The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. (Jeremy Thorpe)
The only gift is a portion of thyself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Well begun is half done. (Aristotle)
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. (Unknown)
If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars' (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. (John Keats)
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. (George Sand)
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. (Aeschylus)
Nothing is said that has not been said before. (Terence)
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. (Elizabeth Bowen)
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. (Elizabeth Taylor)
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth. (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them. (Curtis Grant)
Life is a risk. (Diane Von Furstenberg)
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. (Alexander Pope)
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. (Will Rogers)
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon. (Maria Montessori)
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. (Buddha)