If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. ~Wendell Phillips, attributed
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ~Ouida
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~Author Unknown
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. ~Douglas Adams
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ~Barbara Walters
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ~Frank A. Clark
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. ~Dolley Madison
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends. ~Benjamin Franklin
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~Shana Alexander
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ~F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms
Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ~John Tudor
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. ~Liz Smith
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. ~Benjamin Franklin
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
~Edward Wallis Hoch
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared. ~Erica Jong
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. ~Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon I, Maxims
The biggest liar in the world is They Say. ~Douglas Malloch
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1735
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ~Winston Churchill
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Diplomacy Quotes
Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. ~Daniele Vare
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ~Charles de Gaulle
Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
~Bisaac Goldberg
When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat. ~Author Unknown
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion. ~Harold MacMillan
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ~Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ
Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills. ~Author Unknown
I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock
Emotions Quotes
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks. ~Una Stannard
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~John Sterling
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ~Andre Gide
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein
Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy. ~Jareb Teague
As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks. ~Una Stannard
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~John Sterling
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ~Andre Gide
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein
Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy. ~Jareb Teague
As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie
Decisions Quotes
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ~Rita Mae Brown
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~Roy Disney
Choices are the hinges of destiny. ~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras
Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. ~Lord Mansfield
Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. ~Brendan Francis
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. ~Author Unknown
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
Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~David Russell
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~Herman Broch
Indecision becomes decision with time. ~Author Unknown
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ~Anthony Robbins
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore
Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. ~Anso Coetzer
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ~T.S. Eliot
Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author Unknown
Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. ~Author Unknown
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~Denis Waitley
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~Roy Disney
Choices are the hinges of destiny. ~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras
Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. ~Lord Mansfield
Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. ~Brendan Francis
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. ~Author Unknown
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
Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~David Russell
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~Herman Broch
Indecision becomes decision with time. ~Author Unknown
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ~Anthony Robbins
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore
Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. ~Anso Coetzer
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ~T.S. Eliot
Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author Unknown
Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. ~Author Unknown
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~Denis Waitley
Daydreaming Quotes
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ~W.H. Auden
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. ~Anais Nin
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ~Antoine Rivarol
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. ~John Locke
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. ~V.V. Rozanov
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows
Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. ~Henry David Thoreau
One man's daydreaming is another man's day. ~Grey Livingston
One man's daydreaming is another man's novel. ~Grey Livingston
One man's daydreaming is another man's woman. ~Grey Livingston
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Buñuel
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. ~Steven Wright
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. ~Anais Nin
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ~Antoine Rivarol
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. ~John Locke
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. ~V.V. Rozanov
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows
Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. ~Henry David Thoreau
One man's daydreaming is another man's day. ~Grey Livingston
One man's daydreaming is another man's novel. ~Grey Livingston
One man's daydreaming is another man's woman. ~Grey Livingston
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Buñuel
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. ~Steven Wright
Compliments Quotes
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. ~Kin Hubbard
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
'Twas never merry world
Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
~William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~Wilson Mizner
I can live for two months on a good compliment. ~Mark Twain
What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverb
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity. ~John Addington Symonds
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. ~A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ~Lord Chesterfield
Current among men,
Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
~Lord Alfred Tennyson, Princess
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ~George Chapman
A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
God was just showing off when he created you. ~From the movie Keeping the Faith
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places. ~Bucky Waters, on Tom Hammonds
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
~Hartley Coleridge
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas
Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda. ~Homer Simpson
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. ~Kin Hubbard
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
'Twas never merry world
Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
~William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~Wilson Mizner
I can live for two months on a good compliment. ~Mark Twain
What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverb
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity. ~John Addington Symonds
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. ~A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ~Lord Chesterfield
Current among men,
Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
~Lord Alfred Tennyson, Princess
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ~George Chapman
A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
God was just showing off when he created you. ~From the movie Keeping the Faith
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places. ~Bucky Waters, on Tom Hammonds
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
~Hartley Coleridge
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas
Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda. ~Homer Simpson
Charm Quotes
"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ~Havelock Ellis
Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. ~Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. ~James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, about charm
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. ~Josh Billings
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~Oscar Wilde
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. ~John Mason Brown
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ~Henry Van Dyke
Forbidden things have a secret charm. ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ~John Erskine
Belief Quotes
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ~Orson Scott Card
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
He who does not know how to believe, should not know. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ~John Lancaster Spalding
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. ~Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ~Laurens van der Post
Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. ~Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932
It is easier to believe than to doubt. ~E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. ~Herbert Agar
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~Bertrand Russell
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ~Orson Scott Card
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
He who does not know how to believe, should not know. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ~John Lancaster Spalding
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. ~Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ~Laurens van der Post
Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. ~Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932
It is easier to believe than to doubt. ~E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. ~Herbert Agar
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~Bertrand Russell
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Appearance Quotes
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~Jean Cocteau
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~Maurice Chevalier
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Pretty is the queen that rules our land. ~Carrie Latet
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ~P.J. O'Rourke
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. ~Lord Chesterfield
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. ~Baltasar Gracian
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~Jean Cocteau
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~Maurice Chevalier
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Pretty is the queen that rules our land. ~Carrie Latet
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ~P.J. O'Rourke
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. ~Lord Chesterfield
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. ~Baltasar Gracian
Apologies Quotes
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence
An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown
A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~G.K. Chesterton
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. ~Author Unknown
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ~King Charles I
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach
The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology. ~Author Unknown
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown
A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~G.K. Chesterton
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. ~Author Unknown
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ~King Charles I
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach
The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology. ~Author Unknown
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Advice Quotes
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~Gordon R. Dickson
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings
The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice. ~Author Unknown
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. ~William Shakespeare
Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. ~François La Rochefoucauld
When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice. ~Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensées, 1872
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. ~Author Unknown
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. ~Author Unknown
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ~Hannah Whitall Smith
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. ~Solon
No one wants advice - only corroboration. ~John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. ~Josh Billings
Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1895
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~Cicero
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~Gordon R. Dickson
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings
The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice. ~Author Unknown
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. ~William Shakespeare
Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. ~François La Rochefoucauld
When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice. ~Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensées, 1872
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. ~Author Unknown
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. ~Author Unknown
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ~Hannah Whitall Smith
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. ~Solon
No one wants advice - only corroboration. ~John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. ~Josh Billings
Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1895
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~Cicero
Advertising Quotes
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~Steuart Henderson Britt
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ~Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ~R. Serling
When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. ~Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
~Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road," 1933
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown's Book of Political Quotations, 1982
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. ~David Ogilvy
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. ~Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America, 1974
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ~George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. ~Will Rogers
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. ~Nicholas Johnson
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~George Orwell
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ~Norman Douglas, South Wind
Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. ~Hartman Jule
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~Bill Cosby
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. ~J.B. Priestley
So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. ~Jason Love
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. ~Edgar A. Shoaff
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. ~Samuel Johnson
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~Leonard Bernstein
Advertising is only another form of statistics. ~Hartman Jule
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. ~Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964
It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. ~B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations, 1992
I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. ~Colin McEnroe
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. ~Erma Bombeck
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel Johnson
History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." ~Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988
When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. ~Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915
Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. ~Jacques Seguela
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. ~Douglas Adams
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ~Louis Kronenberger
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. ~Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ~Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ~R. Serling
When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. ~Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
~Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road," 1933
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown's Book of Political Quotations, 1982
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. ~David Ogilvy
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. ~Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America, 1974
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ~George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. ~Will Rogers
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. ~Nicholas Johnson
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~George Orwell
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ~Norman Douglas, South Wind
Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. ~Hartman Jule
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~Bill Cosby
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. ~J.B. Priestley
So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. ~Jason Love
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. ~Edgar A. Shoaff
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. ~Samuel Johnson
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~Leonard Bernstein
Advertising is only another form of statistics. ~Hartman Jule
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. ~Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964
It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. ~B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations, 1992
I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. ~Colin McEnroe
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. ~Erma Bombeck
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel Johnson
History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." ~Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988
When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. ~Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915
Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. ~Jacques Seguela
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. ~Douglas Adams
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ~Louis Kronenberger
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. ~Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Angels Quotes
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"
The Angels were all singing out of tune,
And hoarse with having little else to do,
Excepting to wind up the sun and moon
Or curb a runaway young star or two.
~Lord Byron
I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~William Blake
Angels have no philosophy but love. ~Adeline Cullen Ray
It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ~Voltaire
Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. ~Meister Eckhart
Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo
Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go -
Rank after Rank, with even feet -
And uniforms of Snow.
~Emily Dickinson
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats
All God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell
God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
~John Milton, Paradise Lost
Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter
Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels are spiritual energy. ~Alexis F. Hope
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~Jean Cocteau
Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. ~Astrid Alauda
We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ~Amethyst Snow-Rivers
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~Josh Billings
Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
~Richard Crashaw
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ~George Bernard Shaw
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas
When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
If we were all like angels, the world would be a heavenly place. ~Author Unknown
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If trouble hearing Angels song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart. ~Meriel Stelliger
Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle
An angel lost his wing,
Crooked he did fly.
~Emma Racine deFleur
Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. ~Mae West
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
Angels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. ~Jessi Lane Adams
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Adeline Cullen Ray
Angels are quite ample cause to cry... ~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
~Richard Lovelace
You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one. ~Daisey Verlaef
Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
~Richard Purdy Wilbur
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo
Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language. ~Linda Solegato
Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter. ~Author Unknown
O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
~John Milton, Comus
If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well. ~Adabella Radici
Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap. ~Grey Livingston
Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. ~Carrie Latet
Angels are never too distant to hear you. ~Author Unknown
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~Saint Theresa of Lisieux
When our mortal eyes close on this world for the last time, our angels open our spiritual eyes and escort us personally before the face of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Adeline Cullen Ray
Have you ever seen a flower down
Sometimes angels skip around
And in their blissful state of glee
Bump into a daisy or sweet pea.
~Jessi Lane Adams
If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. ~Valentine Sterling
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown
The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace. ~Levende Waters
While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. ~Author Unknown
How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels, pixies, faerie dust
Treading love and living lust.
~Jaesse Tyler
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
When we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Anyone can be an angel. ~Author Unknown
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal," Heartattack and Vine (Thanks, Paula)
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"
The Angels were all singing out of tune,
And hoarse with having little else to do,
Excepting to wind up the sun and moon
Or curb a runaway young star or two.
~Lord Byron
I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~William Blake
Angels have no philosophy but love. ~Adeline Cullen Ray
It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ~Voltaire
Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. ~Meister Eckhart
Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo
Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go -
Rank after Rank, with even feet -
And uniforms of Snow.
~Emily Dickinson
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats
All God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell
God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
~John Milton, Paradise Lost
Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter
Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels are spiritual energy. ~Alexis F. Hope
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~Jean Cocteau
Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. ~Astrid Alauda
We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ~Amethyst Snow-Rivers
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~Josh Billings
Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
~Richard Crashaw
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ~George Bernard Shaw
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas
When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
If we were all like angels, the world would be a heavenly place. ~Author Unknown
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If trouble hearing Angels song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart. ~Meriel Stelliger
Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle
An angel lost his wing,
Crooked he did fly.
~Emma Racine deFleur
Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. ~Mae West
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
Angels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. ~Jessi Lane Adams
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Adeline Cullen Ray
Angels are quite ample cause to cry... ~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
~Richard Lovelace
You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one. ~Daisey Verlaef
Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
~Richard Purdy Wilbur
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo
Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language. ~Linda Solegato
Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter. ~Author Unknown
O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
~John Milton, Comus
If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well. ~Adabella Radici
Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap. ~Grey Livingston
Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. ~Carrie Latet
Angels are never too distant to hear you. ~Author Unknown
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~Saint Theresa of Lisieux
When our mortal eyes close on this world for the last time, our angels open our spiritual eyes and escort us personally before the face of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Adeline Cullen Ray
Have you ever seen a flower down
Sometimes angels skip around
And in their blissful state of glee
Bump into a daisy or sweet pea.
