Quotes

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
- Charles Luckman 


History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)



What happens when the future has come and gone?
- Robert Half  



What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.  
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) 



"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future." – Chuck Palahniuk


"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." 
– Jules Renard 




"I stand in awe of my body." – Henry David Thoreau 


 "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." – John Muir



If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett (1936 - ) 



Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) 



Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)  



I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005) 







"Even writers need relief from words." 
– Sarah Vowell 




"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far." 
– Thomas Jefferson 



"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." 
– William Blake  


"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes." 
– Friedrich Nietzsche






"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." 
– Lois McMaster Bujold  

 "Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing." 
– David march

 
 
"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One." 
– Benjamin Franklin 

 

"Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it." 
 - Jon Smith




"The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone." 
– Thomas H. Huxley 

 
 
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." – Anne Frank



"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." 
– William Cowper

 

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place." 
- Bob Davis

 


"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid." 
– Publilius Syrus  





"I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none." – Ben Shahn 


"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released." 
– Jean Houston 


"The best mirror is an old friend." 
– George Herbert 


"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." 
– William Van Horne 


 


"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." 
– Mitch Albom 








"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue." – John Herschel