Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde O Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht O
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf O "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) O
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart O "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous O
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden O If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch O
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) O blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli O
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through O If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain O
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) O If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) O
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen O Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow O
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb O Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) O
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward O Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx O
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings O I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal O
