Proverb, Russian
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. Proverb, Russian quotes
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Hope, Bob
I do benefits for all religions — I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. Hope, Bob quotes
Pliny The Elder
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. Pliny The Elder quotes
Nehru, Jawaharlal
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order. Nehru, Jawaharlal quotes
Robertson, Frederick W.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. Robertson, Frederick W. quotes
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. Celine, Louis-Ferdinand quotes
Osborne, John
They spend their time looking forward to the past. Osborne, John quotes
Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight -Takuboku, Ishikawa
Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight -Takuboku, Ishikawa
Kabbalah
“The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.” Kabbalah quotes
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. -Mckern, Leo
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. -Mckern, Leo
There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. -Dyer, Wayne
There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. -Dyer, Wayne
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. -Landor, Walter Savage
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. -Landor, Walter Savage
Edgar Degas on Art
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas Quotes, Famous Quotes, Edgar Degas, Art
Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. -Prior, Matthew
Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. -Prior, Matthew
Sir Richard Steele
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Sir Richard Steele quotes
Clare Ansberry
“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” Clare Ansberry quotes
Annie Dillard
“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.” Annie Dillard quotes
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. -Johnson, Lyndon B.
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. -Johnson, Lyndon B.
Roger Ebert
“All good art is about something deeper than it admits.” Roger Ebert quotes
Caesar, Julius
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can. Caesar, Julius quotes
Jiminez, Juan Ramon
Love, you are eternal like springtime. Jiminez, Juan Ramon quotes
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. -Fuller, Thomas
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. -Fuller, Thomas
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. -Shakespeare, William
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. -Shakespeare, William
Hamlin Garland on Nature
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear …
Devil
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape. – Shakespeare, William
In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve. -Clark, J. Reuben
In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve. -Clark, J. Reuben
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can. -Proverb, German
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can. -Proverb, German
John Muir on Nature
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. …
Judgment and Judges
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. – Burger, …
Disability
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone. – Navratilova, Martina
Experience
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. – Sidney, Sir Philip
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. -Corneille, Pierre
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. -Corneille, Pierre
Morrie Schwartz
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Morrie Schwartz quotes
Alan Alda
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.” Alan Alda quotes
William C. Bryant
“The groves were God’s first temples.” William C. Bryant quotes
John Wooden
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden quotes
We will burn that bridge when we come to it. -Gorski, Nick
We will burn that bridge when we come to it. -Gorski, Nick
Isaac Disraeli
“After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but …
Adams, Henry Brooks
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Adams, Henry Brooks quotes
Erhard, Werner
Create your future from your future not your past. Erhard, Werner quotes