Quotes

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. -- Lydia M. Child

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. -- Alan Watts

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are. -- Noah Porter

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. -- The Dhammapada

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. -- Brendan Francis

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Regimen is superior to medicine. -- Voltaire

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there. -- David Zucker

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. -- Oliver Goldsmith

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. -- Amos Bronson Alcott

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. -- Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845

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

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. -- Michel de Montaigne

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. -- Matthew Arnold, 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712

Joy is not in things; it is in us. -- Richard Wagner

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. -- Edith Sodergran

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world. -- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999

Anything you fully do is an alone journey. -- Natalie Goldberg

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. -- Louise Erdrich

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. -- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. -- Scottish Proverb

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. -- Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. -- David Viscott

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives. -- Terry Lynn Taylor

A man can do all things if he but wills them. -- Leon Battista Alberti

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. -- Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. -- Ninon de Lenclos

A full cup must be carried steadily. -- English Proverb

Life is a risk. -- Diane Von Furstenberg

Sex should be wild. Unfettered and free. We're animals, aren't we? And, basically, we're all wolves in sheep's fur. I always wanted more. Not frequency, I am not talking about frequency; although that would have been great, too. I wanted more intensity. I wanted to be out there, outside myself, outside my skin. I wanted sex to be like robbing life out of the jaws of death! -- Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Goodbye to All That, 1991

He who laughs, lasts! -- Mary Pettibone Poole

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. -- Phyllis Mcginley

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. -- Shana Alexander

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. -- Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. -- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 27, 2003