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using the authors last names. All authors have the dates they
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Page Last updated on January 25, 2001
"Love is a great beautifier"
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
"There are some people that if they don't know,
you can't tell'em."
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
"When you come to a road block,
take a detour."
Mary Kay Ash (1915- )
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
"Not everything that is faced
can be changed, but nothing
can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
Thomas Bayly (1797-1839)
"To generalize is to be an idiot."
William Blake (1757-1827)
"No bird soars too high
if he soars with his own wings."
William Blake (1757-1827)
"Thy friendship oft
has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy-
for friendship's sake."
William Blake (1757-1827)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"The best things in life aren't things"
Art Buchwald (1925- )
"Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese."
Billie Burke (1884-1970)
"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and
tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you
will have been all of these. "
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
"You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it."
Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
"Our greatest glory
is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius (551-479 BC)
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Confucius (551-479 BC)
"We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"A lie gets halfway around the world
before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"To live is so startling
it leaves little time for anything else."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"Little things affect little minds."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys.
If he counted them up as he ought to,
he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881)
"You will find as you look back upon your life
that the moments when you have really lived
are the moments when you have done
things in the spirit of love."
Henry Drummond (1854-1907)
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
Abba Eban (1915-)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former. "
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Love and you shall be loved."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Give all to love; obey thy heart."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"There is no point at which you can say,
'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'"
Carrie Fisher(1956- )
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"The ultimate goal should be
doing your best and enjoying it."
Peggy Fleming (1948- )
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting,
and of all relationships."
Jodie Foster (1962- )
"Well all live with the objective of being happy,
our lives are all different and yet the same."
Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"When you're finished changing, you're finished."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"If you have a true friend,
you have more than your share."
Thomas Fuller (1573-1659)
"Love has no other desire but to fulfull itself.
To melt and be like a running brook
that sings its melody to the night.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart
and give thanks for another day of loving."
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity."
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"Yesterday is but today's memory,
and tomorrow is today's dream."
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,
but manifestations of strength and resolutions."
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use
will find their greatest happiness in using it."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday.
Tomorrow is still beyond your reach."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
"Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination;
do not become the slave of your model."
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often
when I loved, I did not say so."
David Grayson (1890-1990)
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
Nathan Hale (1755-1776)
"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."
Goldie Hawn (1945- )
"People change and forget to tell eachother."
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it
the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
"Never give up on anybody."
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness,
making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade,
but in the sunshine of life."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot in it and hang on."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Life is a big canvas,
throw all the paint on it you can."
Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
"Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadows."
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"He who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952)
"People demand freedom of speech
to make up for the freedom of thought
which they avoid."
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"People demand freedom of speech
to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends. "
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together."
Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster,
and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. "
A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"No good deed goes unpunished"
Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."
George MacDonald (1824-1905)
"Do the things you know,
and you shall learn the truth you need to know"
George MacDonald (1824-1905)
"The more I traveled the more I realized
that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
Shirley MacLaine (1934- )
"I've had a wonderful time,
but this wasn't it."
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"Sticks and stones are hard on bones,
aimed with angry art,
words can sting like anything
but silence breaks the heart."
Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)
"I must govern the clock not be governed by it."
Golda Meir (1898-1978)
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart
don't know how to laugh either."
Golda Meir (1898-1978)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
Golda Meir (1898-1978)
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery,
it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo(1474-1564)
"Life is a great surprise.
I don't see why death should not be an even greater one."
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. "
Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"All the gold in the world has no significance.
That which is lasting are the thoughtful acts which we do for our fellow man."
Adolfo Prieto (1867-1945)
"If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can't it get us out?"
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"You will get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
George Sand (1804-1876)
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher. "
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
"Self-loving is not so vile a sin,
my liege, as self-neglecting."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great,
some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills (1929-)
"All's fair in love and war."
Francis Edward Smedley (1712-1773)
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
Mother Theresa(1910-1997)
"It's never to late to give up your prejudices."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
David Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
James Thurber(1894-1961)
"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
James Thurber(1894-1961)
"It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
James Thurber(1894-1961)
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat."
Lily Tomlin (1939- )
"The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Always do right, this will gratify some
and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"You can't depend on your eyes
if your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. "
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"I have never let schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Dreams come true; without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them."
John Updike(1932- )
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
Paul Valery (1871-1945)
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
Henry Van Dyke(1852-1933)
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890)
"Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age."
Alfred Victor Vigny(1797-1863)
"A witty saying proves nothing."
Francis M. Voltaire(1694-1778)
"I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Francis M. Voltaire(1694-1778)
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
Francis M. Voltaire(1694-1778)
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Francis M. Voltaire(1694-1778)
"Love truth, but pardon error."
Francis M. Voltaire(1694-1778)
"For all sad words of tongue and pen,
the saddest are those 'It might have been.'"
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. "
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
Oprah Winfrey (1954-)
"Unless you choose to do great things with it,
it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have."
Oprah Winfrey (1954-)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"The artist is nothing without the gift,
but the gift is nothing without work. "
Emile Zola (1840-1902)
