Month: April 2009

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just …

“Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.” Nicholas Culpeper quotes

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already …

“I always like a good math solution to any love problem.” Michael Patrick King quotes

“The entire fruit is already present in the seed.” Tertullian quotes

“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.” George Iles quotes

“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” Gustav Mahler quotes

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.” Ovid quotes

“Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I …

“If you look good and dress well, you don’t need a purpose in life.” Robert Pante quotes

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” Aldous Huxley quotes

“Spring is a true reconstructionist.” Henry Timrod quotes

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Winston Churchill quotes

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau quotes

“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.” John Burroughs quotes

“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.” C. P. Snow quotes

“I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.” Mary Chase quotes

“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.” Steven Wright quotes

“There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.” Booth Tarkington …

“There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered!” Charles Swindoll quotes

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.” Josh Billings quotes

“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping …

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who …

“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.” Alice Walker …

“The good man is the friend of all living things.” Mohandas Gandhi quotes

“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.” Thomas Huxley quotes

“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.” Dan Quayle quotes

“I’m not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.” Hillary Rodham Clinton quotes

“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” Charles Lindbergh quotes

“This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that …

“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” Sigmund Freud quotes

“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.” Theodor Adorno quotes

“If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you …

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” Woodrow Wilson quotes

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” Gustave Flaubert quotes

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker quotes

“You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” John J. Plomp quotes

“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often …

“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.” Jeff Valdez quotes