A Book, tight shut, is but a block of paper. |
A Budget is What You stay in , if You go without |
A Child educated only at school is an uneducated child.George Santayana |
A Child is Some One who passes through Your Life and then disappears into an adult. |
A Chinese Philosopher, Lao-tze, listed gentleness as the first quality of greatness. In an age of push, use the magnetic pull of gentleness. |
A Cold in the Head causes less suffering than an idea. |
A Compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. |
A Compulsion a highbrow term for a temptation we’re not trying too hard to resist. |
A Conference is Just an admission that You want Somebody to join You in Your troubles. |
A Conqueror is always a lover of peace. He would like to make his entry into our state unopposed. |
A Fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. |
A Free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. |
A Friend is one before: whom I may think aloud. |
A Friend is Some One who can see through You and still enjoys the show. |
A Genius is One who shoots at Something no One else can sees, and hits It. |
A Gentleman never heard a story before. |
A Good father is a little bit of a mother. |
A Good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while ,he knows something. |
A Good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him.; and a sympathetic woman gets him. |
A Gossip is a person who creates the smoke in which other People assume there’s fire. |
A Great leader is The One who can show People that Their self-interest is different from that which They perceived |
A Great man is one who has not lost his child’s heart. |
A Great way to find out What You want from Life is to write Your own epitaph. |
A Greater Sculptor than a Rodin or a Michelangelo is Thought. What a man thinks in his heart he advertises with his face. |
A Habit cannot be tossed out of the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. |
A Hammer Sometimes misses Its mark —a bouquet never. |
A Husband is really broken in when he can understand every word his wife isn’t saying. |
A Kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that Every woman ought to know. |
A Letter is a soliloquy, but a letter with a postscript is a Conversation. |
A Little common sense, a little tolerance, a little good humor, and You Don’t know how comfortable You can make Yourself on this planet. |
A Little kindness from person to person is better than a vast „ love for all humankind. |
A Little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. |
A Little more determination, a little more pluck, a little more work —that’s luck. |
A Long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives It a superficial appearance of being right. |
A Long dispute means that both parties are wrong. |
A Man ’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed.. I well know.For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself. |
A Man can give thanks if, in his lifetime, he has found One wife, One friend and One cigarette lighter he can depend on. |
A Man doesn’t live by bread alone. He needs buttering up once in a while |
A Man in a passion rides a wild horse. |
A Man is all The older for The growing pleasure he takes in being told that he has a Youthful air about him. |
A Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Thoreau: |
A Man is that large irrational creature who is always looking for home atmosphere in a hotel, and hotel service around the house |
A Man likes You for What he thinks You are; a woman, for What You think she is. |
A Man must have It certain amount ‘of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. |
A Man never knows what he can do until he tries to undo what he has done. |
A Man should be like his tea: his real strength appearing When he gets into hot water. |
A Man should never be ashamed to admit he is in The wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. |
A Man who enjoys responsibility usually gets It. A Man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses It. |
A Man Will Sometimes devote all his life to The development of One part of his body—The wishbone |
A Man without mirth is like a wagon without springs. He is jolted disagreeably by every pebble in the road. |
A Miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant Man grows poor by seeming rich. |
A Nation without heroes is a nation without a future. |
A New Idea is delicate. It can be killed by .It can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown |
A Newspaper is a circulating library with high blood-pressure. |
A Pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. |
A Person may not be as good as You tell him He is, but He’ll try harder thereafter. |
A Person who talks about his inferiors hasn’t any |
A Person’s judgment is no better than his information. |
A Play is fiction—and fiction is fact distorted into truth. |
A Prayer must never be answered. If it is, it ceases to be a prayer and becomes correspondence. |
A Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. |
A Profit need not be without honor |
A Radical is a Man with both feet firmly planted in the air. |
A Religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be large enough for our needs. |
A Room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. |
A Saving grace of the adult condition is the capacity to be as amused by one’s own follies as by those of others. |
A Simple Life is Its own reward. |
A Sound marriage is not based on Complete frankness; It is based on a sensible reticence. |
A Speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start One, but to end It tidily requires considerable skill. |
A Stormy weather is what man needs, from time to time, to remind him that he is really not in charge of anything in this world. |
A strange thing about blunt people is that they come to the point first. |
A Successful man is One who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. |
A Television set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost ‘Every time. |
A Thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. |
A True conservationist is a Man who knows that the World is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his Children. |
A True gentleman is a Man who knows how to play the bagpipe —but doesn’t. |
A Truth that’s told with bad intent beats all The lies You can invent |
A Vacation having nothing to do and all day to do It in. |
A Wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. the order varies forr any given year . |
A Well adjusted person is One who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. |
A Woman happy with her husband is better for their children than a hundred books on child welfare. |
A Woman has reached real women’s-lib status When she is the One who forgets the wedding anniversary. |
A Woman is the only being that can skin a wolf and get a mink. |
A Woman looks another woman up and down to see what she is wearing; a man looks a woman up and down to see what she is clothing. |
Ability is a good thing.But stability is better. |
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation. |
About the only two things a child will willingly share are communicable diseases and his mother’s age. |
Absence is to love, what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small; it enkindles the great. |
Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from ,but not well enough to lend to. |
Add one small bit to the truth and you inevitably subtract from it. |
Adversity attracts the Man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility. |
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist.It reduces him to his fighting weight. |
Advice is like snow; the softer It falls, the longer It dwells upon and the deeper It sinks into the mind. |
Against Stupidity Even Gods fight in vain. |
Age does not protect you from love.But love, to some extent, protects you from age. |
Age improves wine, compound interest, and nothing else I can think of. |
Ah!, the insight of hindsight. |
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. |
Aim at Heaven and You will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and You get neither. |
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. |
All Mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable and those who move. |
All animals except Man, know that the principal business of Life is to enjoy it. |
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. |
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, appreciated a little |
All the good maxims have been written and spoken. It only remains to put them into practice. |
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. |
All Your fingernails grow with inconvenient speed except the broken One. |
Also constantly remember this rule:The more you think for yourself, the more marked will your individuality be. |
Always calculate your chances as 50: 50.Either something will happen, or it wont’. |
Always do right.This will gratify some people and astonish the rest |
Always do what you please ,and send everybody to Hell, and take the consequences.Damned Good rule of Life. |
Always put off until tomorrow What You shouldn’t do at all. |
Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator.; but among those whom I love, all of them make me laugh |
An advantage in growing older is that You can stand for more and fall for less. |
An aim in Life is the only fortune Worth finding |
An operation Which takes a doctor an hour to perform may take a patient years to describe |
Angels Fly.Because they take themselves lightly. |
Another person’s secret is like another person’s money: You are not as careful with It as You are with Your own. |
Anticipation is the magnifying glass of coming events. |
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. |
Anybody can be a Heart specialist. The only requirement is loving Somebody. |
Anybody who isn’t pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck. |
Anyone can prove He has good judgment by simply declaring that You have. |
Anyone who calls a rose by any other name is probably pruning. |
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. |
Art Doesn’t reproduce the visible, but makes visible. |
