If you get to thinking you're a person
of some influence, try ordering
somebody else's dog around.
Will Rogers
Failure is simply a few errors in
judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
The human heart feels things the eyes
cannot see and knows what
the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett
Often we have no time for our friends but
all the time in the world for our enemies.
Leon Uris
The right word may be effective, but no word was
ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't
have to say this, but I really like human
beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
Emma Thompson
Let no one ever come to you without
leaving better and happier. Be the
living expression of God's kindness:
kindness in your face, kindness in
your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
It is strange... that the years teach
us patience, that the shorter ourtime,
the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
The most remarkable thing about my
mother is that for 30 years she served
nothing but leftovers. The
original meal has never been found.
Carl Trillin
It is best to love wisely, no doubt:
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
William Thackery
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common
heap whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own.
Socrates
. . . love from one being to another can only
be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize
and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky
There are three things men can do with
women: love them, suffer for them,
or turn them into literature.
Stephen Stills
The young man who has not wept
is a savage, and the old man
who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
A slander is like a hornet;
if you can't kill it dead
the first time,
better not strike at it.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
(also known as Josh Billings)
A politician should have three hats.
One for throwing into the ring,
one for talking through, and one
for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandberg
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A single death is a tragedy,
a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
The line separating good and evil passes
not through states, nor between political
parties either - but right
through every human heart.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Anyone who proposes to do good must
not expect people to roll stones out of
his way, but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
If we were all given by magic
the power to read each other's
thoughts, I suppose the first effect would
be to dissolve all friendships.
Bertrand Russell
It is never wise to seek or wish for
another's misfortune. If malice or envy
were tangible and had a shape, it
would be the shape of a boomeran
Charley Reese
There are enough people in the
world to give you a hard time.
A friend is someone who gives
unconditional support.
J K Rowling
No one has a finer command of
language than the person
who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
