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

  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 ...

  Drive thy business or it will drive thee. - Benjamin Franklin 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 A dinner lubricates business. - Lord William Stowell There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. - David Letterman No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. - Thorstein Veblen My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892 In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. - Warren Buffett I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. - G. K. Chesterton Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F....

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers, New York Times, Apr. 29, 1930 Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. - Plutarch Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. - John Randolph We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F. Kennedy The sinews of war are infinite money. - Cicero When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. - Albanian Proverb Examine what is said, not him who speaks. - Arab Proverb BACA LAGI  

  Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. - Alexandre Dumas I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover Strong reasons make strong actions. - William Shakespeare Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. - Jean Paul Richter No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. - Plutarch You must not come lightly to the blank page. - Stephen King Reason should direct and appetite obey. - Cicero

  Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. - Sidney J. Harris Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. - David T. Wolf Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain No man ever listened himself out of a job. - Calvin Coolidge Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke READ MORE

  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

  Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - G. K. Chesterton Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. - Tallulah Bankhead You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. - Peter Ustinov They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Sir Francis Bacon I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. - John D. Rockefeller Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn READ M...

  Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C. S. Lewis I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan Quayle There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. - Sir Winston Churchill The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now. - John F. Kennedy Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. - Charles M. Schulz READ MORE

  Horace Walpole The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. - Alexander Hamilton To play it safe is not to play. - Robert Altman There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington The world is round; it has no point. - Adrienne E. Gusoff I think the world is run by 'C' students. - Al McGuire The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. - Albert Einstein All the world's a cage. - Jeanne Phillips All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey READ MORE

  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...

  Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - Robert Louis Stevenson Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -Mark Twain This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. - Bill Murray The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald ...

  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill READ MORE

  The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. - Mark Twain Energy is eternal delight. - William Blake Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. - Liberace If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. - Robert Louis Stevenson Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates Be sincere; be brief; be seated. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb READ MORE

  Photo: Mike / Pexels Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - e e cummings The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -  Mark Twain To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore READ MORE NICE

  The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - e e cummings One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller A Hospital is no place to be sick. - Samuel Goldwyn The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson [Common sense] is the best sense I know of. - Lord Chesterfield You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? - Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. - Robert Louis Stevenson Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain He who would travel happily must travel light. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery READ MORE NICE

  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...

  Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. --Samuel Butler Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. --Oscar Wilde A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. --Emily Dickinson, No. 1333 Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. --Mark Twain To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie...