I don't know the key to success, |
but the key to failure is trying
to please everybody.
( author: Bill Cosby )
When music fails to agree to the ear,
to soothe the ear and the heart and the
( author: Maria Callas )
When you realize you want to spend
the rest of your life with somebody,
you want the rest of your life to
start as soon as possible.
( authors: Billy Crystal )
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
( author: Lewis Carroll )
The difference between false memories and
true ones is the same as for jewels: it is
always the false ones that look
the most real, the most brilliant.
( authors: Salvidor Dali )
The weak have one weapon: the errors of
those who think they are strong.
?George Bidault ( subject: weakness )
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a
tooth is broken in cracking them, but never
is the stomach filled with eating them.
?R. Venning ( subject: wealth )
I empathize with those who yearn
for a simpler world, for some bygone
golden age of domestic and international
tranquility. But for the mass of humanity
it is an age that never was.
?Shirley Hufstedler ( subject: yearning )
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek.
You can't see it, you can't find it with your
fingers, but you keep brushing
at it because the feel of it is irritating.
(authors: Marian Anderson )
I distrust those people who know so
well what God wants because I notice it
always coincides with their own desires.
( authors: Susan B Anthony )
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable
combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
( authors: Diane Arbus )
We give up leisure in order
that we may have leisure,
just as we go to war in order
that we may have peace
( authors: Aristotle )
People change, not necessarily
in negative ways. Sometimes goals
and intentions in life aren't aligned.
It's just choices we make in life.
Otherwise, why aren't we with the person
we were with in seventh grade?
( auhors: Kirstie Alley )
It is easier to fight for one's principles
than to live up to them.
( authors: Alfred Adler )
Never let your sense of morals get
in the way of doing what's right.
( authors: Isaac Asimov )
A mother understands
what a child does not say.
?Jewish Proverb
( subjects: mothers )
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.
Let a man be one thing or the other,
and we then know how to meet him.
( authors: Aesop )
I learned to trust my instincts and commit fully
to my choices, that there are no wrong decisions
and that even "bad" decisions aren't fatal.
( authors: Gillian Anderson )
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of
humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,
and sometimes an indirect boast.
( authors: Jane Austen )
When life knocks you to your knees, and it
will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your
knees again, as it will, well, isn't that
the best position from which to pray?
( authors: Ethel Barrymore )
If we had no winter, the spring would
not be so pleasant; if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity
would not be so welcome.
( authors: Anne Bradstreet )
Any relic of the dead is precious,
if they were valued living.
( author: Emily Bronte )
Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
( author: Mel Brooks )
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do
for them, and some won't like you at all.
( Authors: Rita Mae Brown )
Character builds slowly, but it can be
torn down with incredible swiftness.
( Author: Faith Baldwin )
Those who will not reason, are bigots,
those who cannot, are fools,
and those who dare not, are slaves.
( Author: Lord George Byron )
The most dangerous creation of any
society is that man who has nothing to lose.
( Authors: James Baldwin )
