Candor
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. – Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Year: 2009
Fashion
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to …
Generosity
Lavishness is not generosity. – Fuller, Thomas
Grief
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. – Bible
Children
It takes three to make a child. – Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)
Rostand, Jean
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. Rostand, Jean quotes
Kupcinet, Irv
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? Kupcinet, Irv quotes
Proverb, French
A father is a banker provided by nature. Proverb, French quotes
Waitley, Denis
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. Waitley, Denis quotes
Hammurabi
“If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.” Hammurabi quotes
Fritjof Capra
“During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so …
Billie Holiday
“Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.” Billie Holiday quotes
William Osler
“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” William Osler quotes
Rushdie, Salman
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. Rushdie, Salman quotes
Lombardi, Vince
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the …
Nagarjuna, Siddha
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. Nagarjuna, Siddha …
Thibodeau, Robert
May he who is highest serve best. Thibodeau, Robert quotes
Coallier, Steven
Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway. Coallier, Steven quotes
La Fontaine, Jean De
By the work one knows the workmen. La Fontaine, Jean De quotes
Stoppard, Tom
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it. Stoppard, Tom quotes
Junius
“How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.” Junius quotes
Morality
We moralize among ruins. – Disraeli, Benjamin
Food and Eating
Hunger is a good cook. – Proverb
Literature
All literature is political. – Burton, LeVar
War
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. – Einstein, Albert
Gold
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold. – Chesterton, Gilbert K.
Impossibility
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. – Schuller, Robert H.
Courage
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. – Seneca
Pierre Schaeffer
“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.” Pierre Schaeffer quotes
Butler, Samuel
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Butler, Samuel quotes
Addison, Joseph
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Addison, Joseph quotes
Macinness, Helen
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested. Macinness, Helen quotes
Dandemis
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. Dandemis quotes
Pilgrim, Peace
We are all cells in the same body of humanity. Pilgrim, Peace quotes
Hamilton, Alexander
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. Hamilton, Alexander quotes
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow quotes
Young, Owen D.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is …
Chuang-Tzu
“Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech is cantankerous.” Chuang-Tzu quotes
Gifts
The only gift is a portion of thyself. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo
America
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. – Kissinger, Henry