Sad love quotes

- One of the worst things that can happen to a person is losing his love without any another choice.

- Waiting for you is like waiting for something that never come.

- There are songs that make you cry when you hear them. But it aren't the songs that make you cry , it are the people behind the memories.

- It hurts so much to let you go but sometimes it hurts more to be beside me without any feelings.

- Should I smile because you will be my friend or cry because you will not be my  boyfriend.

- Time is the best way to mend the broken heart.

- Every night i cry maybe my tears clean my heart from your stupid love .

- Why we always hate who adore us and adore who hate us.

- Tears are words no one can explain it.

- If you really love me so much why you let me go !

- I love you more than you deserve and you hurt me more than i deserve and your hurt learn me that no one in this world deserve my tears.

- Sometimes memories hurt more than pain.

- The last moment before you go will be the last breath i will take in this world.

- Every time we talk i know that my silent love for you will keep silent forever.

- The hardest thing is fall in love with someone who fall in love with another one.

- It is better to forget you than to lost in your wounded hurt.

- After you i discovered that "no one die without love".

- I still remember your promise "together forever" and my brain is still searching for the error in our love folder.

- I miss the hug that made me forget the whole world.

- It is so hard when we risk our hearts and it broken but it's more hard when we still try when we know that we waiting for nothing.

Love quotes

-  I wiSh liFe waS liKe a bOok, Where yOu cOuld fliP tO anY Page tO haVe a lOok Or sKip tO The laSt Page tO See iF it'S a Sad Or a haPpy endinG

- The most beautiful thing in this world is to love and be loved.

- I really miss you more than any words can say ♥.♥.♥

- Everywhere I look (`-` ) (._. ) ( ._.) ( `-`) I see your eyes look at me.

- When i first meet you i never knew i would love you , after i fall in love with you i never knew i would miss you but i do and never want to change.

- While You`re Ignoring Her, Someone Else Is Willing To Give Her Aттεηтioη.

- I love all the stars in the sky, but they are nothing compared to the ones in your eyes.

- If you were a tear in my eye I would not cry for fear of losing you. ♥

- To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

-  If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

- What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Valentine's Day quotes

- Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

-A nice red flower for anice woman in anice day like valentine's day.

- I've fallen in love many times... always with you.

- Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

- Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts.

- True love stories never have endings.

- You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.

- The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.

- The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

- A life without love is like a year without summer.

- Everything is clearer when you're in love.

- You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

- You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

- Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.

- Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

- The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

- Everytime i close my eyes i see you in my dreams.

- you are my little angel.

New Year's quotes

- After only one moment close your eyes and wish what you want maybe god listen to you in this fantastic moment of new yeart.

- An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

- People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

- The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

- New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

- Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.

- I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.

- we always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

- The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

- An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

- He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

- Today all will Say goodbye to the last year and say hi to the new year because all will forget the past and look at the future.

Mother's Day quotes

- A mother is a person who seeing that there are only four pieces of pie for five people promptly announces she never did care for pie.

- The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

- All mothers are working mothers.

- The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

- A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

- A mother understands what a child does not say.

- The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

- Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

- An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

- Nobody knows of the work it makes/to keep the home together. Nobody knows of the steps it takes/ nobody knows but mother.

- If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

- A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

- The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

- No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Father's Day quotes

- He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence. Budington Kelland

- Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth.

- It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller.

- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams.

- Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

- Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown.

- I was immensely moved by these Father's Day quotes. They reflect on the greatness of fathers, which are quite often ignored by people. Take a closer look at the father-child relationship with these quotes.

- Looking for thought-provoking quotations that commemorate Father's Day? Read some of the best quotations and discover the virtues of a father. Make Father's Day a special occasion and show him how much you care.

- You might have noticed wrinkles of worry on your father's face. It is time you replaced those wrinkles with laughter lines. Get your father to shed his worries with these knee-slapping funny Father's Day sayings.

Christmas quotes

- I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. Bernard Manning.

- Christmas just like a day at the office; you do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit. Anonymous.

