Quotes For You

  Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Oscar Wilde The wisest men follo...

  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

Photo: kqduane.com Your very silence shows you agree. - Euripides The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. - Benjamin Franklin The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. - Walt Whitman Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Henry David Thoreau Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Popularity? It is glory's small change. - Victor Hugo Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. - William Shakespeare He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. - Chuang-tzu Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. - Benjamin Haydon

Jackie Mason. Photo: Google I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. - Jackie Mason Too much of a good thing is wonderful. - Mae West A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord Chesterfield Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. - John Cleese I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ...

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...