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. |
As Long as I have a want, I have reason for living. Satisfaction is death. |
As scarce as Truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand. |
As Soon as Eve ate the apple of wisdom, she reached for the fig leaf. When a woman begins to think, Her first thought is of a new dress. |
As Soon as there is Life there is danger. |
As we grow old, the beauty steals inwards. |
At times It is better to keep Your mouth shut and let People wonder If You’re a fool then to open It and remove all doubt. |
At War with Your vices, at peace with Your neighbors, and let Every new year find You a better Man. |
Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway. |
Automatic” simply means that You can’t repair It Yourself. |
Automation is a technological process that does all The work while You just sit There. When You were Younger, this was called “Mother.” |
Baby: One long alimentary canal, with a loud mouth at one end and no responsibility at the other. |
Bad Conscience is a conscience doing Its duty |
Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar to few. |
Be good. And you will be Lonesome. |
Be highly suspicious of any political or social group which never thinks there is anything funny about Itself and Its programmes |
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be : Since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. |
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning, and the rest of the day will take care of Itself. |
Be Yourself. Who else is better qualified? |
Because the way was steep and long , and through a strange and lonely land.God placed upon my lips a song ,And put a lantern in my hand |
Before You let Yourself go, be sure You can get Yourself back. |
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which You. need more. |
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman; After marriage, the “y” is silent. |
Begin not with a, programme, but with a deed. |
Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman. |
Being A woman is a terribly difficult task, since It consists principally in dealing with men. |
Being put on a pedestal has disadvantages which You’re apt to discover the first time You fail to watch Your step. |
Between dogma on One hand and skepticism on the other, there’s another way—open-minded uncertainty. |
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon. |
Beware of the chap who reminds You that You can’t take It with You. He’ll try to take It with him. |
Beware of those who laugh at nothing or at Everything. |
Bores can be divided into two classes : those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. |
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. the optimist invents the aero plane, the pessimist the parachute |
Bring in Ideas and entertain them royally, for One of them may be the king. |
Brooks become crooked from taking the path of least resistance. So do people. |
By Appreciation we make excellence in others our own property. |
By driving more slowly you can help preserve two of our valuable resources—petrol and you. |
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today’s playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. |
By the Streets of “by and by” One arrives at the house of “never.” |
By the time a Man realizes that maybe his father was right, He usually has a son who thinks He’s wrong. |
By the time we decide a television programmed is something the children shouldn’t see, were too interested in it ourselves to shut it off. |
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. |
Chance is the pseudonym of God When He did not want to sign |
Change. The only constant in maturity. |
Character is not so much taught as caught. Bishop McFerrin |
Cheerfulness, like spring, opens all The blossoms of The inward Man. |
Childhood : That happy period when nightmares occur only during sleep. |
Childhood shows the man ,as morning shows the day. |
Children and watches must not be constantly wound up–you must let them run. —Jean Paul |
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. |
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on Them makes an impression. |
Children sweeten labors ; But they make misfortunes more bitter . Francis Bacon |
City Life : Millions of people being lonesome together.. |
Civilisation is just a slow process of learning to be kind. |
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. |
Class .. Nobody is a gentleman when big money is involved |
Comfort comes as a guest, lingers to become a host and stays to enslave us. |
Confidence : That simple ,quiet, assured feeling you have , just before you fall flat on your face. |
Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. |
Contracting a real friendship is one of the most completely involuntary things a man can do. |
Conversation is like a boat—if everybody crowds on the same side, it sinks. It needs balance to keep afloat. |
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times–they had nobody to talk about. |
Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion. |
Cooperate !!! Remember the banana. Every time it leaves the bunch, it gets skinned. |
Countryman, scorning the light eater: What’s the good of keeping’ your figure if you isn’t got the strength to move it around? |
Courage : Fear that has said its prayers. |
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die. |
Courage is What It takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also What It takes to sit down and listen |
Crisis does not make the man.It only exposes him for what he already is. |
Crisis is the process by which we go from the transient to the permanent |
Criticism demands infinitely far more cultivation than creation does.(In The critic as an artist) |
Critics understand very Little.They have to be taught the long hard way.John Steinbeck |
Cross Your bridges before You come to them and You have to pay the toll twice. |
Culture :Roughly everything we do ,and the monkeys don’t. |
Culture is What Your butcher would have If He were a surgeon. |
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls; It’s the first way they learn to guess What a Man is going to do before He does It. |
Definition of successful people: They get up whenever they fall down. – Paul Harvey |
Delegating Works .Provided the one who delegates, works too. |
Delegating Works .Provided the one who delegates,works too. |
Democracy cannot survive without The guidance of a creative minority. |
Democracy is a method of getting ahead without leaving anyone behind. —Thomas Vernon Smith |
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences |
Democracy is The art of disciplining Oneself so that One need not be disciplined by others. |
Diamond is a chunk of coal hat made good under pressure. |
Diplomat:A Person who remembers a lady’s birthday ,but forgets her age. |
Discipline is like spinach. We may not care for It ourselves, but feel sure It would be good for Everybody else. |
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. |
Don’t expect a woman to honor Your privacy. She is liquid and, unless Your resolution is well caulked, she will seep through. |
Don’t let someone else create your world for you;For when they do ,they will always make it too small. |
Don’t meet trouble half-way. It is quite capable of making the entire journey. |
Don’t put off for tomorrow What You can do today, because You enjoy It today You can do It again tomorrow. |
Don’t take Life too seriously. You will never get out of It alive. |
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. |
Don’t be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much in life. |
Don’t go around saying the World owes You a living. the World owes You nothing. It was Here first. |
Don’t laugh at a youth at his affectations.He is only trying on one face after another to find his own. |
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. |
Don’t over-analyze Your marriage; It’s like yanking up a fragile indoor plant Every 20 minutes to see how Its roots are growing. |
Don’t take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. |
Dost Thou love Life? then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff Life is made of |
Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith ; It is an element of faith |
Dreaming permits each and Every One of us to be safely insane Every night of the week. |
Dreams can come true,If you don’t sleep too long. |
Drive slow and enjoy the scenery — drive fast and join the scenery |
Each 24 hours, the World turns over on Someone who was sitting on top of It. |
Each generation has to find out for itself that the stove is hot. |
Each of the arts has a critic , as it were , assigned to it. The actor is the critic of the drama. |
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and apt to mention it. |
Earnest People are often People who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side |
Economist: The man who knows more about money than the man who has it. |
Economists not only can’t agree on the answers, they can’t even agree on the problems either. |
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. |
Education is discipline for The adventure of life. |
Education is The ability to listen to almost anything without losing Your temper or Your self-confidence. |
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. —Robert Louis Stevenson |
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. Goethe |
Energy is important, but so is scenery. As a country philosopher once said, “Nobody ever travelled 500 kilometers to look at a kilowatt.” |
Entertaining would be a lot easier If You could Just convince Yourself that guests Don’t expect any more at Your house than You do at theirs. |
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. |
Even if You’re on The right track, You’ll get run over if You just sit There. |
Even The wisest men make fools of Themselves about women, and Even The most foolish women are wise about men. |
Every child born, comes along with the message that God is not yet discouraged of Man. |
Every man has the right to feel that “because of me was the world created.” |
Every Man in this World reaps What he sows–except The amateur gardener. |
Every Man is dangerous who only cares for one thing. |
Every man is limited by three things:The knowledge in his mind.The strength of his character.The principles upon which he is building his life. |
Every man should marry.After all, happiness is not the only thing in life |
Every Man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a-cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. |
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. |
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. |
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. |
Everybody wants sympathy, but nobody wants people feeling sorry for them. |
Everyone wants the government to be bold and imaginative and infallible—all at the same time It will never happen. |
Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure. |
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone. |
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. |
Everything gets easier with practice—except getting up in the Morning. |
Everything is much simpler today; instead of solving a, problem, you just subsidize it. |
Everything should be made as simple as possible.But not simpler.. Einstein |
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. |
Face powder may win a husband ,but it takes baking powder to hold him. |
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
Faith is intellect on the wing. |
Faith is the soul riding at anchor |
Faith is to believe What we do not see, and- the reward of this faith is to see What we believe. |
Faith is What makes You feel the comfort of the, Hearth while You’re chopping the wood. |
Fame can come in a moment.But Greatness takes time. |
Favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save People |
Feeling let down today ? Try looking up. |
Feminine intuition is a fiction and a fraud. It is nonsensical, illogical, emotional, ridiculous—and practically foolproof. |
Feminine logic is fallacious, inconsistent, irrelevant, capricious, transparent–and –irrefutable |
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness—and fewer those who have taken that chance |
Few People know how to hold a meeting. Even fewer know how to let It go. |
Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon |
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. |
Fiction reveals Truths that reality obscures. |
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until It finally disappears. |
Fish for no compliments: they are generally caught in shallow water. |
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. |
Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. |
For Every action there is an equal but opposite reaction—especially on Mondays. |
For Happiness One needs security, but joy can spring like a flower Even from the cliffs of despair. |
FOR happiness, it isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. |
For Travel to be delightful, One must have a good place to leave and return to. |
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. |
Forgive Your enemies—If You can’t get back at them any other way. |
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. |
Friends : Gods apology for our relations. |
Friendship ,after all ,is what life is finally about. Everything material and professional exists in the end for persons. |
Frustration is not having anyone to blame but Yourself. |
Gentleman : Someone who can disagree without being disagreeable. |
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong.They are conflicts between two rights. |
Girls Who wear zippers shouldn’t live alone |
Given a strong hub, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage. |
Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses. |
Go often to the house of thy friend.For weeds choke an unused path. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
God Almighty first planted a garden. And, indeed, It is the purest of human pleasures. |
God asks no Man whether He will accept Life. That is not the choice. One must take It. the only choice is how. |
God could not be everywhere.Therefore he made mothers. |
God needed only six days to create the world, but He had the advantage of working alone. |
God never quits on you.Don’t you quit on God. |
God offers to Every mind Its choice between Truth and repose. take which You please—You can never have both. |
God will not look upon you over for medals ,degrees or diplomas, but for scars. |
Gods’ Love is unconditional.Gods’ promises are conditional.Mans’ error is in transposing them |
Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a Manner that leaves nothing unsaid |
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are, than we had supposed. |
Great joys, like grief’s, are silent. |
Great men have ideas. Lesser men make them explode. The least men get the triggers: |
Greatness consists in trying to be great. ‘there is no other way. |
Grow angry slowly —there’s plenty of time. |
Growing old.. In other words ….is not growing up. |
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell |
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables, |
Half of art is knowing When to stop. |
Happiness ; Is Good health and a bad memory ..Ingrid Berman |
Happiness is being married to Your best friend. |
Happiness is in waiting, but Children, alas, Don’t know It. |
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory . |
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. |
Happiness.Something that comes into our lives through a door we don’t remember leaving open. |
Happiness.That peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. |
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide. |
Have the courage to be poor, and you disarm poverty ,of its sharpest sting. |
He Approaches nearest to the Gods who knows how to be silent, Even though He is in the right.. |
He paints the lily of the field, Perfumes each lily bell …If He so loves the little flower …I know He loves me well. |
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if you weigh it rightly, liberal of another man’s goods rather than his own. |
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. |
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills.Our antagonist is our helper.Edmund Burke |
He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping. |
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool for ever. |
He who believes in nothing still needs a girl to believe in him. |
He who blows his stack adds to The World’s pollution. |
He who cannot forgive others destroys The bridge over which he himself must pass. |
He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right. |
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. |
He who is carried on another’s back does not appreciate how far off the town is. |
He who is impatient waits twice |
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it. |
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander |
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout. |
He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. |
He woo mistrusts most should be trusted least. |
Health is a crown on a well Man’s Head, but no One can see It but a sick Man |
Heaven often seems distant and unknown. But if He who made the road ,is our guide, is there a fear of our losing the way ? |
Hell is waiting Without hope. |
Here’s to your love, health, and wealth — and time to enjoy each.(Spanish proverb) |
Here’s one thing to be said for inviting trouble: it generally accepts. |
Hillel, a Jewish teacher famous at the time of Christ’s birth: If I am not for myself, who will be? But if I am only for myself, what am I? |
Him That I love, I wish to be free—Even from me. |
Hippies are lost sheep masquerading as shepherds |
History is The transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. |
History repeats Itself. That’s One of the things wrong with history. |
Honesty once pawned is never redeemed |
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. |
Horse sense means seeing things two ways — how You want them to be and how they have to be. |
Hospitality must be extended Even towards an enemy who comes to Your house; the tree does not withdraw Its shade from the woodcutter |
How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it. |
How can You govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese(France) |
How often are we offended by not being offered Something we do not really want. |
How strange to use “You only live once” as an excuse to throw Life away. |
How well You like hard work often depends on whether You are doing It or paying for It. |
How You spend Your time is more important than how You spend Your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone for ever |
Humility is a strange thing. The minute You think You’ve got It, You’ve lost It. |
Humility is like underwear—essential, but indecent if it shows. |
Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt |
Humor is an affirmation of dignity. A declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.Romain Gary |
I am a believer in punctuality, though it makes me very lonely. |
I am an enemy to long explanations; they deceive the maker or the hearer, generally both. |
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by It I might have been saved from Some of my most valuable mistakes. |
I believe in immortality of the soul because I have in me,immortal longings. |
I believe that genius is an infinite capacity for taking Life by the scruff of the neck. |
I don’t ask you to be unafraid-Simply to act unafraid. |
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work.I want to achieve it through not dying. |
I don’t believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. |
I don’t believe in the generation gap. I believe in regeneration gaps. Each day You regenerate—or else You’re not living. |
I don’t like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell—You see, I have friends in both places. |
I don’t mind living in a Man’s World as long as I can be a woman in It. |
I don’t say a dress should be tight, but I do think that when a woman gets into a dress, we should have some idea of where she is |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. |