-  Decorate your homes with lots of mistletoe... this won't really help the environment... But more kissing has got to be good for world peace. Green Peace.

- Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? Arlo Guthrie.

- I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple.

- Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.

- Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.

Poetry quotes

- A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

- A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
Thomas Harrison

- A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson

- A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

- Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire

- Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset

- Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic

- You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
Stephane Mallarme

- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

- Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

- Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove

- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

- Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray

- Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo

- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
Roy Croft quotes

- “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

- “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes

- “Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic quotes

Happiness quotes

- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

- Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

- No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

- My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

- It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

- I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

- Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

- What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

- “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein quotes

- “The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
Oscar Wilde quotes

- “To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
Helen Rowland quotes

History quotes

- To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
Roy P. Basler

- The history of states and nations has provided some income for historiographers and book dealers, but I know no other purpose it may have served.
Borne

- History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.
J. H. Plumb

- A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana

- Any time gone by was better.
Jorge Manrique

- Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
Cicero

- History is ultimately more important than its singers.
Michael Harrington

- History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
Norman O. Brown

- Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
R. G. Collingwood

- The past does not influence me; I influence it.
Willem De Kooning

- To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
Lord Bolingbroke

- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
Winston Churchill quotes

- “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
Robert Francis Kennedy quotes

Graduation quotes

- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
 Marsje
Dr. Seuss quotes

- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
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Anatole France quotes

- “All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney quotes

- “The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.”
Ben Stein quotes

- “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

- Education ought not to cease when we leave school; but if well begun there, will continue through life.
- Sir John Lubbock

- Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course--because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
- Alice Drue Miller

- Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
- Joseph Story

Diet quotes

- "The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."
— Jackie Gleason

- "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
— Orson Welles

- "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet."
— William Gilmore Beymer

- "A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit."
— Unknown

- "In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips, and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale."
— Stephen Phillips

- "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets."
— Unknown

- I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
-Mae West

- I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it.
-Attributed to Daniel L. Worona

- The Cardiologist's Diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. –Sr. Anon.

Death quotes

- “If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
 shutterfly125
Chuck Palahniuk quotes

- “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Oscar Wilde quotes

- “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
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Eskimo Proverb quotes

- “He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.”
Voltaire quotes

- “LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for.”
 DankMojoJoJo
Aaron Howard quotes

- “Biography lends to death a new terror.”
Oscar Wilde quotes

- Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs

- We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)

- Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus

- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

- A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Women quotes

- “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”
Woodrow Wyatt quotes

- “A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed”

- “Women are necessary evils”
Proverb quotes

- Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

- A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow

- A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

- Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

- Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ~Ovid

- Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

- Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

- I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy

- All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

- Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wedding quotes

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown


We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. ~Gene Perret


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig


I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown


After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ~Douglas William Jerrold


[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally


Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson


I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner


Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ~Ambrose Bierce


The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin


The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee?
~Author Unknown


Marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.
- Dr. Jeremy Taylor

There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians 13:13

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
- William Shakespeare

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore....but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
- Kahlil Gibran

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hark! The merry chimes are pealing,
Soft and glad the music swells,
Gaily in the night wind stealing,
Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
- Eliza Cook

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
- Kahlil Gibran

Ask the child why it is born; ask the flower why it blossoms; ask the sun why it shines. I love you because I must love you.
- George P. Upton


When you meet someone who can cook and do housework--don't hesitate a minute--marry him.
- Unknown

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus

There is nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
- Thomas Moore

He is blessed in love alone,
Who loves for years and loves but one.
- Sir A. Hunt

Grace and remembrance be to you both.
- William Shakespeare

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Honore de Balzac

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
- Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash

Trust quotes

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson

Trust, but verify.
Ronald Reagan

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. ~Troy Kennedy-Martin, The Italian Job


You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. ~Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism


Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866


Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles Krauthammer


Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder


Trust is letting go of needing to know all the details before you open your heart. ~Author Unknown


Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler


Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare

Work quotes

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)


A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)


Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)


Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)


Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)


Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal


Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)


