“I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on” - Rita Dove

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” - Will Durant

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Unknown

“Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.” - Alphonse de Lamartine

“Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.” - Conte Vittorio Alfieri

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.” - Unknown

“I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.” - Cato The Elder

“Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.” - Unknown

“No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.”- Publius Syrus

“That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. - Horace

“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.” - Unknown

“Hurry when you have time, then you'll have time when you are in a hurry.” - Unknown

“Keep breathing.” - Sophie Tucker

“If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.” - Angelina Jolie

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." - Andre Gide

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.” - Baltasar Gracian

“Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.” - Alexander Pope

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” - Edmund Burke

“Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.” - Paul Zane Pilzer

“Never understimate the heart of a champion.” - Rudy Tomjanovich

“Don't love the things you own, lest they own you.” - Unknown

“A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.” - Hosea Ballou

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France

"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say." - Samuel Johnson

"Food is the most primitive form of comfort." - Sheila Graham

"We make allowance for necessity." - Proverb

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates.

"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." - James Thurber

"Whatever your fear most has no power. It is your fear that has the power." - Oprah Winfrey.

"Never expect your friends to do for you that which you can yourself accomplish." - Proverb, (Latin)

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." - Tupac Shakur

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix

Here Harod lies

"Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;
Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?
If such you seek, try Westminister, and view
Ten thousand, just as fit for him as you."
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West

"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem." - Nicolas Chamfort

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." - Oscar Wilde

"Hate is not a good counselor." - Victoria Wolff

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden

“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.” - James Matthew Barrie

“Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.” - Unknown

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.” - Bob Edwards

“How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.” - Jeremy Collier

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater

“'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.” - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

“Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.” - Arnold Glasow

“Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.” - Dean Briggs

“Poverty needs much, avarice everything.” - Unknown

“A sin confessed is half forgiven.” - French Proverb

“Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade.” - Unknown

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” - Thomas Paine

“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.” - Albert Einstein

“When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.” - Robert Burn

"Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die." - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." - James Baldwin

"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"Many diseases may be cured by abstinence." ~ Thomas Carlyle

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - General George Patton

"Schoolmaster, stick to your books; farmer, to your pigs." ~ Proverb, (Chinese)

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." - Bertrand Russell

"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age." - Christopher Morley

The difference between men and boys .... .... is the price of their toys. ~ Unknown

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb

"You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable." ~ Proverb

“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” - Paul Brown

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Sanders Law

"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." - Ken Venturi

"We improve ourselves by victories over our self. There must be contests, and you must win." - Edward Gibbon

"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Marcus Bridgstocke

"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home." - Robert Orben

“We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.” - Unknown

"Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure." - Meister Eckhart

"Life is consciousness." - Emmet Fox

"Hell is full of musical amateurs." - George Bernard Shaw

“Time is like money: you can either spend, waste, or invest.” - Unknown

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." - Mignon McLaughlin

“A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.” - Woodrow Wyatt

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt--until they are too heavy to be broken." - Warren Buffett

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." - Henry David Thoreau

"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right." - Albert Guinon

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Theresa

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. ~ William M. Winans

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." - Mike Ditka

"Diligent work makes a skillful workman." ~ Proverb, (Danish)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

"A fool must now and then be right by chance." ~ Proverb

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." - Aesop

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." - Seneca

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." - Gandhi

"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true." - Dorothy Parker

"Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger." - Randy K. Milholland

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed." - Elizabeth Ast

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." - Bertha Calloway

"She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what." - Kate Chopin

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith." - Saint Francis of Assisi

"When it's all over, it's not who you were, it's whether or not you made a difference."- Bob Dole

"To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." - Erma Bombeck

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli

"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca

"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate." - Gloria Steinem

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - James M. Barrie

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." - Galileo Galilei

“''Tis liberty alone that gives the flower of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.” - William Cowper

"Winning is a habit." - Leo Durocher

“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” - John Coltrane

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” - Thomas Berger

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is." - Chuck Reid

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.” Henry David Thoreau

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope” - Alexandre Dumas Père

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” - Voltaire

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” - C.S. Lewis

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.” - Miles Franklin

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Moliere

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life." - William Wordsworth

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean Jacques Rousseau

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness." - Nicole Kidman

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation." - Roger Maris

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." - William Blake

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

"At the center of your being you have the answer. You know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao-Tzu

