We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. -Robert H. Shaffer
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. -Robert H. Shaffer
Category: Quotes of the day
We don’t know one-millionth of one percent about anything. -Thomas A. Edison
We don’t know one-millionth of one percent about anything. -Thomas A. Edison
Good is not good, when better is expected. -Thomas Fuller
Good is not good, when better is expected. -Thomas Fuller
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. -Sigmund Freud
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. -Sigmund Freud
Pat Day
I know there’s a Derby out there with my name on it. Pat Day quotes
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. -John Stuart Mill
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. -John Stuart Mill
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death. -William Shakespeare
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death. -William Shakespeare
Man proposes, but God disposes. -Thomas Kempis
Man proposes, but God disposes. -Thomas Kempis
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. -Joineriana
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. -Joineriana
Louis Celine
“Most people die at the last minute; others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.” Louis Celine quotes
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. -Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. -Aristotle
Brendan Gill
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” Brendan Gill quotes
Charles Horace Mayo
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many …
Ernesto Sabato
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; …
Lord Beaverbrook
Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work. Lord Beaverbrook quotes
Always tell the truth — it’s the easiest thing to remember. -David Mamet
Always tell the truth — it’s the easiest thing to remember. -David Mamet
Don’t tell me peace has broken out. -Bertolt Brecht
Don’t tell me peace has broken out. -Bertolt Brecht
Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us. -Dr. Marcus Bach
Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us. -Dr. Marcus Bach
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. -Benjamin Franklin
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. -Benjamin Franklin
A short retirement urges a sweet return. -John Milton
A short retirement urges a sweet return. -John Milton
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -Fr. Jerome Cummings
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -Fr. Jerome Cummings
Rima Collin
Red beans were traditionally cooked while the Monday wash was drying on the line, and since New Orleans humidity made that an all-day job, the …
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. -Abraham Lincoln
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. -Abraham Lincoln
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. -Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. -Ernest Hemingway
Self-command is the main discipline. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-command is the main discipline. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. -Ken Hudgins
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. -Ken Hudgins
Wealth unused might as well not exist. -Aesop
Wealth unused might as well not exist. -Aesop
The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence. -Edward Thomas
The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence. -Edward Thomas
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter -Winston Churchill
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter -Winston Churchill
"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge”" – Napoleon Hill
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge”” – Napoleon Hill
"Before I speak, I have something important to say." – Groucho Marx
“Before I speak, I have something important to say.” – Groucho Marx
There is no liberation without labor… and there is no freedom which is free. -The Siri Singh Sahib
There is no liberation without labor… and there is no freedom which is free. -The Siri Singh Sahib
We have art in order not to die of the truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche
The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet] -William Shakespeare
The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. -William Shakespeare
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. -Johnny Carson
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. -Johnny Carson
Let God’s promises shine on your problems. -Corrie Ten Boom
Let God’s promises shine on your problems. -Corrie Ten Boom
John Ray
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no …
J. S. Buckminster
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. J. S. Buckminster quotes
Paul H. Dunn
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person …