Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they (John Keats)
If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. (Chinese Proverb)
There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics. (Richard Livingstone)
Give me neither poverty nor riches. (Proverbs 30.8 Bible)
Carl would have to be fast to beat the stranger. Real fast. 'Draw,' said the stranger. Carl went for his gun, but then 'Hey, where did all these angels come from' (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
Paranoids are people, too they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. (D. J. Hicks)
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference. (Alan Valentine)
Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. (Kingman Brewster, Jr.)
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. (Jules Renard)
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. (Steven Wright)
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives. (Terry Lynn Taylor)
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. (Zora Neale Hurston)
I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns. (Jerrold Mundis)
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. (Sir Thomas Browne)
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. (Richard Milhous Nixon)
The earth has music for those who listen. (William Shakespeare)
Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not (Robert Francis Kennedy)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Hellen Keller)
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. (Frank Moore Colby)
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. (Miguel de Cervantes)