I love quotes.... witty quotes, pretty quotes, profound quotes, funny quotes. I collect them the way I collect knick-knacks or books. Here is my collection of quotes, I have organized it by topic:

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. ~ Unknown

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ~ Doug Larson

Action is the real measure of intelligence. ~ Napoleon Hill

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~ Unknown

All men of action are dreamers. ~ James G. Huneker

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. ~ John

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. ~ Robert Benchley

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ~ Traditional - Chinese

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Discipline, the bridge between goals and accomplishments. ~ Unknown

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. ~ John Wesley

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today. ~ James Dean

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~ Samuel Butler

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. ~ Erica Jong

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ~ Mason Cooley

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~ Epictetus

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Forever is composed of nows. ~ Emily Dickinson

Hell, there are no rules here we're trying to accomplish something. ~ Thomas Edison

I like things to happen; and if they don't happen, I like to make them happen. ~ Winston Churchill

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. ~ Helen Keller

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~ Henry David Thoreau

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them growing. ~ Coco Chanel

It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering. ~ Patrice Gifford

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. ~ Shel Silverstein.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

May you work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, and Dance like no one is watching. ~ Traditional - Irish

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared. ~ P. J. Plauger

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic ~ Unknown

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~ Edward Everett Hale

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ~ John Andrew Holmes

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~ Catherine O'Hara

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Of life’s two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand. ~ Kahil Gibran

One today is worth two tomorrows. ~ Benjamin Franklin

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. ~ Frederick Douglass

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ~ St Augustine

Skill to do comes of doing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~ Emile Zola

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. ~ Orison Swett Marden

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~ Ernest Newman

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~ Walter Bagehot

The harder I work, the luckier I get. ~ Sam Goldwyn

The phrase working mother is redundant. ~ Jane Sellman

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. ~ James Baldwin

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ~ Pearl Buck

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. ~ Mark Twain *New Quote *

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. ~ E.B. White

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What would you attempt to do...if you knew you could not fail? ~ Unknown

Whatever you are be a good one. ~ Abraham Lincoln

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~ William James

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius

Work is love made visible. ~ Kahlil Gibran

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~ Henry Ford

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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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~ John Keats

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Unknown

Beauty is before me, and beauty behind me, Above me and below me hovers the beautiful. I am surrounded by it, I am immersed in it. In my youth, I am aware of it, and, in old age I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail. In beauty it is begun. In beauty it is ended. ~ Navajo Prayer

Beauty is whatever gives joy. ~ Saint Edna Vincent Millay

Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stone and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~ Lydia M. Child

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.~ Elizabeth Murray

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. ~ Albert Einstein

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears. ~ Unknown

Of life’s two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand. ~ Kahil Gibran

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury

Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories. ~ Unknown

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A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. ~ Traditional - Irish

A toast to your coffin: May it be made of 100 year old oak. and may we plant the tree together, tomorrow. ~ Traditional - Irish

And the wind said: May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch; may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow; and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth. ~ Traditional - Native American

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.~ Unknown

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. ~ Unknown

Here’s to a long life and a merry one, a quick death and an easy one, a pretty girl and an honest one, a cold beer and another one! ~ Traditional - Irish

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~ Langston Hughes

May the most you wish for be the least you get. ~ Traditional - Irish

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of His hand. ~ Traditional - Irish

May those that love us, love us. And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles so we will know them by their limping. ~ Traditional - Irish

May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on your windowpane. May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. ~ Traditional - Irish

May you live all the days of your life. ~ Jonathon Swift

May you live as long as you want And never want as long as you live. ~ Traditional - Irish

May you work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, and Dance like no one is watching. ~ Unknown

May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead. ~ Traditional - Irish

May your home always be too small to hold all your friends. ~ Traditional - Irish

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more and nothing but happiness come through your door. ~ Traditional - Irish

The Irish - Be they kings, or poets, or farmers, they’re a people of great worth; they keep company with the angels, and bring a bit of heaven here to earth. ~ Unknown

