eugene Delacroix The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.  - Anna Quindlen Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. - Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. - Dr. David M. Burns Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real ...

  Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act III, sc. 1 Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William Arthur Ward Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. - Larry Gelbart Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge READ MORE

  Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. - Democritus College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. - Plato Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. - Jerome Blattner Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. - Thomas Fuller As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. - Frank Crane The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. - Frank Herbert It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson READ MORE