I have always Held firmly to the thought that each One of us can do a little to bring Some portion of misery to an end. |
I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. |
I have never in my life thought things out, nor have I known anybody who did. I have always had to live them out, thinking as I went along. |
I have never let my schooling interfere with my Education |
I have never met a Man who has given me as much trouble as myself. |
I have yet to be bored by Someone paying me a compliment. |
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of Silence is large enough beyond the grave. |
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him |
I love Children. they do not prattle of yesterday: their interests are all of today and the tomorrows. |
I must do Something’ will always solve more problems than “Something must be done.” |
I ought, therefore I can. |
I Read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all this I try to form an idea in which I can put as much common sense as I can. |
I start the summer travelling,” naturalist Louis Agassiz once said, “I got half-way across my back garden.” |
I Still live in and on the sunshine of my childhood |
I think It Somewhere must be written,. that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their Children, as well as the sins of the fathers |
I think The next best thing to solving a problem is finding Some humor in It. |
I use not only all The brains I have; but all I can borrow. |
I was born in a very fortunate age. The term “juvenile delinquent” wasn’t thought of. They were just known as pests. |
I would rather be a poor Man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. |
I would rather lose in a cause that will One day win than win in a carne that Will Some day lose. |
Ideas should be received guests—in a friendly way, but with the reservation that they are not to tyrannize their host. |
If a child lives with approval, He learns to like himself. |
If a Man can see both sides of a problem, You know that none of his money is tied up in It. |
If a Man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him |
If a man over 40 , still has his appendix and his tonsils, the chances are that he is a doctor. |
If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light the air would be! |
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love Only others, he cannot love at all. |
If at first You do succeed, try, try not to be a bore. |
If at first You Don’t succeed, You’ll get a lot of unsolicited advice |
If It is true the mind is like a sponge, I wish I could squeeze mine out once in a while and get rid of stuff I Don’t need any more. |
IF It wasn’t for The optimist, The pessimist would never know how happy he wasn’t. |
If men had no faith in one another, all of us would have to live within our own income. |
If men had no faith in one another, all of us would have to live within our own income. |
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. |
If One Man calleth thee a donkey, pay him no mind. If two men calleth thee a donkey, get thee a saddle |
If people only made prudent marriages, What a stop to population there would be! |
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. —Elbert Hubbard |
If swimming is good for the figure , then how do you explain the whale ? |
If the only place People can find to live in is unused water pipes, then the authorities should at least stack them conveniently. |
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years,How would men believe and adore !! |
If there is no wind, row. |
If there’s “always room at the top.” why is there so much shoving going on up there? |
If there’s one thing that makes a husband angrier than his wife refusing in tell him where the money went. it’s her telling him. |
If Thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his Children a drum. |
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that ,only one of them is doing all the thinking:Lyndon Johnson |
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts, but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in Them, we shall end in certainties. |
If we do not go out into the World and call Every Man our brother, there are those who will go out and call him “comrade,” |
If we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. |
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at It. |
If you are good man you want a bad one to convert; If you are a bad man you want a bad one to go out on a spree with. |
If you can be deceived, you can be conquered. |
If you can find a path with no obstacles, It probably doesn’t lead anywhere |
If you can give your son only one gift,Let it be enthusiasm. |
If you can keep your head while others are losing theirs, Perhaps you do not understand the situation |
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. |
If you Don’t get What You want It is a sign that You did not seriously want It or that You tried to bargain over the price |
If you have never been amazed by the fact that you exist,you are squandering the greatest fact of all. |
If you lend a friend fifty rupees and you never see him again,it is worth it. |
If you lie down with the dogs, you will get up with the fleas. |
If you must talk about your troubles, don’t bore your friends with them—tell them to your enemies, who will be delighted to hear about them. |
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, You can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach You |
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive |
If you think Education is expensive,Try Ignorance. |
If you think you have someone eating out of your hand, it’s a good idea to count your fingers. |
If You treat a sick child like all adult and a sick adult like a child, Everything Usually works well. |
If You want Children to improve, let them overhear the nice things You say about them to others. |
If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it’s, yours for ever. If it doesn’t, it was never yours to begin with. |
If you want to discover your true opinion of anybody, observe the impression made on you by the first sight of a letter from him. |
If you want to recapture Your Youth, just cut off his allowance. |
If you wish to be great, be self-effacing and humble. the tree laden with fruit always bends low. |
If you wish to make a Man Your enemy, tell him simply, “You are wrong.” This method works Every time. |
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are. |
IF you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards |
If your spirits are low, DO Something; if You have been doing Something, do Something different. |
Ignorance , like silence, is a marvelous sanctuary, protecting. one from all the rebellions, all the aversions, all the protests of one’s conscience. |
Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution. |
Ignorance is not bliss—It is oblivion. |
I’m A Slow walker. but I never walk back. |
I’m French, so I never discuss politics, cooking or women. I simply enjoy all three.” CHARLES BOYER : “ |
Imagination consoles people for what they cannot be.Humor ,for what they actually are. |
Imagination is as good as Many voyages—and much cheaper. |
Imagination is what makes you think you’re having a wonderful time when you’re really only spending money. |
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. |
In all pessimism there is wisdom, but It is sterile wisdom; in all optimism there is in madness, but It is creative madness. |
In free countries, Every Man is entitled to express his opinions—and Every Other Man is entitled not to listen. |
In growing older, we’re supposed to get more likes a ‘peach as we get more like a prune out-side.; otherwise, What’s-the point? |
In Individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties nations and epochs, It is The rule. |
In its long quest for World peace, Russia has always stuck to Its guns. |
In Marriage It is not as important to pick the right person as to be the right partner. |
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. |
In Rivers, The water that You touch is The last of What has passed and The first of that which comes: so with present time. |
In the courtroom of conscience, we call only witnesses to The defense. |
In the presence of trouble, some people grow wings; others buy crutches. |
In this age of reality some men will never believe that lead can be transmuted into gold—until they get a bill from the plumber. |
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. |
Inequality of knowledge is the key to a sale. |
Inflation is being broke with a lot of money in Your pocket. |
Inflation is like getting stuck in a traffic jam. You find You are part of The problem, but You can’t work out What to do about It. |
Inflation is when half of your salary goes for food and shelter and the other half does, too. |
Inflation is when half of your salary goes for food and shelter and the other half does, too. |
Inflation might be called prosperity with high blood pressure. |
Instinct is the nose of the mind. |
Intuition is reason in a hurry. |
Is it not frightening that such narrow limits have been set to human wisdom and none at all to human foolishness ? |
Isaac Newton, when asked how he had discovered the law of gravitation, replied, “By thinking about it all the time.” |
It is wisdom to believe The heart. |
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. |
It is a good thing to read between the lines; It tires the eyes less. |
It is a small World —until It comes to driving in from The airport. |
It is a wise plan to let The cat out of The bag Yourself. Otherwise The neighbors will do It for You, and by that time The cat may have kittens. |
It is a wise wife who knows When to overlook and When to oversee. |
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet,Neither thirsty nor drunken. |
It is better to burn The candle at both ends, and in The middle. too, than to put It away in The cupboard and let The mice eat It. |
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. —Samuel Johnson |
It is discouraging to think how Many People are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. |
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before. |
