Quotes

The Trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in a hurry. - John Jensen

Life is thirst. - Leonard Michaels

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. - Cicero

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. - Voltaire

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. - Voltaire

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. - St. Francis of Assisi

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. - Emerson

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. - Robert Browning

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - James Crook

Example is contagious behavior. - Charles Reade

All man's gains are fruit of venturing. - Herodotus

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. - Dick Armey

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. - Mark Twain

Politicians are people who, when they see the light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy more tunnel. - John Quinton

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. - Enrique Jardiel Poncela

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. - Lynn Johnston

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV. - Jerry Seinfeld

The most I can do for my friend is to simply to be a friend. - Henry David Thoreau

There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense. - African Proverb

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. - G.C. Lightenberg

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

You cannot paint the "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. - William F. Buckley, Jr.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who have to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves. - Tom Clancy

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. - Basil, 329-379 A.D.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato, B.C. 427?-347?

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. - Franklin, 1706-1790

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. - Longfellow, 1819-1892

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. - Confucius, B.C. 551-479

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us. - Anna Jameson, 1794-1860

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860

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

Can I ever know you Or you know me? -- Sara Teasdale

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. -- Shimon Peres

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye. -- Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. -- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, in All About Eve

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. -- William Arthur Ward

You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. -- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, A Wing and a Prayer, 1994

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? -- Thomas a Kempis

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. -- Herbert Bayard Swope