Quotes For You

  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...

  Image: ChatGPT When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Sir Winston Churchill Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. - Edward M. Kennedy I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. - Laurence J. Peter A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Tact is the ability to describe other...

  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

  Image of Frank Zappa created by ChatGPT Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. - H. L. Mencken Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill Silence is more musical than any song. - Christina Rossetti To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. - Jo...

  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 art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity - Walt Whitman It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. - Pierre Beaumarchais It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. - Isaac Asimov A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - George Bernard Shaw It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. - Sir Winston Churchill If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Food is our common ground, a universal experience. - James Beard There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington READ MORE NICE

  Lucille Ball The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. --Lucille Ball All things must change to something new, to something strange. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. --Marie Curie How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? --Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962 You live and learn. At any rate, you live. --Douglas Adams I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. --Jane Austen It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. --Sir Winston Churchill A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. --Herman Melville Lack of money is the root of all evil. --George Bernard Shaw You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. --Jack London READ MORE...

  Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. --Carl Sandburg Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. --Sir Winston Churchill You must lose a fly to catch a trout. --George Herbert It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. --Agnes Repplier Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. --Arthur Miller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. --Frank Zappa Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. --G. K. Chesterton Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin Luther King Jr. An idea is salvation by imagination. --Frank Lloyd Wright READ MORE

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photo: Wikipedia As we grow old...the beauty steals inward. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. - Harriet Beecher Stowe To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. - Benjamin Franklin None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. - Ferdinand Foch A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas A. Edison Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

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...

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...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.  - Robert Louis Stevenson  Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.  - George Bernard Shaw  A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.  - Thomas Jefferson Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.  - Socrates  Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.  - Benjamin Franklin  Happiness depends upon ourselves.  - Aristotle Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.  - Charles de Montesquieu  Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.  - Jules Renard However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results...

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.  - Sir Winston Churchill