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is the proper judge of it.(in The critic as an artist) |
It is fine to believe in ourselves: but we mustn’t be too easily convinced. |
It is generally agreed that society is at a crossroads—but There is a difference of opinion as to What The signposts say. |
It is hard to know exactly When One generation ends, and the next One begins. But It’s Somewhere around nine o’clock at night. |
It is in spending Oneself that One becomes rich. |
It is no longer true that He who steals Your purse steals trash. If It’s full of credit cards He gets Your money and Your good name. |
It is no small art to sleep; to achieve It One must keep awake all day. |
It is no use trying to be clever – We are all clever here . Just try to be kind .. A Little kind |
It is not doing The thing we like to do, but liking The thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. |
It is not miserable to be blind; It is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. |
It Is not the employer who pays wages—he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. |
It is not the river that runs, but the water. It’s not time that passes, but us. |
It is Perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. |
It is seldom possible to pay back obligation direct; one has usually to be content with passing it on. |
It is so easy to pick out the best people.They’ll help you do it. Always. |
It is the Man who waits for his ship to come in who’s always missing the boat |
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. |
It is very easy to forgive others Their mistakes; It takes more grit and gumption to forgive Them for having witnessed Your own. |
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. |
It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear You out. It’s the grain of sand in Your shoe. |
It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing. |
It seems that the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. |
It wasn’t too long ago that you could finance a pretty good war for what six months of peace costs today. |
It You can’t make a mistake, You can’t make anything. |
Jealousy arises from a lack of confidence, not in others, but in oneself. |
Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting One big One to come along |
Just because a rumor is idle It doesn’t mean It isn’t working. |
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Charles Schulz: (1922-2000) US cartoonist |
Just remember—When You think all is lost, the future remains. |
Just When You think You’ve graduated from the college of experience, Someone thinks up a new course. |
Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for It. |
Keep Your fears to Yourself, but share Your Courage with others. |
Kindness is never wasted. If It has no effect on the recipient, at least It benefits the bestower |
Kissing is a means of getting two People so close together that They can’t see anything wrong with each other. |
Kites rush highest against The wind—not with It. |
Knowing You’ll have Something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations |
Knowledge cannot make us all leaders, but It can Help us decide which leader to follow. |
Lack of Something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a Man may have |
Laugh and the World laughs with You; snore- and You sleep alone |
Laughter is The shortest distance between two People. |
Laughter is The sun that drives winter from The human face. |
Learning is often the enemy of initiative. |
Learning is often the enemy of initiative. |
Leisure Time is no longer a problem. Thanks to modern methods of transport, You use It all up getting to and from work |
Let early education be a sort of amusement :You will then be better able to find out the natural bent |
Let not thy will roar, When thy power can but whisper. |
Let us a little permit Nature take Her own way; she better understands Her own affairs than we. |
Let us be of good cheer,remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. |
Letter Writing is the only device for combining solitude and good company. —Lord Byron |
Life can only be understood backwards, but It must be lived forwards. |
Life demands from you only the strength you possess.Only one feat is possible-Not to have run away |
Life is the art of drawing sufficient concluSions from insufficient premises. —Samuel Butler |
Life is a great big Canvas.Throw all the paint at it. |
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. |
Life is like an onion; You peel It off One layer at a time, and Sometimes You weep. |
Life is like music. It must be composed by car, feeling and instinct, not by rule. |
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as One goes on. |
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. |
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I always intended to know better. Yesterday he died. |
Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon |
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. |
Life’s greatest tragedy is to lose God and not to miss Him |
Light is good in Whatever lamp It may burn, Even as a rose is beautiful in Whatever garden It may bloom. |
Lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep. |
Listening to both sides of a story will convince You that there is more to a story than both sides. |
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up |
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun |
Loneliness is not so much a matter of isolation as of insulation. |
Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. Anti when we are right, make us easy to live with. |
Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune. |
Love cures People—both the Ones who give It and the Ones who receive It. |
Love does not consist in gazing at each other.But in looking outward together in the same direction. |
Love doesn’t make The World go round. Love is What makes The ride worthwhile. |
Love is like being 16: it can never be completely forgotten, or wholly remembered. |
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases. |
Love is The only thing that increases When we share It with others |
Love Letters are the campaign promises of the Heart. |
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. |
Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers. |
Luck means being in the right place at the right time |
Luxuries are What other People buy. |
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience If only One had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. |
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill. |
Make money .. and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. |
Make other people like themselves a little better, my son, and I promise you they will like you very well. |
Make the most of Your regrets. To regret deeply is to live afresh. |
Making marriage work is like running a farm. You have to start all over again each morning. |
MAKING UP your mind is like making a bed; it usually helps to have someone on the other side. |
Man – Born to be wild –Has to Live, to outgrow it. |
Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both The marble and The sculptor. |
Man had hardly built the first cities before He began to try to, get away from them. |
Man is Always ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. |
Man is born to live , Not prepare for Life. |
Man was born only with two fears :Those of loud noise and of falling down.Every other fear must be learnt |
Mankind’s happiest times are the blank pages in history. |
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to Its original dimensions. |
Many Great ideas have been lost because the People who had them couldn’t stand being laughed at. |
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing. |
Many People live under The illusion that They have none. |
Many things —such as loving, going to sleep or behaving unaffectedly -are done worst When we try hardest to do them. |
March is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb—Just like Someone demanding a raise. |
Marriage : A union of two good forgivers. |
Marriage is like ordering dinner in a restaurant. You always think You made the right choice until You see What the other fellow has. |
Marriage is the alliance of two people ;one of whom never remembers birthdays..and the other who never forgets. |
Marriage should combat without respite that monster which devours everything—habit. |
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquires an account the florist had. |
Maturity begins to grow When You can sense Your concern for others outweighing Your concern for Yourself. |
Maturity begins when we are content to feel we are right about something,without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong |
Maybe they call it Take home pay because there is no other place you can afford to go, with it ? |
Men And nations act wisely, once all other alternatives have been eliminated |
Men are like record players. they may play at different speeds, but are nice to have around whether they are 33, 45 or 78. |
Men are Sometimes cruel, but Man is kind. Men are Sometimes needy, but Man is generous. men are mortal, but Man is immortal |
Men exist for each other.Then either they improve them or put up with them |
Men kick friendship around like a football, but It doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat It like glass and It goes to pieces. |
Men may be convinced, but they cannot be pleased, against their Will |
Men often mistake notoriety for fame and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all. |
Men who deserve monuments do not need Them. |
Middle Age is that perplexing time of Life When we Hear two voices calling us, One saying Why not ?” and the, other; Why bother ?” |
Middle Age is When You know all the answers and nobody ever asks You the questions. |
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else |
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms |
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. |
Military justice is to justice, what military music is to music.Groucho Marx |
Miracles Sometimes occur, but One has to work terribly hard for them. |
