We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. (George Eliot)
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. (Mark Twain)
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. (P. G. Wodehouse)
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe (Dorothy Rothschild Parker)
I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide (John Ryman)
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. (Wilbert Donald Gough)
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. (Lee Iacocca)
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. (Democritus)
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. (Blaine Lee)
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. (Kahlil Gibran)
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. (Vachel Lindsay)
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. (Giacomo Leopardi)
Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. (Marguerite de Valois)
Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. (Liz Smith)
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. (A. C. Benson)
Some people see things that are and ask, Why Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ... (George)
In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us. (Sebastian Moore)