Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~B.K.S. Iyengar The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy…
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Writing
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot…
Worry
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold Drag your thoughts away from your troubles……
Women
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are…
Wise Words
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ,…
Wisdom
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge,…
Winter
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole…
Weekends
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~Bill Watterson Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get…
Weeds
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler…
Weather
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin…
Water
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ~William Wordsworth A lake…
War
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud.…
Walking
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good…
Virtue
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ~Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young…
Violence
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. ~Sam Peckinpah We…
Vice
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." ~W. MacNeile Dixon Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay…
Vegetarianism
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. ~David Brenner You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it…
Vanity
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. ~Blaise Pascal Vanity is the…
Vacations
No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.…
Unemployment
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~Harry S. Truman Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a…
Twins
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ~Josh Billings It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're…
Truth
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Ye shall know the truth, and…
Trust
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster I think we may safely trust a good deal…
Trees
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his…
Travel
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~Elizabeth Drew The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St.…
Time
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner Time…
Thrift
Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character. ~S.W. Straus Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. ~Seneca…
Thinking
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~Voltaire Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect…
Tennis
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. ~Jacques Barzun I have always considered tennis as a…
Television
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~Nicholas Johnson I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence.…
Telephones
The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25…
Teenagers
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.…
Technology
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ~Mark Kennedy…
Teamwork
Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author Unknown No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock Teamwork is the ability…
Teachers
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann" The dream begins with a teacher who believes in…
Tea
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques" Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yiheng There is a…
Taxes
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. ~Will…
Tattoo
The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. ~Author Unknown The tattoo attracts and also repels…
Swimming
Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it. ~Author Unknown If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest…
Summer
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against…
Success
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your…
Stress
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of…
Statistics
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook 98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they…
Spring
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's…
Sports
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures. ~Earl Warren Every sport pretends to a literature,…
Speeches
Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? ~Kin Hubbard There are always three speeches, for every one you…
Speaking
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~Ben Jonson If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say…
Soul
Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul. ~Geoffrey Fisher The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to…
Sons
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Friedrich von Schiller You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like…
Solitude
Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are…
Society
Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality. ~Eli Khamarov, "Lives of the Cognoscenti" I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of…
Soccer
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so…
Smoking
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. ~Arturo Toscanini To cease smoking is the easiest thing…
Smiles
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.…
Sleep
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there…
Skipping
It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven. ~Jessi Lane Adams If you've lost your enthusiasm, there's no better place to find…
Skiing
Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. ~Author Unknown Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown There are really only three things…
Sisters
Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. ~Amy Li A sister is a little…
Singing
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou He who sings frightens away his ills. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote…
Simplicity
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993 To poke a wood fire is more solid…
Silence
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn Silence is the true friend that…
Shopping
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. ~Bo Derek When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a…
Sex
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988 The tragedy of…
Self Respect
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam Self-respect is the fruit of discipline… ~Abraham J. Heschel…
Self Discovery
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct,"…
Self Control
Discipline is remembering what you want. ~David Campbell Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel,…
Self
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~Jean Guitton…
Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking fills my days - not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets! ~Author Unknown Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks. ~Author Unknown…
Science
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954 I think science has enjoyed an…
Sanity
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?" ~Madame…
Safety
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ~William Shakespeare For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind. ~Eleanor Everet Safety doesn't happen by accident.…
Running
I always loved running… it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting…
Risk
Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for. ~Author Unknown To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare…
Responsibility
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren "I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something…
Religion
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and…
Relationships
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière Having someone wonder where you are when you…
Reality
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein Are you…
Racism
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. ~Dennis Leary One day our descendants will think it incredible…
Quotations
Quotation, n.: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries…
Purpose
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ~Walter Savage Landor The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne To have…
Puns
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. ~Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849 A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan.…
Psychology
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown [Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a…
Prosperity
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving…
Property
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the…
Promises
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. ~Author Unknown Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent…
Programming
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations…. They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them "operators" or…
Procrastination
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ~Don Marquis Only Robinson Crusoe had…
Prejudice
We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is…
Pregnancy
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman If pregnancy were a book they…
Prayer
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~Henry Ward Beecher God punishes…
Poverty
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. ~Charles Darwin My poverty is not complete: it…
Politics
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour Politicians are like diapers. They…
Poker
The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. ~Author Unknown If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the…
Poetry
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder,…
Pleasure
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~William Henley Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most…
Places
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. ~Alec Waugh Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain…
Philosophy
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. ~Albert Einstein Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit.…
Philosophical
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is…
Perspective
There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other. ~Blaise Pascal If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are…
Perseverance
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher The road to success is dotted…
Perfection
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ~Harriet Braiker Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ~Goethe…
People
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs…
Peace
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~William Ewart Gladstone If…
Patriotism
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.…