Misfortunes One can endure — they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for One’s Own faults –ah ! there is the sting of Life |
Mistakes are to Life What shadows are to light. |
Modern history ought not to be written in anything but pencil. |
Modern Paintings are like women. You’ll never enjoy them If You try to understand them. |
Money can’t buy love, Health, happiness, or What It did last year. |
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. |
Money in Your pocket, You are wise and You are handsome and You sing well, too. |
Money is money. Beans tonight and steak tomorrow.So long as you can look yourself in the eye. |
Money nowadays seems to produced with a natural timing instinct for the Treasury. |
Morale, is When Your hands and feet keep on Working When Your Head says It can’t be done |
Most fur coats come from the male animal. |
Most husbands are generous to a fault-especially if the fault is their own. |
Most ignorance is visible ignorance: We Don’t know because we Don’t want to know |
Most men need two women in their lives, a secretary to take Everything down and a wife to pick Everything up: |
Most of The change we think we see in life is due to Truths being in and out of favor |
Most of The shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. |
Most of us keep one eye on the temptation We pray not to be led into. |
Most of us spend the first six days of each, week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure |
Most people stop smoking in two stages: first they give up their cigarettes, then they give up yours. |
Most People would rather defend to the death Your right to say It than listen to It |
Motoring is like Russian roulette—You never know which driver is loaded. |
Much of the good work of the world has been that of dull people who have done their best. |
Music is essentially Useless .As Life is.George Santayana |
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or a sarcastic thing. |
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or a sarcastic thing. |
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life |
Music….Love looking for words…Lawrence Durell |
My books are water.Those of great geniuses is wine.Everybody drinks Water.Mark Twain |
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! |
My Grandfather always said that Living is like licking honey off a thorn. |
My interest is in the future—because I’m going to spend the rest of my Life there. |
My son is my son till I have got him a wife.But my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life |
Nature does make mistakes: Sometimes she puts all the bones in the Head and none in the back. |
Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little. |
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but If You want to test a Man’s character, give him power. |
Necessity is the plea for Every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; It is the creed of slaves. |
Never trust Someone who has to change his tone to ask Something of the Lord. |
Never accept a flattery as though it were a compliment.And never treat a compliment as though it were mere flattery. |
Never bow to Authority . But always remember to tip your hat. |
Never cut What You can untie. |
Never give a Man up until He has failed at Something He likes |
Never give your boy, all the allowance you can afford. Keep back some to bail him out. |
Never give your boy, all the allowance you can afford.Keep back some to bail him out. |
Never Go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. |
Never insult an alligator until after You have crossed the river. |
Never lose sight of the fact that Old age requires so little,But requires that little, so much. |
Never think of The future. It comes soon enough. |
Never try to make anyone like Yourself —You know, and God knows, that One of You is enough |
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. |
New York : A great city. A great solitude. |
News like substances, ought to be divided into solids, fluids and gases—and appropriately labeled as such for publication |
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the World is power without humor. |
Next to the dog, Man’s best friend is the waste-paper basket. |
Next to the wound, What women make best is the bandage. |
Night : Conceals a World. Reveals a Universe. |
Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in Life because we Don’t ask enough of It. |
No Foreign policy—no matter how ingenious—has any chance of success If It is born in the minds of a few and carried in the Hearts of none. |
No generalization is wholly true, including this one. |
No Man can be called friendless When he ‘has God and The companionship of good books. |
No Man is a hero to his wallet |
No Man is exempt from saying silly things. The misfortune is to say Them painstakingly. |
No Man is really old until his mother stops worrying about him. |
No Man is The whole of himself; his friends are The rest of him. |
No Man who is in a hurry is quite civilized |
No Matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. – Abraham Lincoln |
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt. |
No One ever really paid The price of a book—only The price of printing It. |
No One so thoroughly, appreciates The value of constructive criticism as The One who’s giving It. |
No pillow is as soft as a clear conscience. |
No work of Art is ever Completed.Only abandoned….Paul Valery |
Nobody knows the trouble we’ve seen—but we keep trying to tell them. |
Noise proves Nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. |
Nostalgia isn’t What It used to be. |
Not ignorance, but the ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge |
Not Keeping an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time. |
Not may sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at The door. |
Not to be greedy , is equivalent to wealth.Not to buy compulsively , is equivalent to an income. |
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. |
Not Work, but the thought that He must work is What makes the lazy Man tired. |
Nothing in nature is more beautiful than One snowflake, but unfortunately they seldom come like that. |
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no Proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. |
Nothing is a greater impediment to being, on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself . |
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. |
Nothing is more confusing than the fellow who gives good advice, but sets a bad example. |
Nothing is small in love. Those who wait for great occasions to demonstrate Their tenderness Don’t know how to love. |
Nothing lowers The level of conversation more than raising The voice. |
Nothing makes It easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values—and witnesses. |
Nothing so needs reforming as other People’s habits. |
Nothing was made in vain, but The fly came near to It. |
Nowadays women Don’t hire domestic Help—they marry It. |
Of a sane man there is only one definition.He is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head |
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness |
Of all the liars in the World, Sometimes the worst are Your own fears. |
Of all the ways to make Your fortune, the quickest and the best is to make People see clearly how much Your success is in their interest. |
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest. |
Oh , What a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their Children are naive. |
Old Age is having too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet. |
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. |
Old Age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. —Leon Trotsky |
Old Age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. |
Once we assuage our conscience by calling Something a “necessary evil,” It begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil |
Once You have become a master in a thing, You should come a pupil in Something else |
One Always tends to over praise a long book because One has got through It. |
One nice thing about growing older is that You and Your Children Eventually wind up on The same side of The generation gap. |
One of The best ways to persuade others – is with Your ears—by listening to Them. |
One of the marks of a gentleman is never to show that he’s tired. |
One of the striking differences be-tween a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. |
One of These days is none of These days. |
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who only have interests. |
One thing that the discovery of the North Pole proved is that no one is sitting on top of the world |
One thing’s sure about stardom. It doesn’t come in a twinkle! |
One Trouble with The World today is that There are too Many People in It who are willing to put in Their oars but not willing to row. |
One Way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him. |
One Way You can often do more for Your child is to do less. |
Only a born artist can endure the labour of becoming one.Comtesse Diane |
Only A strict individual conscience makes possible a solid social conscience. |
Only he, who has seen better days, and lives to see good days again ,knows their full value. Mark Twain |
Opportunities are never lost. the other fellow takes those You miss |
Our mistakes are easier to forgive than The means by which we try to whitewash Them. |
Our relationships with others are reflections of our relationship with God |
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. |
Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if you bear in mind that it has its limits and if you add nothing to it in imagination. |
Parents never fully appreciate teachers unless It rains all weekend. |
Parents These days scarcely bring up Children; They finance Them. |
Patience is Something You admire in the driver behind You and scorn in the One ahead. |
Patience is the ability to put up with People You’d like to put down |
Peace comes not from the absence of conflict in Life but from the ability to cope with It |
People , want peace so much that governments had better get out of Their way and let Them have It |
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage |
