Quotes
I have always loved quotes and here are some of the quotes that I have gathered over the years.
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost
“The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.”
Georges Bidault
“Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off,
piece by piece.”
Lisa Simpson
“Why do I have the feeling that someday I’ll be describing this to a psychiatrist?”
Lisa Simpson
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.”
Dorothy Parker
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare
“Tis with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own.”
Alexander Pope
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist. Opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities, bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859).
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Voltaire
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get less than you settled for...”
Maureen Dowd
“There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take...”
Peter F. Drucker
“No artist is ahead of his time. He ‘is’ his time; it is just that others are behind the times.”
Martha Graham
“I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed.”
Emily Dickenson
“To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to thinks makes men martyrs or reformers--or both.”
Elizabeth Charles
“If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.”
Anonymous
“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.”
Anonymous
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”
William Shakespeare
“Give me a fish you’ll feed me for a day, teach me how to fish you’ll feed me for a lifetime.
Unknown
“That the funny thing about memory isn’t it, we are not what we remember of ourselves, we are what people say we are, they project upon us their convictions, we are nothing but blank screens.
Fairchild From Aeon Flux
“He said true things, but called them by wrong names.”
Robert Browning
“It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
James Barrie
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin
“I laugh in the face of fear and I scourer in the corner when it’s gone.”
Unknown
“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.”
Fred Allen
“The amount of sleep required by the average person is just five minutes more.”
Anonymous
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
Aristotle
“The greatest gift you can give anyone is to see them exactly as they wish to be seen.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Insanity –- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
R.D. Lang
“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.”
C.D. Jackson
“The past is history, the future is a mystery and now is a gift. That’s why we call it the present”.
Unknown
“Hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Confucius
"People as friends need to be given opportunities to fail if they are really to succeed. If people are saved from failure, then they can never really experience success, since it is artificial to think that life is such that we cannot grow and from failure true growth is measured."
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