Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. (Alan Marshall Beck)
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. (W. S. Gilbert)
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. (James Abbott McNeill Whistler)
When you are down and out something always turns up-and it is usually the noses of your friends. (Orson Welles)
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. (W. Clement Stone)
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Learn that the present hour alone is man's. (Samuel Johnson)
It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today. (Unknown)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. (Charles Dickens)
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand. (Robert Valett)
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. (Germaine Greer)
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly. (Seneca)
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. (John Updike)
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. (Fawn M. Brodie)
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes. (Henry M. Wriston)
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. (Sir Winston Churchill)
Nature herself makes the wise man rich. (Cicero)