People fail in direct proportion to their willingness to accept socially acceptable excuses for failure.- |
People fail in direct proportion to their willingness to accept socially acceptable excuses for failure.- |
People put as much ego into Their cars as They do petrol.. |
People so often play up The bad side of things. Nobody ever puts up a sign that says “Nice Dog.” |
People who emphatically protest that They are putting all Their cards on The table usually put Them There face down. |
People who have no trouble separating The men from The boys are called women. |
People who have wild ideas about how to run The earth ought to start with a small garden |
People who insist on telling Their dreams are among The terrors of The breakfast table. |
People who invite trouble always complain When It accepts. |
People who make music together cannot be enemies ,Atleast not while the music lasts.Paul Hindemith |
People who snore always fall asleep first. |
People who tell You never to let little things bother You have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito. |
People who want by The yard but try by The inch should be kicked by The foot. |
People will buy anything that’s One to a customer. |
People would not get divorced for such trivial reason if they did not get married for such trivial reason, in the first place |
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. |
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as The public library. The only entrance requirement is interest. |
Perhaps There’s no better way to stay Young than by saving The energy You would use in trying to. |
Persons with any weight of character ,like planets ,their atmosphere along with them in their orbits. |
Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmosphere along with them in their orbits |
Piling up knowledge is as bad as piling up money. You have begin Sometime to use What You know. |
Plan ahead—It wasn’t raining When Noah built the Ark. |
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. |
Poise is that quality which enables You to buy a pair of shoes without seeming conscious of the hole in Your stocking. |
Politeness is The art of selecting among One’s real thoughts. |
Politeness is to human nature What warmth is to wax. |
Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where You want to go, and partly where the damned things take You. |
Praise does wonders for the sense of Hearing. |
Praise is like chewing gum.Meant to be enjoyed. Not swallowed. |
Prayer : Key of the morning.Bolt of the evening. |
Prayer changes things? No I Prayer changes people, and people change things. |
Prejudice is a disease characterized by hardening of the categories. |
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. |
Probably a Man’s most profitable words are those spent praising his wife. |
Problems are The price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble |
Procrastination : is the art of keeping up with yesterday. |
Professional football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.. |
Pull Yourself together” is seldom said to anyone who can. |
Puritanism is the haunting fear that Someone, Somewhere, may be happy. |
Putting pen to paper lights more fires than matches ever will. |
Quite a few people are already working a four-day week. The trouble is that it takes them five or six days to do it. |
Rare is The person who can weigh The faults of others with out putting his thumb on The scales |
Real Freedom is won through self-government, not through self-expression. |
Real friends are those who, when you have made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. |
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. |
Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. |
Regard him that speaks ill of you, when you are innocent,more worthy of forgiveness than him who carried the report to you. |
Regret is an appalling waste of energy.Cannot build on it.Good only for wallowing in. |
Religion is caught not taught. |
Religion is a thing of our own invention. What kind of truth is it that is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other ? |
Religion should be our steering wheel ; Not our spare Tyre. |
Remember When atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? |
Repetition in nature may be a mere recurrence. It ay be a theatrical “encore.” |
Resisting temptations is usually Just a matter of putting It off until nobody’s looking. |
Resolutions are like eels—easy to catch, but hard to hang on to. |
Retirement: Takes all the fun out of Saturdays. |
Rudeness is a weak man’s imitation of strength. |
SAVAGE : One who does not wear uncomfortable clothes. |
School is a building that has four walls—with tomorrow inside. |
Science is organized knowledge, Wisdom is organized Life. |
Science may never come up with better office communication system than the tea break |
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. —Albert Einstein |
Security depends not so much upon how much You have as upon how much You can do with-out. |
Seek not Every quality in One individual. |
Self delusion is pulling in Your stomach When You step on the scales. |
Selfishness is a gift of nature. Unselfishness is an accomplishment. |
Sentimentality is no indication of a warm heart. Nothing weeps more copiously than a chunk of ice |
Serving God is doing good to Man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen. |
Shall I tell you what I think are the two essential qualities of Art? It must be indescribable and it must be inimitable.Renoir |
Show me a Man who is a good loser and I’ll show You a Man who is playing golf with his boss. |
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”- C. G. Jung (1875-1961) |
Silence is not always tact; and It is tact that is golden, not Silence. |
Silence is One of The hardest arguments to refute. |
Silence is The ocean in which all The rivers of all The religions discharge Themselves. |
Silence is The unbearable repartee. |
Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation, |
Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy? |
Sincerity resembles a Spice. Too much repels You and too little leaves You wanting. |
Sleep riches and Health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. |
Small deeds done are better than -great deeds planned. |
Small worries are like gnats; movement and activity disperse them, |
Smetimes the man of action is just a fellow who got both his feet in hot water. |
Smile : A light in the window of the face which shows that the heart is at home. |
Soap and Education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. |
Some cause happiness wherever they go. Some whenever they go. |
Some men have acted courage who had It not; but no Man can act wit. |
Some men work hard and save money so their sons won’t have the problems that made men of their fathers. |
Some novels you just can’t put down. Others you don’t dare to—if there are children in the house. |
Some of The greatest love affairs I’ve known have involved One actor—unassisted. |
Some of The songs making The rounds now will be popular When Bach, Beethoven and Wagner are forgotten—but not before |
Some People have all The luck. And They’re The Ones who never depend on It. |
Some People have to be out on a limb before They’ll turn over a new leaf. |
Some People regard discipline as a chore. For me, It is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. |
Some People suffer in Silence louder than others. |
Some People, When They hear an echo, think They originated The sound |
Some People’s idea of keeping secret is lowering Their voices |
Some Pursue happiness ; Others create it. |
Sometimes It’s better to compromise—like giving a gunman Your wallet without approving What He’s doing. |
Sometimes You think the whole World is falling, and It’s only Yourself that’s leaning. |
Space travel is Even more hazardous than It looks. the way population is increasing, You could come back and ,find Your place taken. |
Speak When You are angry and You will make the best speech You will ever regret |
Stability is not immobility. |
Staring up to admire One’s own halo create a pain in the neck. |
Stones that critics hurl with harsh intent a Man may use to build his monument. |
Straight from the shoulder ” politicians should talk from a little higher up. |
Strange ,that men call money “dough”.Dough sticks to your fingers. |
Strange how much You’ve got to know before You know how little You know. |
Strength is tested by resistance to pressure.True of Marriage ,Friendships and Character. |
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with Your bare hands—and then eat Just One of the pieces. |
Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. |
Success : Is Failure turned inside out. |
Success doesn’t always go to The head. Sometimes It goes to The mouth. |
Success is a relative term. It brings in so many relatives. |
Success is knowing the difference between cornering people and getting them in your own corner. |
Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure |
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change-From lesser to greater.From smaller to bigger. |
Sympathy is two Hearts tugging at One load. |
Tact fails the moment It is noticed. |
Take a lesson from the whale: the only time He gets harpooned is When He comes up to spout |
Taste …… the sign of an educated mind.Imagination …… the sign of a productive man. Emotional balance……..the token of a mature man. |
Temper as a quality that at a critical moment brings out the best in steel and the worst in People. |
Temper is a valuable possession: Don’t lose It. |
Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately been left open. |
Temptations are like tramps: treat One well, and He’ll return—with his friends |
Ten Years ago the moon was an inspiration to lovers and poets. Ten years from now It will be Just another airport |
That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen When He is with us and think When He is gone. |
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. |
The Ability to laugh together is the essence of love |
The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve. |
The art of contentment is the art of feeling life is good, at least for the day, or the hour.The sources of this feeling are usually, the simplest. |
