Category: Quotes of the day

Neighbors

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your …

Discipline

Self-command is the main discipline. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leslie Nielsen

“Doing nothing is very hard to do … you never know when you’re finished.” Leslie Nielsen quotes

Kathleen Casey Theisen

“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.” Kathleen Casey Theisen …

Freya Madeline Stark

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” Freya Madeline Stark quotes

Burk Hudson

“Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.” Burk Hudson quotes

Franz Liszt

“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.” Franz Liszt quotes

Bierce, Ambrose

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one’s credibility for future delivery. Bierce, Ambrose quotes

Agassiz, Louis

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Agassiz, Louis quotes

Johnson, Paul

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. Johnson, Paul quotes

Anacharsis

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. Anacharsis quotes

Quijote, Don

Where one door closes, another opens. Quijote, Don quotes

Brown, Les

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. Brown, Les quotes

Stephen

“Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.” Stephen quotes

Problems

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. – Einstein, Albert

Ellen Herman

“Joel: That’s the movies, Ed. Try reality./ Ed: No thanks.” Ellen Herman quotes

Dalton Camp

“Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.” Dalton Camp quotes

Maria Irene Fornes

“When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, …

Tom Wolfe

“Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” Tom Wolfe quotes

Phyllis Diller

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” Phyllis Diller quotes

Patton, George S.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. Patton, George S. quotes

Gide, Andre

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise. Gide, Andre quotes

Froude, James A.

The secret of a person’s nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. Froude, James …

Mencken, H. L.

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. Mencken, H. L. quotes

Wise, Stephen S.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. Wise, Stephen S. quotes

Collier, Jeremy

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Collier, Jeremy quotes

Germaine Greer

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” Germaine Greer quotes

Archilocus

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Archilocus quotes

Army and Navy

How happy is the sailor’s life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. – …

Edward L. Flom

“One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you’re perceived to be by others.” Edward …

Elmer G. Letterman

“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.” Elmer G. Letterman quotes

Sophocles

“What you cannot enforce, do not command.” Sophocles quotes

John Zorn

“I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.” John Zorn quotes

Pat Buckley

“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.” Pat Buckley quotes

La Bruyere, Jean De

A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. La Bruyere, Jean De quotes

Proverb, American

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. Proverb, American quotes