Quotes For You

  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...

  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

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

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. - Willa Cather, My Antonia Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that...