Quotes

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." - Jacques Deval


"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath." - Solon


"Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world." - Samahria Lyte Kaufman

   
"I am open to receive with every breath I breathe." - Michael Sun    

"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." - Madeleine L'Engle 


"Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body." - Cher
   

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." - Anne Tyler


"We are advertis'd by our loving friends." - William Shakespeare


"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm


"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye


  




"It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy." - Steve Jobs


"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." - Henry Miller


"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." - Epictetus


"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Good order is the foundation of all things." - Edmund Burke
   

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." - James Beard


"Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry." - Spanish Proverb


"It has all been very interesting." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

   
"It is within the families themselves where peace can begin." - Susan Partnow


"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat." - Eric Hoffer


"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it." - Mark Twain    

"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most." - Kathryn L. Nelson


"He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain." - Chinese Proverb


"I always like a good math solution to any love problem." - Michael Patrick King


"On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero." - Chuck Palahniuk


"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt


"An idea is salvation by imagination." - Frank Lloyd Wright


"Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind." - Chinese Proverb


"It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me." - Keri Hulme


"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners." - William Shakespeare


"Make a decision, even if it's wrong." - Jarvis Klem

   
"You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren." - William Henry Hudson


"Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful." - A. R. Ammons
 

"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high." - Wilbur Wright

  
"Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them." - Madame de Stael


"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed." - Maria Montessori

  
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn


"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." - Baruch Spinoza

 
"What worries you masters you." - Haddon W. Robinson


"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices." - Benjamin Franklin


"Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." - Jewish Proverb


"The longest journey is the journey inward." - Dag Hammarskjold


"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,/ And all the sweet serenity of books." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." - Rita Mae Brown


"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli


"Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends." - Juvenal


"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H. G. Wells


"He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others." - William Hazlitt


"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King." 
- Emily Dickinson


"Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back." - Thomas a Kempis


"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck." - James A. Garfield

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde


"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise." - William Congreve


"Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors." - Jewish Proverb

 
"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself." - Francois Rabelais


"Death likes it when you play hard to get." - Randy K. Milholland

   
"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy." - Publilius Syrus


"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is." - John Lancaster Spalding

   
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman

 
"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins." - Native American Proverb

   
"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." - Tallulah Bankhead

   
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Moliere


 "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

 
"When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable." - W. Somerset Maugham 

   
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same." - Pearl Buck

     
"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." - David Starr Jordan


   
"We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it." - Dave Kellett