And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. (John Dryden)
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. (Margaret Lee Runbeck)
When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to. (Aldous Huxley)
. . . I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. (John Calvin)
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. (Lao Tzu)
I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. (Lynda Barry)
Vigorous writing is concise. (William Jr. Strunk)
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth)
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. (Booker T. Washington)
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. (Pogo)
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas. (Marchioness Townsend)
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others. (Marquis de Sade)
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse. (Carlos Castaneda)
I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day. (Ronald Reagan)
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. (Christina Baldwin)
Good men must be affectionate men. (Samuel Richardson)
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the only things that are true. (George Bernard Shaw)
Love is what you've been through with somebody. (James Grover Thurber)