"I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday." - Abraham Lincoln

"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either." - Golda Meir

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." - Mother Teresa

"When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything." -- General George Patton

“He that is well paid is well satisfied.” - William Shakespeare

“Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.” - Bernoulli

"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." - Bruce Barton

"If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does - day in and day out." - Chuck Noll

"Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful." - Tony Dungy

"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - Pope John Paul II

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." - E. B. White

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.” - Senator John Kerry

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Lao Tzu

"Ability is of little account without opportunity." - Lucille Ball

“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?” - Pablo Picasso

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." - Paul Dudley White

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.” - Henry David Thoreau

"In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more, you have to face rejection." - Farrah Gray

"What we anticipate seldom occurs. What we least expected usually happens." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to disregard them." - Cato the Elder

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." - Aristotle

"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb

"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes." - Oprah Winfrey

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." - Nelson Mandela

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." - George Schultz

"The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to those things." - Woody Allen

"Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own." - Aesop

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson

"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?" - Cicero

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli

"So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain." - Helen Keller

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." - Alice Walker

"My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it." - Chuang Tzu

"Anything's possible, if you've got enough nerve." - J.K. Rowling

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln

"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance." - George S. Patton

"Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true." - Marcel Proust

"The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger." - Cicero

"I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin

"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible." - Mao Tse-tung

"The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now." - Bill Cosby

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." - Cato the Elder

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." - George Moore

"Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time." - Sam Rayburn

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it." - Barbra Streisand

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert Humphrey

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

"Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." - Mae West

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau

"He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument." - Chinese Proverb

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." - Samuel Coleridge

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." - Dutch Proverb

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time." - Oprah Winfrey

"I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Play for more than you can afford to lose and you'll learn the game." - Winston Churchill

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle

"He who would travel happily must travel light." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified." - Aesop

"Let him that would move the world first move himself." - Socrates

"Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde

"In giving advice, seek to help, not to please, your friend." - Solon

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." - Benjamin Franklin

"The more a man knows, the more he forgives." - Catherine the Great

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca

"Charity sees the need not the cause." - German Proverb

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." - Albert Camus

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." - Ben Stein

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." - George Satanaya

"Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." - Mae West

"To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail." - Michael Jordan

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." - Aristotle

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of!" - Benjamin Franklin

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke

"The best remedy for anger is delay." - Brigham Young

"Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - John F Kennedy

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain

"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." - Doris Lessing

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein

"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required." - Winston Churchill

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." - George Eliot

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." - Plato

"Money often costs too much." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch." - John F. Kennedy

"Among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver." - Maya Angelou

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." - Bill Cosby

"You play for the name on the front and not the name on the back." - Tommy Lasorda

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That's the secret to life...replace one worry with another...." - Charles M. Shulz

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcom Forbes

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain

"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." - Duke Ellington

"God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them." - Stephen Hawking

"The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money." - Johnny Carson

"It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." - Charlie Chaplin

"It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - Rene Descartes

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader

"There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid." - Gandhi

"A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it." - Alistair Cooke

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Winston Churchill

"I never see what has been done. I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie

"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." - Dudley Moore

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." - Marie Curie

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese Proverb

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle." - Bill Clinton

"Never to suffer would be never to have been blessed." - Edgar Allen Poe

"Take chances. When rowing forward, the boat may rock." - Chinese Proverb

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up." - Vince Lombardi

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward." - Gracian

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville

"You are only as good as the team you have behind you." - Jim Palmer

"Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes." - Goethe

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." - William Congreve

"You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed." - Frederick Douglass

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." John D. Rockefeller

"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” - John Coltrane

“Revenge is a dish best served cold.” - Sicilian proverb

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

“It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.” - Miles Franklin

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” - C.S. Lewis

“A sin confessed is half forgiven.” - French Proverb

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” - Voltaire

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.” - Alexandre Dumas Père

“Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade.” - Unknown

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” - Thomas Paine