Assorted Quotes
Compiled by Amanda

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
-- Grandma Moses

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
-- Seneca

Action is the antidote for despair.
-- Joan Baez

I never exaggerate. I just remember big.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp.. or what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
-- Andre Maurois

All Nature wears one universal grin.
-- Henry Fielding

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.
-- Paul Bourget

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-- Benjamin Franklin

There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift ofawareness.
-- Louis Bromfield

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
-- Dan Rather

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married, too.
-- H.L. Mencken

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you pour uopn it, the more it will contract.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
-- William Rotsler

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
-- Plato

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
-- Phillips Brooks

Osiyo Oginalii, Ulihelisdi Owenvsv. (Greetings Friend, welcome home.)
-- Cherokee Greeting

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
-- Joseph Conrad

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
-- Anonymous

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee... gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

There is one only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-- Christopher Morley

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
-- John Milton

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
-- Buddha

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
-- Richard Whately

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second a good word, and the third a good deed.
-- Nietzche

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
-- Madame Marie Curie

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time: it's ten to one if they hang long together.
-- Douglas Jerrold

I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.
-- William Ashworth

Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.
-- Howard Kenneth Nixon

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality, and intelligence go with them.
-- Louis Bromfield

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
-- Ernest Hemingway

The motion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
-- Henry Bergson

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
-- Aristotle

The world gets better every day -- then worse again in the evening.
-- Kin Hubbard

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
-- Aesop

A well developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
-- William A. Ward

When we get to the point in life that we are not afraid to fail, but rather look forward to it because we know that failing is the path to achievement, life gets a whole lot simpler.
-- Kevin Lawrence

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
-- Anonymous

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
-- George Sand

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
-- Baruch Spinoza

Rivers know this: There is no hurry, we shall get there some day.
-- Winnie the Pooh

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
-- Winston Churchill

From every mountainside let freedom ring.
-- Samuel Francis Smith

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
-- Marshall Lumsden

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
-- Zig Ziglar

I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
-- Ed Bluestone

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-- Calvin Coolidge

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
-- Albert Einstein

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
-- Albert Schweitzer

With malice toward none, with charity for all, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
-- Abraham Lincoln

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
-- Les Brown

Let us, then, be up and doing,with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing,learn to labor and to wait.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's hard to detect good luck -- it looks so much like something you've earned.
-- Fred A. Clark

He who knows that enough is enough, will always have enough.
-- Lao-Tzu

Choose your rut carefully; you'll be in it for the next ten miles.
-- As seen on road sign in New York state

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
-- Anonymous

Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
-- Charles Spencer

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
-- Ed Howe

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
-- Douglas Jerrold

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
-- Anne Frank

Neither intelligence nor judgment are creative. If a sculptor is nothing but science and intelligence his hands will have no talent.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There are two ways of spreading light:
To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton

The Oxen may be slow but the Earth is patient.
-- Chinese Proverb

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
-- David Viscott, M.D.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.
-- Erich Segal

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
-- Blaise Pascal

You never have to worry, about remembering someone you will never forget.
-- John Bafford

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses courage loses all.
-- Cervantes

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
-- Garrison Keillor

To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hands,
and eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-- Orson Welles

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
-- Joan Baez

Be part of the answer, not part of the problem.
-- Buell Gallagher

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.
-- Joe Lewis

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
-- Mae West

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
-- Blaise Pascal

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
-- Thomas A. Kempis

Reality is the leading cause of stress -- for those in touch with it.
-- Jane Wagner

Integrity breeds credibility.
-- Wayne Cheng

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
-- Edward Lytton

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death --ourselves.
-- Eda LeShan

Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
-- Albert Schweitzer

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
-- Anton Chekhov

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they will forget the number.
-- Edith Armstrong

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
-- Brian Tracy

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf