Archives - September 2000 Quotes

Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm
by pretending not to be aware of it.
?Oliver Herford ( modesty )

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with
one-seventh of its bulk above water.
?Sigmund Freud ( mind )

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
?Diane Ackerman ( mystery )

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers
lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
?Stephen King ( lovers )

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship
of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are
within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to
be happy, and no one can stop him.
?Alexander Solzhenitsyn ( kinship )

Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
?Jim Horning ( judgement )

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies
with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
?Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ( intentions )

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but
because love -- any love --
reveals us in our nakedness, our misery,
our vulnerability, our nothingness.
?Cesare Pavese ( infatuation )

Heaven has a road, but no one travels it;
Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
?Chinese Proverb ( heaven )

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do,
but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
?Kahlil Gibran (generosity)

Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit.
?Peter Ustinov ( forgiveness )

You can't depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.
?Mark Twain ( focus )

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the
heart, but how much the head, can bear.
?Maria Mitchell ( endurance )

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
Destiny is made known silently.
?Agnes DeMille (destiny )

A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
?Thomas Hardy ( discretion )

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
?Rita Mae Brown ( decision )

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce
between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
?Reginald W. Kaufman ( compromise )

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that
we no longer carry the burden of resentment.
But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.
?Jack Kornfield ( burden )

When one person makes an accusation, check to be
sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those
whose case is weak who make the most clamour
?Piers Anthony ( accusations )

Forgiveness means that you do not
Hold others responsible for your experiences.
?Gary Zukav ( authors z)

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us;
we must match our aspirations with the competence,
courage and determination to succeed.
?Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ( authors x-y)

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
?Douglas Yates ( authors x-y)

If the formula for water is H2O, is the
formula for an ice cube H2O squared?
?Jane Wagner ( authors: w)