Monday, November 24, 2008

Miscellaneous quotes

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.-Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

You must believe in free will; there is no choice.-Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
-Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.-Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

Useless laws weaken necessary laws.-Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from.
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.-C. Northcote Parkinson

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. Elias Root Beadle

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? -George Wallace

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.-Oscar Wilde

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, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.-H. Jackson Brown

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.-Walt Disney

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life quotes

Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. -Danish proverb

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. -Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. -Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.-Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. -W. Edwards Deming

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best-W. Edwards Deming

All my life I've wanted to be someone;I guess I should have been more specific.-Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin (1939- )

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

We think in generalities, but we live in details.-Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. -Diego Marchi

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inspirational quotes

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford

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

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
-Richard Bach (Illusions)

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. -Jesse Jackson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. -Maya Angelou

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw

The journey is the reward. -Chinese Proverb

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kubler Ross

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

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent. -President Dwight Eisenhower

Only those who can see the invisible, can accomplish the impossible.
Patrick Snow, Author of 'Creating Your Own Destiny'

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. -Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Philosopher)

Thought is action in rehearsal. -Sigmund Freud

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. -Gerry Spence

The only way around is through. -Robert Frost

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. -Bill Clinton

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." -Abraham Lincoln

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. -Albert Einstein

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

friendship quotes

My friends are my estate.~Emily Dickinson

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.~Walter Winchell

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

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.~Anais Nin

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.~Aristotle

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.~Friedrich Nietzsche

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. ~Albert Caymus

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.~Abraham Lincoln

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.~Ralph Waldo Emerson

true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ~La Rochefoucauld

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -- Cindy Lew

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you,and still likes you."-Elbert Hubbard

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." - Jewish saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle

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.-- Albert Camus

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln

Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." - Apocrypha

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.-- Anonymous

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. -- Claude Mermet

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracian

"Friendship needs no words..."- Dag Hammarskjold.

"Friends are the sunshine of life." - John Hay (1871)

"The best mirror is an old friend." -George Herbert

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-Walter Winchell

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. -- Samuel Paterson

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.-- John Evelyn

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.-- Swedish proverb

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

Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." -- Pietro Aretino (1537)

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc

"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end." -- Robert Alan

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love quotes

"If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." -Anonymous

"A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one." -Guy De Maupassant

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." -James Baldwin

"If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee."
-Anne Bradstreet

"The best proof of love is trust." -Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
-Erich Fromm

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu

If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." -Anonymous

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one." -Guy De Maupassant

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." -James Baldwin

"Love builds bridges where there are none." -R. H. Delaney

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton

"If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee."
-Anne Bradstreet

"The best proof of love is trust." -Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -Anonymous

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." -Smiley Blanton

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -Anonymous

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." -Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." -Hellen Keller

"Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"-Richard Bach

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." -Mistinguette

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." -Erich Fromm

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." -Javan

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu


Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
~ Mother Teresa

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
~ William Wordsworth

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
~ UB40

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion
that each include the other,
each is enriched by the other.
~ Felix Adler

Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
~ Steve Winwood


Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
~ Cathy Carlyle


Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
~ Benjamin Disraeli


Find the person who will love you because of your differences and
not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
~ Leo Buscaglia


Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There?s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger


To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others, to give one's self...
this is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu


The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel


Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others' love to us.
~ Thomas Trahern


Love is always bestowed as a gift --
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
~ Leo Buscaglia


It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
~ William Thackeray


Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
~ Fulton J. Sheen


We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place
in ourselves for those who love us.
~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux


Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard


The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ Victor Hugo

There is no instinct like that of the heart.
~ Lord Byron


We are all born for love...
it is the principle existence and it's only end.
~ Disraeli


To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell


We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch


May no gift be too small to give,
nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
and tied with love.
~ L.O. Baird


Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
~ Mother Teresa


The dedicated life is the life worth living.
You must give with your whole heart.
~ Anne Dillard


Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen


What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
~ Henry Ward Beecher


Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones


The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity-love. And the story of a love is not importrnity.
~ Helen Hayes
ant-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of ete

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