Patience
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ~Paul Sweeney Patience is something you admire…
Past
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~André Maurois The past is not a package one can lay away. ~Emily…
Passion
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's…
Parties
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and…
Parents
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always…
Optimism
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.…
Opportunities
Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. ~Hugh Allen When I look back now over my life…
Nurses
Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes. ~Author Unknown Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ~Dag Hammarskjold Nurses are…
Nostalgia
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860 Nostalgia is like a grammar…
Night
Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining…
Needlework
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their…
Nature
How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880 I only went out for a walk and finally concluded…
Names
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ~W.H. Auden Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ~Thomas C. Haliburton…
Music
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach All deep…
Motorcycles
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Most motorcycle problems are caused by the…
Mothers
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan Being a full-time…
Morning
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. ~Henny Youngman Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day…
Morality
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~Henry B. Adams, The Education of…
Money
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard We can tell our values by looking at our…
Mistakes
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927 Mistakes are part of the dues one…
Mind
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer The mind is like an iceberg, it floats…
Men
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. ~Mae West My theory is that men are no more liberated…
Memory
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years A…
Medical
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. ~Cicero My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I…
Media
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ~G.K. Chesterton We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse,…
Math
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann Arithmetic is where the answer…
Marriage
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Strike an average between what a woman thinks…
Manners
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. ~Emily Post Politeness is to…
Luck
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~Wilson Mizner Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ~William Shakespeare Depend on the rabbit's foot if…
Love
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein There is…
Logic
But, logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ~Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, "Weeds & Moss," My Ireland Logic: The art of thinking…
Live Now
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we…
Literature
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ~Ezra Pound A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.…
Listening
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson We have two ears and one mouth so that we can…
Light
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese…
Life
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would…
Libraries
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5…
Letters
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb It…
Leisure
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than…
Learning
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as…
Leadership
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He…
Laziness
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~Jules Renard I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. ~Bern Williams All of…
Laughter
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.…
Las Vegas
Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ~Chuck Palahniuk The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at…
Language
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. ~John…
Labor
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.…
Knowledge
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her…
Kisses
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~Albert Einstein A kiss is a lovely trick designed…
Kindness
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert…
Karma
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My…
Justice
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl Warren Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. ~Walter…
Jobs
The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.…
Jewellery
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. ~Author Unknown Jewellery takes people's minds off your wrinkles. ~Sonja Henie These gems have life in them: their…
Jesus Christ
The name of Jesus is the one lever that lifts the world. ~Author Unknown In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows has a part. ~Michael Bruce…
Jealousy
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw In jealousy there is more self-love than…
Intuition
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head…
Internet
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos The Internet is just a world passing around notes in…
Intelligence
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~Albert Einstein I must have a prodigious quantity of mind;…
Integrity
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ~Abraham Lincoln I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the…
Insults
A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw The only gracious way to accept an…
Insects
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. ~American Quaker Saying Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant;…
Inner Child
You will find more happiness growing down than up. ~Author Unknown In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Happy is he who still…
Imagination
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras,…
Ignorance
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. ~Aldous Huxley The most violent element in society is ignorance. ~Emma Goldman A great deal…
Idleness
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. ~John Lubbock Few women and fewer men have enough character to be…
Ideas
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. ~Don Marquis If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and…
Ideals
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides,…
Hypocrisy
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. ~Moliere Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We…
Humorous
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~Fred Allen Say what you will about…
Humor
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. ~Taki Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness…
Humility
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about…
Human Right
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed…
Humankind
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to…
Hug
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~Bil Keane, "Family Circus" Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time…
How True!
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Tell…
Housework
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. ~Rudyard…
Horses
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~Winston Churchill Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps…
Hope
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Once you choose hope,…
Honesty
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little…
Home
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. ~Maya Angelou Home is not where you live but where they…
Hockey
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.…
Hmmm
The day was counting up its birds and never got the answer right. ~Author Unknown And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.…
History
A million thanks to Steve for sharing some of his fantastic collection with me! History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley…
Helping
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~Mother Teresa How wonderful it is that nobody need…
Heartache
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you…
Health
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton There's…
Hate
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~Booker T. Washington Hating people is like burning down your own house to get…
Haste
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. ~Saint Vincent de Paul God made time, but man made haste.…
Happiness
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely…
Hair
The hair is the richest ornament of women. ~Martin Luther Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.…
Habits
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ~Samuel Johnson Habit is habit, and not to be flung out…
Guests
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. ~Kahlil Gibran If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb…
Grief
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland When you are sorrowful look again in your heart,…
Gratitude
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No…
Grandparents
The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown What a bargain…
Grammar
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~A.A. Milne Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any…
Government
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ~Lewis Mumford, in…
Gossip
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.…
Golf
Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ~Grantland Rice Golf appeals to…
Golden Mean
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken. ~Aristotle I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can…
God
Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. ~Robert H. Schuller Every evening I turn my worries over to…
Goals
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.…
Gifts
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet What is bought is cheaper…
Genius
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771 A genius is one who shoots at something no…
Generations
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. ~J.B.…
Gardens
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Dale (Thanks, Anne) Gardening…
Games
You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps. ~Author Unknown It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!"…
Gambling
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~From the movie The Color of Money If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are…
Future
