Archives - April 2004 Quotes

Marriage should be a duet -
when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
Marriage

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the
intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzler
Martyrs

Man's maturity: to have regained the
seriousness that he had as a child at play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Maturity




There is hardly any activity, any enterprise,
which is started out with such tremendous
hopes and expectations, and yet
which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm
Love

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense.
All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Buddha Gotama
Lust

The greatest gift you can give another
is the purity of your attention.
Richard Moss
Listening

An idea can turn to dust or magic,
depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach
Magic



Imagination was given to man
to compensate him for what
he is not; a sense of humor
to console him for what he is
Francis Bacon
Imagination

The things which are most important
don't always scream the loudest.
Bob Hawke
Importance

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone
as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean,
you will never be strong or original. Stand alone
or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden
Inaction

Children show scars like medals.
Lovers use them as secrets to
reveal. A scar is what happens
when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
Injury

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing,
not a 95 percent thing; either
you have it or you don't.
Peter Scotese
Integrity

A taste for irony has kept more hearts
from breaking than a sense
of humor for it takes irony to appreciate
the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
Irony

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love 
under the pretence of keeping it alive. 
Havelock Ellis
Jealousy

Great joy, especially after a sudden change 
of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells
rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding
Joy

Good judgement comes from experience. 
Experience comes from bad judgement. 
Jim Horning
Judgement

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of
weakness and despair, but manifestations
of strength and resolutions. 
Kahlil Gibran
Kindness

Today we are afraid of simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't
believe in the good old words because we
don't believe in good old values anymore.
And that's why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang
Kindness

Man is the only animal that laughs
and weeps; for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference
between what things are
and what they might of been.
William Hazlitt
Laughter

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would
literally unite their souls, because the spirit
was said to be carried in one's breath.
Eve Glicksman
Kisses

A life of leisure and a life of laziness
are two different things.
Benjamin Franklin
Laziness

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying
much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
Learning

Life can only be understood back-
wards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
Life

People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Jean Toomer
Limitations

Gradually I came to realize that people will
more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the
taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Martha Gellhorn
Lies

Losing an illusion makes you
wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne
Losing

Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare
Loss