" That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "
Don Marquis US humorist (1878 – 1937)
" Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves. "
Laurie Jo Wojcik
" You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. "
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)
" Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. "
Thomas H. Huxley English biologist (1825 – 1895)
" I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find – at the age of fifty, say – that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. "
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977 English mystery author (1890 – 1976)
" The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. "
Marcel Proust French novelist (1871 – 1922)
" An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. "
Dan Rather US television newscaster (1931 – )
" We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. "
Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976 US diplomat & Democratic politician (1924 – )
" Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. "
Andre Gide French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 – 1951)
" Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. "
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
" The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. "
William Faulkner US novelist (1897 – 1962)
" People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. "
W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965)
" Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. "
Roy M. Goodman
" I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower US general & Republican politician (1890 – 1969)
" Egotism — usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. "
Barbara Stanwyck
" No one can earn a million dollars honestly. "
William Jennings Bryan US lawyer, orator, & politician (1860 – 1925)
" The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. "
Dorothy Nevill
" A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity "
John Ballantine Gough
" It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words. "
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
" Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. "
Theodore Roosevelt 26th president of US (1858 – 1919)
" Authenticity matters little, though–our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. "
David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, February 25, 2000 Writer at snopes.com
" To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. "
Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
" Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter. "
Author Unknown
" We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. "
Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)
" Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. "
Thomas Carlyle Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)
" Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. "
Unknown Russian
" People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children. "
Mary McCarthy
" To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. "
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
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