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

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Donald Norman

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Leigh Steinberg

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

Time quotes

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money


The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle


Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault


In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell


For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson


But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli


Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson


Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens


If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard


Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ~Jack London


Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller


The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~C.S. Lewis


Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? ~Paracelsus


What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine


Each moment has its sickle, emulous
Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep
Strikes empires from the root.
~Edward Young


The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~Martin H. Fischer


Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles


A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried


Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Time is the best teacher

Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz


Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus

Histories make men wise.
Francis Bacon

Success quotes

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."
-Mark Caine

 There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley

 There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
Orison Swett Marden

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Robert Collier

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Sports quotes

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
Greg Norman

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
Bob Verdi

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Black

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ~Jack Handey


Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish. ~Martin H. Fischer


October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football. ~Jason Love


I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal. ~Arthur Marshall

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel. ~Kevin Keegan, 1995


The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition. ~Nick Seitz


We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961


Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969


I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another. ~Al Oerter

Religion quotes

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Aaron Neville

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott

Richard J. Foster
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

The Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Pet quotes

"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals" ~ Anonymous

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" ~ Theophile Gautier

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras

"There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat." ~ Wesley Bates

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." ~ Anonymous

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us" ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself." ~ Josh Billings

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France

"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to." ~ Joe Gores

"A canter is the cure for all evil." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Dogs have owners, cats have staff." ~ Anonymous

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." ~ Ann Landers

"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat" ~ Warren Eckstein

"A house is not a home without a pet." ~ Anonymous

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." ~ Jean Cocteau

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans" ~ James Herriot

"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are
so placid and self-contained,
I stand and look at them long and long." ~ Walt Whitman

"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." ~ Samuel Butler

"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warmer." ~ Alfred North Whitehead

"...he will be our friend for always and always and always." ~ Rudyard Kipling

"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much." ~ Thornton Wilder

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman Ralph Augustine

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Cleveland Amory

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Martha Scott

Dogs are my favorite people.
Richard Dean Anderson

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle

The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
Bob Hope

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
Nicholas D. Kristof

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
Angus Young

Peace quotes

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace? ~J. Ramsay MacDonald


We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


Right is more precious than peace. ~Woodrow Wilson

Let us love the world to peace. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts. ~Charles Wesley Burns


We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. ~J. Ramsay MacDonald

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Peace Pilgrim

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Mark Kennedy

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim

Parenting quotes

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today”
- Anonymous

“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”
- O. A. Battista

“Kids spell love T-I-M-E.” – John Crudele


“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.”
- P.D. James

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
- Haim Ginott

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
- Virginia Satir

“That best portion of a good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
- William Wordsworth

“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.”
- Alvin Price

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum


Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott


The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer


If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis


It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Nature quotes

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

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

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Norman MacCaig

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux

Music quotes

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith


There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill


If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada


Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David Thoreau


Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven


I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet


Music's the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan


You are the music while the music lasts. ~T.S. Eliot


Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer


Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. ~Ezra Pound


He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~Robert Browning


You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket


If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. ~John Cage


Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett


Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine


All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

Movies quotes

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
Roland Emmerich

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguilera

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Dennis Quaid

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
Jerry Orbach

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Bette Davis

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
Jean-Luc Godard

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
Alex Winter

I make movies I want to see.
Neil LaBute

Life quotes

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou

Life must be lived as play.
Plato

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Hugh Leonard

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Pierre de Courbertin

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer

Life beats down and imprisons the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed–I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then figure out how to sell it for $5.00 a glass.
John Woodman

The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David O. McKay

It’s your life, your one and only life-so take excellence very personally.
Scott Johnson

Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Health quotes

There are some remedies worse than the disease.
- Publilius Syrus

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
- Hippocrates

You should pray for a healthy mnd in a healthy body.
- Juvenal

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

- Menander

Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings.