~Jessi Lane Adams
If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. ~Valentine Sterling
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown
The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace. ~Levende Waters
While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. ~Author Unknown
How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels, pixies, faerie dust
Treading love and living lust.
~Jaesse Tyler
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
When we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Anyone can be an angel. ~Author Unknown
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal," Heartattack and Vine (Thanks, Paula)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Action Quotes
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke
Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown
The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~Brendan Francis
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall
Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway
Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~Author Unknown
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. ~Charles Barkley
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke
Talk doesn't cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracian
All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~Nicolas de Chamfort
The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. ~G.K. Chesterton
If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~Henry J. Kaiser
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. ~Maria Edgeworth
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960
Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez
Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. ~Grey Livingston
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ~John McPhee
Action worships the deed. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated
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 with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson
A nod,
a bow,
and a tip of the lid
to the person
who coulda
and shoulda
and did.
~Robert Brault, "A Poem Missing the Word Woulda," www.robertbrault.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford
What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~Benjamin Franklin
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? ~George Clason
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~James Baldwin
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh
Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate
When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey
The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ~William J. Lock
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~Lewis Cass
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge
Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown
The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~Brendan Francis
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall
Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway
Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~Author Unknown
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. ~Charles Barkley
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke
Talk doesn't cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracian
All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~Nicolas de Chamfort
The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. ~G.K. Chesterton
If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~Henry J. Kaiser
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. ~Maria Edgeworth
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960
Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez
Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. ~Grey Livingston
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ~John McPhee
Action worships the deed. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated
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 with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson
A nod,
a bow,
and a tip of the lid
to the person
who coulda
and shoulda
and did.
~Robert Brault, "A Poem Missing the Word Woulda," www.robertbrault.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford
What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~Benjamin Franklin
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? ~George Clason
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~James Baldwin
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh
Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate
When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey
The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ~William J. Lock
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~Lewis Cass
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge
Animals and Pets
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! ~Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. ~Nora Ephron
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin Buber
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. ~Voltaire, letter to Count Schomberg, 31 August 1769
[H]e doesn’t reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure lets you know when you hurt his instincts. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. ~Henry David Thoreau
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ~Colette
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back. ~Stephenie Geist
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~Winston Churchill
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. ~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. ~Nora Ephron
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin Buber
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. ~Voltaire, letter to Count Schomberg, 31 August 1769
[H]e doesn’t reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure lets you know when you hurt his instincts. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. ~Henry David Thoreau
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ~Colette
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back. ~Stephenie Geist
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~Winston Churchill
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. ~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Success Quotes
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
~ Henry Thoreau (19th-century individualist, author, and naturalist)
"In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing and believe in what you are doing."
~ Will Rogers (Humorist)
"Success is determined by taking the hand you were dealt and utilizing it to the very best of your ability."
~ Ty Boyd
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
~ William Feather
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
~ Abraham Lincoln (16th president of the United States)
"The successful person is prosperous because he has developed 95 percent of his ability. The failure is poor because only 5 percent of his natural talents have been utilized."
~ Charles E. Popplestone
"Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him and has satisfed his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for."
~ Woodrow Wilson (28th president of the United States)
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you can do."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet)
"Success.. seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quits."
~ Conrad Hilton (Hotel Magnate)
"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."
~ Denis Waitley
"It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; its what you put into the practice."
~ Eric Lindros
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
~ George Burns
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
~ Dale Carnegie
"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
~ Henry Ford
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."
~ Wayne Dyer (A self-development author and speaker)
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small thins, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
~ Jim Rohn (Motivational speaker, author)
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started"
~ Mark Twain (Author)
"For true success, ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"
~ James Allen (Author and lecturer on personal and business productivity)
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
~ Theodore Roosevelt
"People become really quote remarkable when they start thinking that they can do thins. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."
~ Norman Vincent Peale (Philosopher and author)
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"All successful people, men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."
~ Brian Tracy (Self-help author and international speaker)
~ Henry Thoreau (19th-century individualist, author, and naturalist)
"In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing and believe in what you are doing."
~ Will Rogers (Humorist)
"Success is determined by taking the hand you were dealt and utilizing it to the very best of your ability."
~ Ty Boyd
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
~ William Feather
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
~ Abraham Lincoln (16th president of the United States)
"The successful person is prosperous because he has developed 95 percent of his ability. The failure is poor because only 5 percent of his natural talents have been utilized."
~ Charles E. Popplestone
"Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him and has satisfed his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for."
~ Woodrow Wilson (28th president of the United States)
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you can do."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet)
"Success.. seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quits."
~ Conrad Hilton (Hotel Magnate)
"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."
~ Denis Waitley
"It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; its what you put into the practice."
~ Eric Lindros
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
~ George Burns
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
~ Dale Carnegie
"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
~ Henry Ford
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."
~ Wayne Dyer (A self-development author and speaker)
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small thins, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
~ Jim Rohn (Motivational speaker, author)
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started"
~ Mark Twain (Author)
"For true success, ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"
~ James Allen (Author and lecturer on personal and business productivity)
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
~ Theodore Roosevelt
"People become really quote remarkable when they start thinking that they can do thins. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."
~ Norman Vincent Peale (Philosopher and author)
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"All successful people, men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."
~ Brian Tracy (Self-help author and international speaker)
Self Improvement Quotes
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~ Mahatma Gandhi (Indian political and spiritual leader)
"Ask yourself the easy questions and you'll have a hard life, ask yourself the hard questions and you'll have an easier life!"
~ Peter Thomson (U.K. strategist on business and personal growth)
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~ Mahatma Gandhi (Indian political and spiritual leader)
"Ask yourself the easy questions and you'll have a hard life, ask yourself the hard questions and you'll have an easier life!"
~ Peter Thomson (U.K. strategist on business and personal growth)
Self Image Quotes
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life."
~ Dr Joyce Brothers (Psychologist)
"You cannot constantly perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."
~ Dr Joyce Brothers (Psychologist)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt (Humanitarian, former first lady)
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
~ Philips Brooks
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
~ John Wooden (NCAA Coach)
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~ John Wooden (NCAA Coach)
"Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other."
~ Dr. Maxwell Maltz
“Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become”
~ Dr. Maxwell Maltz
“Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment”
~ Dr. Maxwell Maltz
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”
~ Oscar Wilde
"Circumstances does not make the man; it reveals him to himself"
~ James Allen
~ Dr Joyce Brothers (Psychologist)
"You cannot constantly perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."
~ Dr Joyce Brothers (Psychologist)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt (Humanitarian, former first lady)
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
~ Philips Brooks
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
~ John Wooden (NCAA Coach)
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~ John Wooden (NCAA Coach)
"Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other."
~ Dr. Maxwell Maltz
“Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become”
~ Dr. Maxwell Maltz
“Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment”
~ Dr. Maxwell Maltz
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”
~ Oscar Wilde
"Circumstances does not make the man; it reveals him to himself"
~ James Allen
Relationship Quotes
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."
~ Harvey Firestone (Industrialist)
"Personal relationships are the fertile soil which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."
~ Ben Stein
"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."
~ George Shinn
"Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth."
~ George W. Crane
"There is no limit to what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit."
~ John Wooden (NCAA Coach)
"Recipe for having friends: Be one."