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

When the first light of sun- Bless you. When the long day is done- Bless you. In your smiles and your tears- Bless you. Through each day of your years- Bless you. ~ Traditional - Irish

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

A word to the wise ain't necessary it's the stupid ones who need the advice. ~ Bill Cosby

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~ Unknown

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

Ahhh! A man with a sharp wit! Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself. ~ Peter da Silva

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. ~ Edward Hopper

Meow is like aloha-it can mean anything. ~ Unknown

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. ~ Margaret Millar * New Quote *

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. ~ Jascha Heifetz * New Quote *

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. ~ Emily Dickinson

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ Ben Jonson

The first step to wisdom is silence: The second is listening. ~ Unknown

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. ~ Robert Frost

There are two types of people those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.' ~ Frederick Collins

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. ~ Albert Guinon * New Quote *

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.~ Epictetus

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. ~ Hansell B. Duckett * New Quote *

Who gossips with you will gossip of you. ~ Unknown

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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~ J.C. Watts

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. ~ John Wesley

First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me. ~ Martin Niemöller

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination. ~ John Luther

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. ~ Ovid

I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy ... tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize ... that I have three or four hundred other awards. I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to give his life serving others.... Say that I was a drum major for justice ... for peace ... for righteousness ... I just want to leave a committed life behind. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. ~ Ann Landers

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us. ~ Thomas Paine

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~ Albert Einstein

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin * New Quote *

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. ~ Holocaust Museum Washington DC

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. ~ Frank Outlaw

Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. ~ Heinrich Heine

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A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. ~ Eric Pio

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~ William Styron

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. ~ Abraham Maslow

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. ~ Leopold Stokowski

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~ Robert Frost

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Cicero

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. ~ Gaston Bachelard

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the school-masters of ever afterward. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ~ Dan Rather

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. ~ John Hoyer Updike

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~ Twyla Tharp

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~ Theodore Dreiser

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done. ~ Pablo Picasso

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. ~ Jan Morris

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~ James Russell Lowell

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ~ Barbara Tuchman

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles W. Eliot

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ~ Lord Byron

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ~ Emilie Buchwald

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice. ~ James Howell

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. ~ M.C. Escher

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. ~ Rollo May

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep ~ Scott Adams

Dance until the stars fall from the sky and fill your hair with sparkle and light. ~ Unknown

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~ Samuel Butler

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. ~ Virginia Woolf

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. ~ Unknown

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~ Mark Twain

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. ~ Emile Zola

I dream my painting and then paint my dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

I have fallen in love a thousand times in my lifetime. All which have been with books. ~ Unknown

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. ~ Robert Frost

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~ James Michener

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~ Anna Quindlen

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ~ Joan Didion

I write music with an exclamation point! ~ Richard Wagner

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. ~ Edward Hopper

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music. ~ Albert Einstein

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~ Isaac Asimov

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. ~ Maxwell Anderson * New Quote *

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty four year old level. ~ Dana Carvey

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. ~ Andre Maurois

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ~ Kathleen Norris

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. ~ Oscar Wilde

Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill. ~ Edmund Morrison

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ~ Helen Keller

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

May you work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, and Dance like no one is watching. ~ Traditional - Irish

Music expresses that which cannot be said, and which cannot be suppressed. ~ Unknown

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ~ John Erskin

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~ Maya Angelou

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) Everybody drinks water. ~ Mark Twain

My home is where my books are. ~ Ellen Thompson

My mother said to me, If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ~ Pablo Picasso

My work is a game, a very serious game. ~ M.C. Escher

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~ Hart Crane

Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked up our books through the years, here & there, never buying one until we had first read it & knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph. ~ L. M. Montgomery

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~ Pablo Picasso

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

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ~ Dawn Adams

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. ~ Georgia O'Keefe

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. ~ Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase" * New Quote *

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~ Emile Zola

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box .~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~ Mata Hari

The difference between the artist and the non-artist is that the artist never stops playing. ~ Alex Mozart

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~ Ernest Newman

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority. ~ Jean Caldwell

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ~ Katharine Mansfield

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ~ Edwin Schlossberg

The world is but a canvas to our imaginations. ~ Henry David Thoreau

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. ~ Mark Twain

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and erotica. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and likewise, it's hard to argue someone out of an erection. ~ Roger Ebert

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. ~ Warren G. Bennis

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ~ Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away, nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry. ~ Emily Dickinson

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. ~ Robert Graves

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations, such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~ Kenko Yoshida

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ~ Henry Van Dyke

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words. ~ John Fowles

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems. ~ Unknown

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. ~ Cecil Day Lewis

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. ~ Thomas Carlyle

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. ~ Thomas Crum

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food. ~ Deciderius Erasmus

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~ John Ruskin

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. ~ John Berger

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. ~ Heinrich Heine

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. ~ Elie Wiesel

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ~ Jessamyn West

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

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~ Paul Sweeney

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. ~ James Baldwin

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All men of action are dreamers. ~ James G. Huneker

Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today. ~ James Dean

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. ~ James Allen

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~ William Derment

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~ Marsha Norman

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ~ Anais Nin

I dream my painting and then paint my dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

I dream, therefore I exist. ~ J. August Strindberg

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. ~ Jonas Salk

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ William Butler Yeats

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not? ~ George Bernard Shaw

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~ George Santayana

A word to the wise ain't necessary it's the stupid ones who need the advice. ~ Bill Cosby

All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~ Clive James

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~ Dandemis

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. ~ Albert Einstein

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. ~ Vernon Law

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ~ Josh Billings

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. ~ Samuel Butler

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. ~ Barry LePartner

Good teaching is ¼ preparation and ¾ theater. ~ Gail Goodwin

Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. ~ John Rogers

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo

I don’t always know what I’m talking about, but I know I’m always right. ~ Muhammad Ali

I don’t pretend we have the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

I have a deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. Albert Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~ Albert Einstein

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details. ~ Albert Einstein

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared. ~ P. J. Plauger

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten. ~ Wendy Kaminer

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. ~ Albert Einstein

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.~ Henry Ward Beecher

The tassel is worth the hassle. ~ Unknown

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. ~ A.A. Milne

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ~ Albert Einstein

There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live. ~ John Adams

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. ~ Thomas Carlyle

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A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. ~ Scripture - Psalm 90:2 and 4

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. ~ Samuel Butler

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ~ Victor Hugo

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. ~ Raymond Edman

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ~ Mason Cooley

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila

God be in my head and in my understanding. God be in mine eyes and in my looking. God be in my mouth and in my speaking. God be in mine heart and in my thinking. God be at my end and in my departing ~ Traditional – English

God has no other hands than ours. ~ Dorothee Soulle

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars. ~ Martin Luther

God's answers are wiser than our prayers. ~ Unknown

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ~ Bill Sunday

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~ Dr. Thomas Fuller

I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. ~ World War II refugee

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo

I know that God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. ~ Mother Teresa

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln

I urge, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone - for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ Scripture - 1 Timothy 2:1-2

I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details. ~ Albert Einstein

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life. ~ Eugene Peterson

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ~ Henry Christopher Bailey

In your hearts, set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. ~ Scripture - 1 Peter 3:15:

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow. ~ Theodore Epp

Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Scripture - II Peter 1:5-8

Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ~ Ernest Renan

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith. ~ Adel Bestavros

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ~ St Augustine

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated ~ Howard Nemerov

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws a thing which can never be demonstrated. ~ Tyron Edwards

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein

Since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. ~ Scripture - Romans 1:20

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. ~ Scripture - Galatians 5:22

There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. Dear God, he cried out, look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in the world. Why don't you send help? God responded, I did send help. I sent you. ~ David J. Wolpe

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ~ Scripture - Galatians 3:28

This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. ~ Scripture - Romans 6:13

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. ~ Scripture - Ephesians 2:10 * New Quote *

When the solution is simple, God is answering. ~ Albert Einstein

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ~ Carl Sandburg

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, a home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for. ~ Unknown

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~ George Santayana

A grandma is a mom with extra frosting. ~ Unknown

A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. ~ Alan Marshall Beck

A man can have no greater strength than to know his mother, his sweetheart, or his wife, has confidence in him and loves him. ~ Nathan Tanner

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. ~ Unknown

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life. ~ Maureen Hawkins

Being a mother is like taking your heart out of your chest and watching it walk around. ~ Unknown

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~ Lydia M. Child

Boys are found everywhere on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. ~ Alan Marshall Beck

Boys are meant for kisses and hugs, For watching rainbows and catching bugs, For sharing all of your favorite things, For books to read and songs to sing. ~ Unknown

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ~ Charles Wadsworth

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ~ Emilie Buchwald

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso

Every mother knows her favorite child was the one who deserved love the least... but needed it the most. ~ Erma Louise Bombeck

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ~ Matt Groening

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.

Girls are giggles with freckles all over them ~ Unknown

Good women - may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them! ~ Unknown

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~ George Burns

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ~ Bill Cosby

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~ Anna Quindlen

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. ~ Rachel Carson

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. ~ Maya Angelou

If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma. ~ Theresa Bloomingdale

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair. ~ Auguste Napier

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. ~ V.S. Pritchett

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ~ Anne Sexton

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. ~ Robert Heinlein

My dear child/ You are the poem / I dreamed of writing / the masterpiece / I longed to paint. /You are the shining star / I reached for In my / ever hopeful quest / for life fulfilled. /You are my child. / Now with all things / I am blessed. ~ Unknown

Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, but still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute you didn't grow under my heart, but in it. ~ Fleur Conkling Heylinger

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother! ~ Lee Yatan

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. ~ Richard Bach

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

She will fill our lives with sunshine... and our hearts with love. ~ Unknown

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there, defending you against all comers. ~ Pam Brown

Sometimes, said Pooh, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. ~ A.A. Milne

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional. ~ Laurie Colwin

The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day ~ O. A. Battista

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ~ Denis Waitley

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. ~ Robert Frost

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority. ~ Jean Caldwell

The phrase working mother is redundant. ~ Jane Sellman

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man with human flesh. ~ Frank Herbert

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ~ Anatole Broyard * New Quote *

To be a successful father...there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. ~ Ernest Hemingway

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. ~ John Irving

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. ~ Talmud

Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering. ~ Elaine Heffner

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A friend comes to mind with a smile and memories of a sweet fragrance, like a rose pressed in the pages of a favorite book. ~ Unknown

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~ Unknown

A friend is a rare book of which but one copy is made. ~ Unknown

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~ Unknown

“Are we going to be friends forever?” asked Piglet. “Even longer,” Pooh answered. ~ A.A. Milne

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice. ~ James Howell

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Alber Calmus

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~ Virgina Woolf

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~ J.R.R Tolkien

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.

Friends are like quiet angels; they lift you up when your wings have forgotten how to fly. ~ Unknown

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one. ~ Clive Staples Lewis

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life. ~ Mark Twain

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. ~ Walt Whitman

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~ Robert Brault

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. ~ Euripides

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

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! ~ Emily Dickinson

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~ Alice Walker

The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. ~ Abraham Lincoln * New Quote *

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. ~ George Santayana

'Tis glad I am and glad I'll be that you like knowin' the likes of me! ~ Traditional - Irish

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And did you get what you wanted in this life even so? I did And what is it you wanted? To call myself beloved To feel myself beloved on the earth. ~ Raymond Carver

And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed] ~ Oscar Wilde

Because I have loved life I shall have no sorrow to die. ~ Amelia Burr

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. ~ Grace Hansen

Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today. ~ James Dean

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. ~ Voltaire

Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. ~ Hans Christian Anderson

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. ~ George Washington Carver

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. ~ E.B. White

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~ Agatha Christie

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ~ Robert Frost

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. ~ Margaret Bonnano

It takes a long time to grow young. ~ Pablo Picasso.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~ E.E. Cummings

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. ~ Oscar Wilde

Life is fragile, handle with prayer. ~ Unknown

Life is a promise, fulfill it. ~ Mother Teresa

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it's just a game. ~ Nerijus Stasiulis

May you live all the days of your life. ~ Jonathon Swift

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~ Susan Ertz

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~Edward Everett Hale

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ~ Antonio Porchia

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~ Joseph Addison

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived this is to have succeeded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. ~ John Dryden

Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. ~ Ernest Dimnet

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. ~ Thomas Crum

Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. ~ MacRina Wiederkehr

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A day without you is like a day without honey. ~ A.A. Milne

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies... She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. ~ Scripture - Proverbs 31: 10 27-28

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~ Rose Dorothy Franken

Don't run when I push you away. It's then that I need you the most. ~ Unknown

Each of us represents a star in heaven. Sometimes we shine with the rest. Sometimes we twinkle alone And sometimes, when we least expect it.. We make someone's dreams come true ~ Unknown

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. ~ Mark Twain

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. ~ Christian Morgenstern

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ~ Albert Einstein

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

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~ A.A. Milne

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ~ Erich Fromm

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. ~ Joseph Barth

Now you will feel no rain for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there will be no loneliness for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons but there are three lives before you: his life, her life and your life together. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into your days together. And may all your days be good and long upon the Earth. ~ Traditional - Apache

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. ~ Isha McKenzie-Mavings

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~ George Moore

Our lives are shaped by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us. ~ Unknown

Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ~ Virgina Woolf

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Sometimes we don't build walls to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ~ Unknown

T’was her thinking of others that made you think of her. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. ~ Houssaye

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The bravest thing that men do is love women. ~ Mort Sahl

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. ~ Frederick Buechner

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved , loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~ Victor Hugo

Then we sat on the edge of the earth, our feet dangling over the side, and marveled that we had found each other. ~ Unknown

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

To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ~ Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. ~ Emily Dickinson

We are a little weird, and life is a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~ Unknown

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him. ~ Alan Marshall Beck

Whatever souls are made of ~ yours and mine are the same. ~ Emily Bronte

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~ John Ruskin

Where thou art, that is home. ~ Emily Dickinson

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A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic woman gets him. ~ Helen Rowland

A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~ Henry Louis Mencken

A man can have no greater strength than to know his mother, his sweetheart, or his wife, has confidence in him and loves him. ~ Nathan Tanner

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. ~ Henry Louis Mencken

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. ~ Thomas C. Haliburton

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. ~ Honoré de Balzac

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn't have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don't have what it takes.” ~ Clare Boothe Luce

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. ~ Caroline Rhea

God made woman from man's rib-not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be walked upon, but from his side to be his partner in life, from under his arm to be protected by him and by his heart to be loved by him. ~ Unknown

Good women - may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them! ~ Unknown

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. ~ Abigail Adams

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ~ Tallulah Bankhead

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. ~ Gloria Steinem

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. ~ Guiseppe Mazzini

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. ~ Susan B. Anthony

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. ~ Mary Catherine Bateson

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother! ~ Lee Yatan

The bravest thing that men do is love women. ~ Mort Sahl

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. ~ George Santayana

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. ~ Margo Kaufman

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. ~ Natalie Wood

The phrase working mother is redundant. ~ Jane Sellman

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. ~ Honoré de Balzac

Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering. ~ Elaine Heffner

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A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. ~ Unknown

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~ Unknown

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing ~ Joey Adams

All the greatest things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. ~ Marcel Proust

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. ~ Caroline Rhea

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? ~ George Price

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ~ Thomas Szasz

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. ~ G. B. Burgin

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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ~ Unknown

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.~ Ray Bradbury

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies. ~ Bill Bulko

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. ~ Kristin Wilson (Nintendo Inc. 1989)

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ~ Isaac Asimov

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~ Isaac Newton

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. ~ Albert Einstein

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ~ Stephen Hawking

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. ~ Isaac Newton

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music. ~ Albert Einstein

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. ~ Edward Chilton

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. ~ P.L. Berger

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. ~ Paul Dirac

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. ~ Konrad Lorenz

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ~ Albert Einstein

Love is a matter of Chemistry, but sex is a matter of Physics. ~ Unknown

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. ~ Lisa Hoffman

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. ~ Edward Shepherd Mead * New Quote *

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. ~ Michael Sinz

Reason, Observation, and Experience: the holy trinity of Science. ~ Robert Gree Ingersoll

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated ~ Howard Nemerov

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws a thing which can never be demonstrated. ~ Tyron Edwards

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match. ~ Isaac Asimov

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. ~ Putt's Law

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' ~ Isaac Asimov

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. ~ Albert Einstein

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. ~ David Russell * New Quote *

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Always be the first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~ Judy Garland

Beware the fury of a patient man. ~ John Dryden

Do not forget little kindnesses, and do not remember small faults. ~ Traditional - Chinese

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Til your good gets better and your better gets best! ~ Unknown

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. ~ George Washington Carver

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. ~ Anthony Robbins *New Quote *

Never apologize for feelings. If you do, you are apologizing for the truth. ~ Unknown.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. ~ Sam Brown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. ~ Nathaniel Branden

Sometimes when you feel little, useless, beaten down and depressed; always remember that you were once the fastest and the most victorious sperm in your group. ~ Unknown

The greatest power is often simple patience. ~ E. Joseph Cossman

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything value. ~ Thomas Paine

Write the bad things that are done to you in the sand but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. ~ Traditional - Arabian

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. ~ Pearl Buck

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. ~ Albert Einstein

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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. ~ James Gould Cozzens

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ~ Robert Heinlein

All decorating is about memories. ~ Mrs. Henry Parish

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~ Unknown

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. ~ Blake Clark * New Quote *

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. ~ Frank Zappa

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
~ Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" * New Quote *

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~ Lydia M. Child

Getting caught is the mother of invention. ~ Robert Byrne

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. ~ Leonard Louis Levinson * New Quote *

I always have a quotation for everything it saves original thinking. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ~ Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday * New Quote *

I bet you'll never remember the things I'll never forget. ~ Unknown

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. ~ Woody Allen

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; & I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ~ J.R.R Tolkien

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. ~ Mitch Hedberg, Comedy Central Presents * New Quote *

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. ~ Pearl Buck

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ~ Marlene Dietrich

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~ Douglas Adams

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. ~ Sylvia Plath

I think it would be a good idea. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
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I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. ~ Steven Wright

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. ~ Shel Silverstein

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? ~ Harry Shearer

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. ~ Bill Vaughan

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ~ Katherine Hepburn

If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! ~ Shel Silverstein

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. ~ Margaret Thatcher

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us - don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. ~ Emily Dickinson

In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes. ~ Mogens Jallberg * New Quote *

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. ~ Ovid

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ~ Neil Gaiman,

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. ~ David Brin

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ~ John Andrew Holmes

It takes a long time to grow young. ~ Pablo Picasso.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~ E.E. Cummings

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. ~ Tallulah Bankhead

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~ A.A. Milne

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~ Will Durant

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. ~ Woody Allen

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable. ~ Fran Lebowitz

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth. ~ Shel Silverstein

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. ~ Victor Borge

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ~ Hannah Arendt

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting. ~ Unknown

The time is you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~ Bertrand Russell

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ~ Quenton Crisp

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. ~ James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. ~ Mark Twain

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. ~ Gore Vidal * New Quote *

To fill the hour - that is happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. ~ Traditional - Scottish

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ~ Jeremy Irons.

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~ Anais Nin

What luck for rulers that men do not think. ~ Adolf Hitler

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. ~ Edward Flaherty