No trumpets sound when the important
decisions of our life are made.
Destiny is made known silently.
?Agnes DeMille
( subject: destiny )
All deception in the course of life is indeed
nothing else but a lie reduced to practice,
and falsehood passing from words into things.
?Robert Southey
( subject: deception )
The lover knows much more about absolute good
and universal beauty than any logician or theologian,
unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
?George Santayana
( subject: disguise )
False friends are like our shadow, keeping
close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but
leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
?Christian N. Bovee
( subject: deceit )
No trumpets sound when the important
decisions of our life are made.
Destiny is made known silently.
?Agnes DeMille
( subject: destiny )
Credit buying is much like being drunk.
The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift.
The hangover comes the day after.
?Dr. Joyce Brothers
( subject: debt )
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps
its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
?Dorothy Dix
( subject: confession )
A bone to the dog is not charity.
Charity is the bone shared with the dog,
when you are just as hungry as the dog.
?Jack London
( subject: charity )
Character is like a tree and
reputation like its shadow. The
shadow is what we think of
it; the tree is the real thing.
?Abraham Lincoln
( subject: character )
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no
man is sane who does not know how to
be insane on proper occasions.
?Henry Ward Beecher
( subject: enthusiasm )
The nice thing about egotists is that
they don't talk about other people.
?Lucille S. Harper
( subject: egotism )
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying
to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
?Malcolm S. Forbes
( subject: enjoyment )
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
?Jim Horning
( subject: experience )
If you don't want to do something,
one excuse is as good as another.
?Yiddish Proverb
( subject: excuses )
It is easier to forgive an enemy
than to forgive a friend.
?William Blake
( subject: enemy )
When you educate a man you educate
an individual; when you educate
a woman you educate a whole family.
?Robert M. MacIver
( subject: education )
I believe that any man's life will be
filled with constant and unexpected
encouragement, if he makes up his mind
to do his level best each day, and as
nearly as possible reaching the high
water mark of pure and useful living.
?Booker T Washington
( subject: encouragement )
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one,
but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
?Leo Burnett
( subject: dreams )
If you have learned how to disagree without
being disagreeable, then you have discovered
the secret of getting along -- whether it be
business, family relations, or life itself.
?Bernard Meltzer
( subjects: disagreements )
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
There is a microscopically thin line between
being brilliantly creative and acting like the most
gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
?Cynthia Heimel
( subject: doubt )
He who walks in the middle of
the road gets hit from both sides.
?George P. Shultz
( subject: diplomacy )
Love is most nearly itself when
here and now cease to matter.
?T.S. Eliot
Romance
Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.
?WH Auden
( subject: love )
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
?Mahatma Gandhi
( subject: love )
The two most misused words in the entire English
vocabulary are love and friendship.
A true friend would die for you,
so when you start counting them on one hand,
you don't need many fingers.
?Larry Flynt
( subject: love )
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use
it are scarcely conscious of it.
?Christina of Sweden
( subject : dignity )