- Ariphron

Body: A thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.
- H.G. Bohn

The King who cannot rule his diet,
Will hardly rule his realm in peace and quiet.
- Passage from the "Rule of Health of Salerno", author unknown


Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
- Henry Miller

Time is the great physician.
- Benjamin Disraeli

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
- Seneca

America's health care system is second only to Japan ... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain ... well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!
- Homer Simpson

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.
- Herb Shriner

Time is the great physician.
- Benjamin Franklin

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Mark Twain

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mohandas Gandhi

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

Funny quotes

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.
Kevin Nealon

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."
Claude Pepper

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
Jerry Seinfeld

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
Rodney Dangerfield

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
Hillary Clinton

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
Elayne Boosler

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Jay Leno

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
Joe E. Lewis

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
Chris Rock

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
Kevin James

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
Dennis Miller

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

Friendship quotes

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies). Sent by clovers

"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam

"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- sent by Steve

"Every person is a new door to a different world."
 - from movie

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
- Mary Catherwood

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis

"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel."
- Logan Pearsall Smith

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
- (sent by Dior Yamasaki)

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln, (sent by Heather Myers)

"The love of my life is the love between friends."
- (sent by Jess)

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
- Samuel Johnston, (as above)

"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) French writer.

"If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!"
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) British dramatist.

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington (1732 - 1799) US Statesman.

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
- George Washington, (as above)

"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
- George Washington, (as above)

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
- Woodrow Wilson

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
- Oscar Wilde

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle

"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
- John Boyle O'Reilly

"Friends have all things in common."
- Plato

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Artistotle

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford

"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale

"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
- Henry David Thoreau

"One's best friend is oneself."
- (sent by Jess)

Forgiveness quotes

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. --William A. Ward

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. --Lewis B. Smedes

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. --Mignon McLaughlin

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. --William Blake:

We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore. –Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. --Jessamyn West

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
--Lord Chesterfield

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. --Logan Pearsall Smith

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. --Robert Quillen

Forgiveness is the final form of love. --Reinhold Niebuhr

One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. --John Sheffield

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown

We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven. --Martha Kilpatrick

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. --George MacDonald

God's love wash over both of you until it penetrates your heart. Carol Luebering

A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. Hannah More

An apology is a good way to have the last word. Unknown

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. Mohandas Gandhi

Recognize that peace and forgiveness do not depend on feelings of piety but on Christ and on what He has done. John White

“They owe, they owe, they owe!” Such is the voice of unforgiveness. And all the while the accuser is in his own debtors’ prison having forgotten to give forgiveness. Unforgiveness is a debt that makes life a prison cell. Gary Amirault

We cannot be right with God when we are wrong with others. Lehman Strauss

Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other. Lewis B. Smedes

Dreams quotes

All men of action are dreamers.
James Huneker

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Joy Page

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
Donald G. Mitchell

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
Jim Bakker

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fuller

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
Herbert Kaufman

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
Roy Orbison

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna Ciccone

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Bill Watterson

Change quotes

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Ellis

When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw Lec

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.
Peter Wright

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Denis Waitley

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius


Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett


The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow


Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. ~Laurens van der Post

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown


Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust


Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman


If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown

Birthday quotes

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time." - Jean Paul Richter

"May you live all the days of your life." - Jonathan Swift

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." - William Shakespeare

"It's not how old you are, but how you are old."

"PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind."
- Alexander Pope

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
- Chili Davis

"You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again."

"No wise man ever wished to be younger." - Jonathan Swift

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune." - English Proverb

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Jack Benny

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
- Cherokee Expression

"It is better to wear out than to rust out." - Bishop Richard Cumberland

"Count your life by smiles, not tears,
Count your age by friends, not years."

"A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age."

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Cherish God's love and celebrate His plan for you!
Happy Birthday

I hope that your day is blessed with happiness and joy.

Praying that your day is as special as you are.

May the good Lord shower you with many blessings on your special day.

Birthdays give us the opportunities to stop and appreciate all the
beautiful things we have been blessed with.

 "I thank my God in all my remembrance of you." Philippians

"This is the day the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it."
 PSALMS

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash


They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown


We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881


Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis


Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz