Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[blunthead]

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
-George Eliot

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
-Arthur Erickson

You cannot step into the same river twice.
-Heraclitus

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill

[J.T. Adams]

'Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.'

-Mark Twain

[Spideyman]

"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

[Becks19]

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Optimism is an intellectual choice.
- Diana Schneider

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.
- Frederick E. Crane

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
- Minna Antrim

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
- Harry S. Truman

[randallFlaggfan1]

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
-Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

[Haunted]

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
~ Benjamin E. Mays

[Becks19]

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.
- Julia F. Carney

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
- Thomas Wolfe

[Haunted]

Live simply.. Love seriously.
Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
~Ronald Reagan

[blunthead]

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
--Euripides

One is very crazy when in love.
- Sigmund Freud

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
- Mark Twain

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
- Edward Gibbon

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- Robert Orben

[randallFlaggfan1]

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
- Chuck Palahniuk

Live simply.. Love seriously.
Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
~Ronald Reagan

Very nice, Haunted. Thank you!