Quotes For You

  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

  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...

  Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. - John F. Kennedy Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915 You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero If you cannot convince them...

  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 mistake...

  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...

  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

  Image by Grok The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. - John Irving I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. - Duke Ellington To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. - Confucius If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act 2 If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961 To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton Vote early and vote often. - Al...

  Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. --Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927 Love truth, and pardon error. --Voltaire Walking is man's best medicine. --Hippocrates The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. --Benjamin Franklin In summer, the song sings itself. --William Carlos Williams How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. --Henry David Thoreau At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. --Friedrich Nietzsche Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. --Napoleon Bonaparte Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. --Ralph Waldo Emerson READ MORE INTERESTING

Marguerite de Valois Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. --Marguerite de Valois Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. --Henry David Thoreau Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. --Walter Winchell It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. --Jonathan Swift The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. --Elizabeth Taylor To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. --Jane Austen Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. --Jean Paul Richter If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play....

  Otto von Bismarck When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. --Otto von Bismarck Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. --Aristotle Be sincere; be brief; be seated. --Franklin D. Roosevelt Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. --Sir Francis Bacon What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? --Henry David Thoreau There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. --James Thurber The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain. --Susan B. Anthony Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. --Samuel Johnson I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. --Mark Twain Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a m...

  By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. --Socrates The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape... --Pablo Picasso It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. --Henry David Thoreau The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. --Cecil B. DeMille Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. --Eleanor Roosevelt We turn not older with years, but newer every day. --Emily Dickinson One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. --Oscar Wilde You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. -...

Willa Cather. Photo: Britannica.com No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. - Willa Cather Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. - John Maynard Keynes Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. - G. K. Chesterton If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. - Mother Teresa You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. - Cicero The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

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

Henry David Thoreau. Photo: Google What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. - Henry David Thoreau The pleasure of love is in loving. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire Love is an irresistible desir...

Oscar Wilde. Photo: Google Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. - Henry David Thoreau I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. - Charles Dickens Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. - Norman Douglas

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

Our life is frittered away by details...Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau