New Year

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~ Charles Lamb

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ~ Jean Paul

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. ~ Franz Grillparzer

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. ~ Cyril Cusack

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. ~ Helen Keller

Celebrate what you want to see more of. ~ Tom Peters

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? ~ Aeschylus

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy. ~ James Lafferty

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

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. ~ Mark Twain

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

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.  Middle age is when you're forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn


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


Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.  ~Author Unknown


A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.  ~Author Unknown


Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  ~Benjamin Franklin


No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.  It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.  It is the nativity of our common Adam.  ~Charles Lamb


New Year's Day is every man's birthday.  ~Charles Lamb


Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.  ~John Selden


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


The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.  ~Hamilton Wright Mabie


The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!  ~Edward Payson Powell


Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  ~Oprah Winfrey


Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850


The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk.  This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.  ~P.J. O'Rourke


Every man should be born again on the first day of January.  Start with a fresh page.  Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


New Year's Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.  ~Mark Twain


The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.  ~George William Curtis


For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"


We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce


Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.  Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.  ~Mark Twain


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.  ~Author Unknown


And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
~Thomas Hood


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.  ~Brooks Atkinson


Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
~Walter Scott


Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.  ~Oscar Wilde


Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther


A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.  ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885


But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty?  I live according to twenty-year-old habits.  ~Andre Gide


When then is lost, as time is by,
we look upon the yearly wine
to see our substance in the lees.
Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave?
To look for clear and faithful sense,
that gives a bodied stance bouquet,
then see the vat at mirror's face
and find in it, the yearly pace.
~E. Marshall, Vintner Epilogue (Happy Old Year)


Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.  ~Dave Beard


I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you?  Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system.  Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover.  I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.  ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary


New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.  ~Jay Leno


We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
~John Greenleaf Whittier


One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things.  ~John Burroughs


Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.  ~Charles Lamb


A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest


It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.  ~William Thomas


We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.  ~Ellen Goodman


May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.  ~Joey Adams


He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
~F.M. Knowles


The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year.  It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.  Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions.  Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.  ~G.K. Chesterton


I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.  ~Henry Moore


Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.  Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.  ~Thomas Mann


I made no resolutions for the New Year.  The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.  ~Anaïs Nin


Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time?  I want an interregnum.  The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?  ~John Dos Passos, 1917


New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.  ~Mark Twain


Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter


The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel.  Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.  ~W.H. Auden

Relationship

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.  ~Margaret Mead


Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.  ~Swedish Proverb


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough


There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Don't smother each other.  No one can grow in the shade.  ~Leo Buscaglia


For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859


If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?  ~Stephen Levine


Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
~Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade of Lost Objects," 1954


Assumptions are the termites of relationships.  ~Henry Winkler


I like her because she smiles at me and means it.  ~Anonymous


Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.  ~Miles Franklin


In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.  ~Frederick Buechner


Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.  ~Anonymous


Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  "Pooh!" he whispered.  "Yes, Piglet?"  "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.  "I just wanted to be sure of you."  ~A.A. Milne


I felt it shelter to speak to you.  ~Emily Dickinson


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


Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.  ~Dinah Shore


Lust is easy.  Love is hard.  Like is most important.  ~Carl Reiner

Sex

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.  ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988


The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.  ~William B. Yeats


Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.  ~Author Unknown


Flies spread disease - keep yours zipped.  ~Author Unknown


Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.  ~Woody Allen


Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love.  ~Woody Allen


For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.  ~Jay Leno


Sex is not the answer.  Sex is the question.  "Yes" is the answer.  ~Swami X


Men get laid, but women get screwed.  ~Quentin Crisp


It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.  ~Elizabeth Taylor


When a guy goes to a hooker, he's not paying her for sex, he's paying her to leave.  ~Author Unknown


A dirty book is rarely dusty.  ~Author Unknown


Sex.  In America an obsession.  In other parts of the world a fact.  ~Marlene Dietrich


When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment.  When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.  ~Author Unknown


Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things:  One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell.  The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.  ~Butch Hancock


To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.  ~Don Schrader


The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.  ~William H. Masters


There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered:  entertainment, food, and affection.  It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection.  As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately.  When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating.  Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.  ~Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour


No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.  ~Abraham Lincoln


My reaction to porn films is as follows:  After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw.  After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.  ~Erica Jong, Playboy Magazine, September 1975


Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.  ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935


What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.  ~Henry Fielding


Sex is God's joke on human beings.  ~Bette Davis


Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.  ~Woody Allen


Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
~Robert Herrick, "Abstinence"


Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull.  It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all.  Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.  ~Henry Louis Mencken


AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences:  suicide.  Or murder.  ~Susan Sontag


There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex.  People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.  ~Elton John


There's nothing better than good sex.  But bad sex?  A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.  ~Billy Joel


The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.  ~William Osler


The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.  ~Truman Capote


Sex relieves tension - love causes it.  ~Woody Allen


If you use the electric vibrator near water, you will come and go at the same time.  ~Louise Sammons


Men wake up aroused in the morning.  We can't help it.  We just wake up and we want you.  And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?"  It's because we can't see you.  We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.  ~Andy Rooney


I think I could fall madly in bed with you.  ~Author Unknown


Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.  ~Groucho Marx


Sex is emotion in motion.  ~Mae West


Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
~John Donne, Extasy


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


I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.  ~John Waters


For women the best aphrodisiacs are words.  The G-spot is in the ears.  He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.  ~Isabel Allende


Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.  ~Woody Allen


Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.  ~Woody Allen

Technology

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.  ~Mark Kennedy


Inventor:  A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison


It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.  ~Albert Einstein


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923


For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.  ~Richard P. Feynman


If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.  ~Frank Lloyd Wright


Soon silence will have passed into legend.  Man has turned his back on silence.  Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.  His anxiety subsides.  His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.  ~Jean Arp


Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.  ~Aldous Huxley


Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.  ~Max Frisch


Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?  ~Al Boliska


Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo:  not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.  ~Lewis Mumford


God never made his work for man to mend.
~John Dryden


It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.  ~T.S. Eliot, about radio


Technology... is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.  ~C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971


Don't get smart alecksy
With the galaxy
Leave the atom alone.
~E.Y. Harburg, "Leave the Atom Alone," 1957


The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith


The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing.  Not so with technology.  ~E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973


I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.  ~John F. Kennedy


The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.  ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations:  Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970


This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.  ~Jonas Salk


Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.  ~J.K. Rowling


As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.  ~From the movieDie Hard 2, spoken by the character John McClane regarding technological advances, screenplay by Steven E. de Souza and Doug Richardson, based on the novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager


I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!  ~Author Unknown


The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.  ~Karl Marx


The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.  ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988


When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.  ~Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966


We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith


I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.  The transfer is not paying off.  Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.  ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999


Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.  ~Anonymous email sig line


Once upon a time we were just plain people.  But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems.  Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.  ~Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987


I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.  ~E.F. Schumacher


Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.  ~Robert M. Pirsig


It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.  ~Pearl S. Buck


The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.  ~B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969


The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.  ~Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.  ~Arnold Glasow


Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.  ~R. Buckminster Fuller


The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.  ~Havelock Ellis


The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog.  The man will be there to feed the dog.  The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.  ~Warren G. Bennis


It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.  ~John Stuart Mill


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  ~Arthur C. Clarke


You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.  ~Walter Lippmann


We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.  ~Carl Sagan


Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.  ~Eric Hoffer


We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.  We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.  This is a prescription for disaster.  We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.  ~Carl Sagan


Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.  ~Alfred North Whitehead


Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.  ~Erich Fromm


Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.  ~Alan C. Kay


Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.  ~Henry David Thoreau


For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.  ~Alice Kahn


The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.  ~Sydney J. Harris

Thank You

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.  ~Malayan Proverb


Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.  ~David Thomas


Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell


Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.  ~G.B. Stern


I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.  ~William Shakespeare


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.  ~John E. Southard


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  ~G.K. Chesterton


I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.  ~Author Unknown


The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.  ~Oscar Wilde


Gratitude is the memory of the heart.  ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.  ~Author Unknown


Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  ~Mark Twain


How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston


We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  ~Thornton Wilder


I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.  ~Benjamin Disraeli


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.  ~Author Unknown


Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.  ~William Feather

Valentine's Day

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


When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.  ~English saying used on poesy rings


Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein


I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.  ~Author Unknown


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


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


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.  ~Author Unknown


I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash


Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.  ~Author Unknown


Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.  ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


We are all a little weird and life's 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.  ~Author Unknown


Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare


kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown


Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde


In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown


Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  ~Robert Browning


Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.  ~George Moore


We loved with a love that was more than love.  ~Edgar Allan Poe


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.  ~Ben Hecht


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.  ~Henry Van Dyke


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


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"


I've fallen in love many times... always with you.  ~Author Unknown


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


What I need to live has been given to me by the earth.  Why I need to live has been given to me by you.  ~Author Unknown


I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.  ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Take away love and our earth is a tomb.  ~Robert Browning


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.  ~Zora Neale Hurston


Love is a game that two can play and both win.  ~Eva Gabor


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.  ~Author Unknown


Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts.  ~Anonymous, winner of February 2011 quotegarden Twitter create your own quote contest


Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.  ~Jim Gaffigan


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.  ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.  ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.  ~Christopher Paul Rubero


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.  ~Latin Proverb


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.  ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  ~Plato


True love stories never have endings.  ~Richard Bach


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.  ~Zelda Fitzgerald


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.  ~Ovid


Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.  ~Author Unknown


Sometimes we make love with our eyes.  Sometimes we make love with our hands.  Sometimes we make love with our bodies.  Always we make love with our hearts.  ~Author Unknown


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.  ~Margaret Atwood


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


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.  ~Author Unknown


Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law.  ~Boethius,The Consolation of Philosophy


Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.  ~Frank A. Clark


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


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.  ~Swedish Proverb


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre


How did it happen that their lips came together?  How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill?  A kiss, and all was said.  ~Victor Hugo


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.  ~John Bulwer


Love is not singular except in syllable.  ~Marvin Taylor


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.  ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)


Love me and the world is mine.  ~David Reed


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.  ~Robert Frost


Love is the poetry of the senses.  ~Honoré de Balzac


Come live in my heart and pay no rent.  ~Samuel Lover


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked.  ~Erich Segal


Love is what you've been through with somebody.  ~James Thurber, quoted inLife magazine, 1960


Love is being stupid together.  ~Paul Valery


For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.  ~William Shakespeare


My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders


Love is the greatest refreshment in life.  ~Pablo Picasso


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.  ~Pearl Bailey


Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"


Falling in love is so hard on the knees.  ~Aerosmith


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  ~Voltaire


The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.  ~Author Unknown


The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.  ~Stephen King


My whole heart for my whole life.  ~French saying used on poesy rings


Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.  ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon


Love is metaphysical gravity.  ~R. Buckminster Fuller


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Wise Words

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.  ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420


You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull


What saves a man is to take a step.  Then another step.  It is always the same step, but you have to take it.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


Don't wait for the Last Judgment.  It happens every day.  ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956


Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.  ~Henry David Thoreau


Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!  ~Allison Gappa Bottke


Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.  Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.  Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.  ~Jim Rohn


In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.  ~Liz Armbruster, onwww.robertbrault.com


See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.  ~Pope John XXIII


Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.  ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros


Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?  ~Coleman Cox


Laziness will cause you pain.  ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense


If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.  ~Toni Morrison


Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics.  Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.  ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949


Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.  ~Author Unknown


Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.  ~Brecht


[O]wning your burdens is half the battle.  ~From the television show Scrubs


Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.  ~Victor Hugo


We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.  ~William James


You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.  ~Leo Aikman


Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.  Seek discipline and find your liberty.  ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles


The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.  ~Plato


Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.  ~Jonathan Kozel


Tough and funny and a little bit kind:  that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.  ~Frances Willard


Always when judging
Who people are,
Remember to footnote
The words "So far."
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.  ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr


A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners.  ~Erika Harris,lifeblazing.com


People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them.  They cannot go right, unless you let them.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Excess on occasion is exhilirating.  It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.  ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938


The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.  ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King


I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.  ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"


Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.  ~Samuel Butler


Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  ~Theodore Roosevelt


Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about.  But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.  ~Alice Walker,The Color Purple, 1982


Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.  ~Elbert Hubbard


On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved:  "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.  Yea, let there be daily renovation."  ~Confucian Analects


The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.  ~Jimmy Johnson


What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.  ~Samuel Johnson


To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.  ~John W. Gardner


There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.  ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)


Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.  ~William Hale White


Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter


Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.  ~African Proverb


One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.  ~Odell Shepherd


Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right.  Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


The important thing is this:  To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.  ~Charles DuBois


Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.  ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.  ~John Lennon


It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.  ~Albert Einstein


Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.  ~Charles Dickens


We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


When you start treating people like people, they become people.  ~Paul Vitale


Be kind to your shadow.  ~Rebecca Lawless


I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older.  But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do.  ~From the television show Scrubs


The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.  ~Shiloh Morrison


If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf


Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.  ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life


Never explain.  Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.  ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911


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


Whatever you are be a good one.  ~Abraham Lincoln


It's better to fight for something than against something.  ~Author Unknown


The day will happen whether or not you get up.  ~John Ciardi


Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with.  Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.  ~George R. Kirkpatrick


One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.  ~Oscar Wilde


Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds.  ~Mikhael Dominico


Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.  ~Chinese Proverb


When you live in reaction, you give your power away.  Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.  ~N. Smith


When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak.  Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~Author Unknown


Promise only what you can deliver.  Then deliver more than you promise.  ~Author Unknown


All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.  ~Epictetus


Always watch where you are going.  Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.  ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne


Don't compromise yourself.  You're all you've got.  ~Janis Joplin


Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.  ~Albert Einstein


The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu


Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.  ~Albert Schweitzer


Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.  ~Robert Frost


What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed,become.  But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.  ~Tom Stoppard


I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy.  ~Betsy Cañas Garmon,www.wildthymecreative.com


Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.  ~Robert Charles Whitehead


Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched.  ~Author Unknown


The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.  ~S.A. Sachs


Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.  ~Oscar Wilde


It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.  ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979


Just be ordinary and nothing special.  Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down.  The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.  ~Bruce Lee


Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.  ~Doug Horton


To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.  ~Hippocrates


Work out your own salvation.  Do not depend on others.  ~Buddha


Make somebody happy today.  Mind your own business.  ~Ann Landers


Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour.  ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?  ~Abraham Lincoln


Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say.  "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."  ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954


There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.  ~James Thurber


The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"  ~Oprah Winfrey


Don't get your knickers in a knot.  Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.  ~Kathryn Carpenter


Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.  ~G.C. Lichtenberg


Being loved by all is little fun
Unless you're also loved by one.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.  ~Frederick W. Faber


Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.  ~Stanislaw Lec


Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Don't despise empiric truth.  Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.  ~Martin H. Fischer


Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart.  Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


The best way to predict your future is to create it.  ~Peter Drucker


You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.  ~Irish Proverb


Beware of a man of one book.  ~English Proverb


Never make your home in a place.  Make a home for yourself inside your own head.  You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.  That way it will go with you wherever you journey.  ~Tad Williams


It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.  ~Baltasar Gracian


Go with your heart, buddy.  Our brains only screw things up.  ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring"


It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.  ~Horace


Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks.  And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.  ~Henry David Thoreau


Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.  ~Swedish Proverb


The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.  ~Thomas Edison


Aspire to a lower level of harm.  ~Anonymous


I try not to kid myself.  You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.  ~Bill Veeck


You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.  ~Mick Jagger


When you lose, don't lose the lesson.  ~Author Unknown


There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.  ~John C. Collins


Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.  ~Frank Tyger


Dig the well before you are thirsty.  ~Chinese Proverb


Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.  ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.  We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.  ~W. Migner


When you throw dirt, you lose ground.  ~Texan Proverb


The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.  ~Albert Schweitzer


Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.  ~Brigham Young


Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes.  ~From the television show Scrubs


Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go.  ~Author Unknown


It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.  ~Author Unknown


The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow.  Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.  ~Author Unknown


For visions come not to polluted eyes.  ~Mary Howitt


Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Remedy it, or welcome it:  a wise man's only two choices.  ~Terri Guillemets


To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.  ~Chinese Proverb


The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool.  ~Richard Feynman


Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.  ~Joaquin de Setanti


God is good, but never dance in a small boat.  ~Irish Saying


It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.  ~Joseph Joubert


Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.  ~Mary Kay Ash


Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.  ~Robert Brault,


Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.  ~Malcolm S. Forbes


I used to believe that anything was better than nothing.  Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.  ~Glenda Jackson