John Mason Brown
“She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.”
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Walter Pater
“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Alan Patrick Herbert
“The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in …
Gerald Nachman
“Nothing fails like success.”
Tommy Smothers
“Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT’S bad for you!”
J. W. Schopf
“For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.”
Bernard Berenson
“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
Paul Brown
“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.”
Joseph F. Newton
“A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.”
Margaret Peters
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”
Jane E. Brody
“Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly …
John Lilly
“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.”
Rick Warren
“If you’re alive, there’s a purpose for your life.”
Andrew W. Mathis
“It is bad luck to be superstitious.”
Evan Davis
“Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.”
Marilyn C. Barrick
“For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.”
Edgar Wilson Nye
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”
Marion Parker
“Be kind – Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle – everybody’s lonesome.”
Alison Headley
“In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it’s never too late.”
William Strunk Jr.
“Vigorous writing is concise.”
Queen Christina
“It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.”
Robert A. Humphrey
“An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.”
Leon Battista Alberti
“A man can do all things if he but wills them.”
Ron Nesen
“Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source.”
Althea Gibson
“I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it’s half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the …
Michael Hanson
“To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action …
Harry Shearer
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
H. Mumford Jones
“Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”
Tellis Frank
“The worst thing about Europe is that you can’t go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.”
Bertha Calloway
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
“May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.”
Dorothy Allison
“Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.”
J. Hart
“Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.”
Marcus Terentius Varro
“The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should …
Clyde B. Aster
“When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he’s going to have a go at it anyway.”
Ludwig Erhard
“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.”
Roy M. Goodman
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”
Clarence E. Hodges
“For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.”
W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman
“For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn–much.”