~ Elbert Hubbard
"The best portion of a good life is the little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
~ William Wordsworth (Famous English Poet)
"You will find as you look back upon life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love."
~ Henry Drummond
"It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, if we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul."
~ Frank Crane
"The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action."
~ Orison Swett Marden
"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
~ Joseph Priestley (18th-century British theologian, natural philosopher, and political theorist)
~ Harvey Firestone (Industrialist)
"Personal relationships are the fertile soil which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."
~ Ben Stein
"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."
~ George Shinn
"Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth."
~ George W. Crane
"There is no limit to what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit."
~ John Wooden (NCAA Coach)
"Recipe for having friends: Be one."
~ Elbert Hubbard
"The best portion of a good life is the little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
~ William Wordsworth (Famous English Poet)
"You will find as you look back upon life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love."
~ Henry Drummond
"It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, if we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul."
~ Frank Crane
"The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action."
~ Orison Swett Marden
"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
~ Joseph Priestley (18th-century British theologian, natural philosopher, and political theorist)
Peace Quotes
"Nothing can bring you piece but yourself"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)
"If we have no piece, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"
~ Mother Teresa
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
~ A.J. Muste
"It takes two to make peace."
~ John F. Kennedy
"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
~ George Washington
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
~ Jimi Hendrix
"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."
~ Norman Vincent Peale (Philosopher and author)
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher essayist, poet and lecturer)
"If we have no piece, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"
~ Mother Teresa
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
~ A.J. Muste
"It takes two to make peace."
~ John F. Kennedy
"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
~ George Washington
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
~ Jimi Hendrix
"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."
~ Norman Vincent Peale (Philosopher and author)
Motivational Quotes
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
~ Robert Francis Kennedy
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
~ Zig Ziglar
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."
~ Napoleon Hill (Author, Think and Grow Rich)
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going."
~Napoleon Hill (Author, Think and Grow Rich)
"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
~ Brian Tracy (Self-help author and international speaker)
"You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind."
~ Brian Tracy (Self-help author and international speaker)
"In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible."
~ Stuart Wilde (Author, consciousness researcher)
"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."
~ Brian Tracy (Motivational speaker and self-help author)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher, essayist, poet and lecturer)
"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
~ Henry Van Dyke
"You may be out, but never give up."
~ Mary Crowley
"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 determined derelicts. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference."
~ Calvin Coolidge (30th president of the United States)
"Endurance is the crowning quality."
~ James Russell Lowell (Poet, editor, essayist and diplomat)
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
~ Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter)
"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
~ Stephen Covey (Personal development author and speaker)
"Strong reasons make strong actions."
~ William Shakespeare
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill
"Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose."
~ John Kehoe
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain (Author)
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
~ Arthur C. Clarke
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
~ Wayne Dyer (Self-development author and speaker)
~ Robert Francis Kennedy
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
~ Zig Ziglar
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."
~ Napoleon Hill (Author, Think and Grow Rich)
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going."
~Napoleon Hill (Author, Think and Grow Rich)
"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
~ Brian Tracy (Self-help author and international speaker)
"You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind."
~ Brian Tracy (Self-help author and international speaker)
"In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible."
~ Stuart Wilde (Author, consciousness researcher)
"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."
~ Brian Tracy (Motivational speaker and self-help author)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher, essayist, poet and lecturer)
"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
~ Henry Van Dyke
"You may be out, but never give up."
~ Mary Crowley
"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 determined derelicts. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference."
~ Calvin Coolidge (30th president of the United States)
"Endurance is the crowning quality."
~ James Russell Lowell (Poet, editor, essayist and diplomat)
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
~ Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter)
"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
~ Stephen Covey (Personal development author and speaker)
"Strong reasons make strong actions."
~ William Shakespeare
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill
"Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose."
~ John Kehoe
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain (Author)
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
~ Arthur C. Clarke
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
~ Wayne Dyer (Self-development author and speaker)
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