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams,…
Friendship
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a…
Freedom
The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints. ~Samuel Hendel He that would…
Forgiveness
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and…
Football
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~Heywood Hale Brown Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and…
Food
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had…
Flying
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and…
Flowers
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858 Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya" I'd rather…
Flirtation
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. ~E.W. Howe If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as…
Fishing
There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Author Unknown Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. ~Author Unknown [T]his…
Firefighters
The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen. ~Gregory Widen, Backdraft I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be…
Fire
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner It is with our passions as it is with fire and…
Feminism
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't…
Fear
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be…
Fathers
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would…
Fate
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~Jawaharlal Nehru Lots of folks confuse bad management…
Family
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," MAS*H Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land…
Faith
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne Faith is reason…
Fairies
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run-on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains…
Failure
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. A failure is an…
Faces
A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. ~Ralph…
Experience
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. ~Alfred Sheinwold Experience is not what happens to a man. It is…
Exercise
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley If it weren't for the fact that the…
Excuses
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~Jules Renard Excuses are the nails used to…
Exaggeration
Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big. ~Attributed to both Audrey Snead and Chi Chi Rodriguez An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. ~Kahlil Gibran…
Equality
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee In America everybody is of opinion that he has no…
Environment
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago……
Emotions
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini Let's not forget that the little…
Effort
All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown Much good…
Education
No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton The aim of education should…
Drugs
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that…
Driving
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ~Mary Ellen Kelly Patience is something…
Dreams
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. ~H.F.…
Dogs
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~Ben Williams The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself…
Diplomacy
Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. ~Daniele Vare A diplomat…
Dieting
When we lose twenty pounds… we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and…
Desserts
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. ~Heywood Broun Research…
Dental
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson A dentist at work in his vocation always looks…
Decisions
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ~Rita Mae Brown When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William…
Debt
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend…
Death
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange…
Daydream
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and…
Daughters
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~Euripides A daughter is a gift of love. ~Author Unknown A son is a son till he takes him…
Dancing
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Stafford How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats There is a bit…
Curmudgeon
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures…
Curiosity
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. ~Eleanor Roosevelt Millions…
Crying
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. ~Henry Maudsley When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in…
Crayons
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live…
Cows
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a…
Courage
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch) Courage is…
Country
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945 God made the country, and man made…
Consumerism
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful Nature provides a free lunch, but only…
Community
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.…
Committees
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. ~Robert Copeland A committee is a group that keeps minutes and…
College
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary A university is what a…
Coffee
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes,…
Clothing
The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ~Mark Twain Unmentionables - those articles of ladies' apparel that are never discussed…
Civilization
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. ~Sigmund Freud Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't. ~Lord Raglan…
Civil Disobedience
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. ~Juvenal Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb Never do…
Cities
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. ~Philip G. Hamerton All cities are mad: but the…
Cinema
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ~Roman Polanski Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. ~Ralph Richardson Drama is life with…
Children
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher You can learn many things from children. How much patience you…
Childhood
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~Elizabeth Lawrence Childhood is measured…
Cheerleading
Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score. ~Author Unknown A good cheerleader is not…
Charm
"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.…
Change
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson If you don't like something change it; if you…
Chakras
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. ~Llewelyn Powers There is deep wisdom within our very flesh if…
Censorship
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John…
Cats
It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. ~Cynthia E. Varnado In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone…
Carpe Diem
Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus. ~Robert Brault Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you…
Camping
Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry, Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to…
Butterflies
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun And find your shoulder to light on, To…
Business
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~Harold Geneen A business that makes nothing but…
Brother
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may…
Brotherhood
There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own. I care not…
Brevity
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~Robert Southey Good things, when short, are twice as good. ~Baltasar Gracian, The Art…
Breathing
When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should…
Bore
Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~Gian Vincenzo Gravina Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in…
Boredom
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Boredom is a vital problem for…
Books
A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown A book is the only place in which you…
Boldness
It is better to be bold than too circumspect because fortune is of sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli Put a…
Body
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Take care of your body. It's the…
Blessings
May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing also attributed to…
Birth Control
A crying baby is the best form of birth control. ~Carole Tabron Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob…
Bird
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712 I once had…
Bicycling
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard It…
Belief
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except…
Be Yourself
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human…
Beauty
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Everybody needs beauty as well as…
Basketball
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief." ~James Naismith This is the second…
Baseball
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.…
Babies & Kids
It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about…
Autumn
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of…
Attitude
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995 Attitudes…
Astrology
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. ~Edward Abbey We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine,…
Art
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing…
Arizona
The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona. ~Will Rogers Desert rains are usually…
Appearance
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe…
Apology
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence An apology is a good way to have the last word.…
Animal Rights
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals,…
Animals
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~Robert Brault Ever consider what pets must think of us?…
Anger
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris There is nothing more galling to angry people…
Angels
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they…
America
My dream is that as the years go on… that America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above…
Alcohol
Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little. ~Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That…
Age
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~Doug Larson Age is an issue of mind over matter. If…
Advice
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977 Some people like my advice…
Advertising
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~Steuart Henderson Britt What is the difference…
Adversity
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum Pain…
Action
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin Between saying and doing many…