The barbarism of our time is the more appalling because so Many People are not really appalled by It. |
The battle of the sexes will never be won by either side; there is too much fraternizing with the enemy. |
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. |
The best motorist drives with imagination: he imagines that his family is in The car. |
The best reason for keeping your chin up when in trouble is that it keeps the mouth closed. |
The best thing about growing older is that It takes such a long time |
The best things in Life are free, of course, but isn’t It a pity that most of the next-best things are so expensive? |
The best time for parents to put the children to bed is while they still have the strength. |
The best way to know God is to love Many things. |
THE big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting. |
The bird a nest, the spider a web, Man friendship. |
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions |
The Chinese language has no separate word for crisis: the ideograph for danger and that for opportunity must be combined to make crisis. |
The color of Truth is grey. |
The Critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. |
The darker phase in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it. |
The degree of One’s emotion varies inversely with One’s knowledge of the facts–the less You know the hotter You get |
The difference between Heresy and prophecy is often One a sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy |
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend One’s opinion but rather to know It. |
The dissatisfaction which Every artist feels at The completion of a work forms The germ of a new work. |
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. |
The essence of courage is not that your heart should not quake but that nobody else should know that it does. |
The fate of civilization is like needlework. You can take it up at and worry about it at odd moments. |
The fate of civilization is like needlework. You can take it up at and worry about it at odd moments.Frank Sullivan. |
The fellow who owns his own home is always Just coming out of a hardware store, |
The finest fruit of serious learning should be the ability to speak the word GOD without reserve or embarrassment. |
The first step in aesthetic criticism is to realize one’s own impressions. |
The foolish person seeks Happiness in the distance; the wise person grows It under his feet. |
The future is going to depend not so much on What happens in outer space as on What happens in inner space—the space between our ears. |
The Genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time |
The Golden Age was never The present age. |
The Golden rule of friend-ship is to listen to others as You would have them listen to You. |
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know When to leave off. |
The greatest blessing of our Democracy is freedom. But in The last analysis our only freedom is The freedom to discipline ourselves. |
The greatest compensation of old age is its freedom of spirit….It liberates you from envy , hatred and malice. |
The greatest Happiness of Life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. |
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have It found out by accident. |
The greatest thing a father can do for his children,Is to love their mother. |
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. |
The Hero is no braver than the ordinary man;But he is brave five minutes longer…..Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The ideal committee consists of two, four or six People who haven’t time, and One person who likes to run things his own way. |
The impossible is often the untried. |
The injury we do and the ones we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. Aesop –“Fables” |
The intelligent Man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned Man who is proud of his large cell. |
The ISness of things is well worth studying; but it is their WHYness that makes life worth living |
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery |
The joy of the Young is to disobey—but the trouble is, there are no longer any orders. |
The kindest word in all The World is The unkind word, unsaid. |
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. |
The magic of first love is our ignorance that It can ever end, |
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much;If he as an optimist after it, he knows too little. |
The man who is resting on his laurels is wearing them in the wrong place. |
The man who is resting on his laurels is wearing them in the wrong place. |
The Man who rests on his laurels is wearing Them in The wrong place |
The Mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. |
The Modern day Man–At twenty he thinks he can save the world ;At thirty he begins to wish he could save part of his own salary. |
The moment may be temporary, but The memory is for ever. |
The money that men make ,lives after them. |
The money that men make ,lives after them.Samuel Butler. |
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them. |
The more You do, the more You are |
The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness |
The most powerful weapon on earth is The human soul on fire. |
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. |
The older I get, the more I judge People by their character and not by their ideas. |
The One certain way of making things worse than they are is saying that they are worse than they are. |
The One who doesn’t pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two. |
The only War I ever approved of was the Trojan War; It was fought over a woman, and the men knew What they were fighting for. |
The only criterion for judging whether a piece of art is successful or not is,TIME |
The only perfect order is that which exists in cemeteries. the dead make no demands and they enjoy their equality in Silence. |
The only tyrant I accept in this World is the “still small voice” within me. |
The only way for a rich Man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. |
The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender Some |
The other planets may not be able to support Life, but It isn’t easy on this One either. |
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. |
The plain fact is that some people arrive bringing the party with them; and when they go away, the party goes away, too. |
The point of tact is not sharp |
The poor man is not he without a cent.But he who is without a dream. |
The primary purpose of Education is not to teach You to earn Your bread, but to make Every mouthful sweeter |
The problem of modern Civilization is to keep ‘space satellites from turning into shooting stars. |
The Proper Office of a friend is to side with You When You are in the wrong; Nearly any-body will side with You When You are right. |
The psychic task which a person can, and must set for himself, is not to feel secure ,but to be able to tolerate insecurity. |
The purpose which runs through other Educational purposes– the common thread of Education -is the development of the ability to think. |
The real destroyer of the liberties of any People is He who spreads among them bounties, donations and Largesse. |
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using Yours |
The really happy man is the one who can enjoy the scenery when forced to make a detour. |
The reason for our high crime rate is that the long arm of the law is often shorthanded. |
The reason men lie is, because women ask so many questions |
The respect of those You respect is worth more than The applause of The multitude. |
THE SACK dress makes a man wonder what a girl hasn’t got that she wants to hide. |
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions |
The secret history of some men is that they live so tense that they soon become past tense. |
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be Its parent. |
The secret of Education lies in respecting The pupil |
The secret of Happiness is curiosity. |
The secret of the Man who is universally interesting is that He is universally interested. |
The service we render to others really The rent we pay for our room on this earth. |
The Smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. |
The splitting apart of Man from Man dooms more than splitting an atom can. |
The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyses their light and measures their distance. |
The Sun,with all those planets revolving around it,can still ripen a bunch of grapes,as if it had nothing else in the world to do. |
The superior Man is distressed by The limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by The fact that men do not recognize The ability he has. |
The test of a truly educated man is what he is, and what he thinks, and what his mind absorbs, or dreams, or creates, when he is alone. —Donald David |
The test of a vocation is the love of drudgery it involves. |
The theological problem today is to find the art of drawing religion Out of a Man, not pumping It into him. |
The thing to do with good advice is to pass It on. It is never any good to Oneself. |
The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth.The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. |
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss. |
The tragedy of war is that it uses mans best to do mans worst. |
The trouble with being the best man at a wedding is that you never get to prove it. |
THE TROUBLE with most leisure time is that pretty soon you’re working overtime to pay for all the expensive hobbies you took up. |
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. |
The trouble with not having a goal is that You can spend Your life running up and down The field and never scoring. |
The trouble with opportunity is that it always looks bigger going than coming. |
The trouble with sleep is the going to and the coming from. |
The trouble with the future is that It usually arrives before we’re ready for It. |
The trouble with today’s individualists is that They’re getting harder and harder to tell apart. |
The true tomb of the dead is the Heart of the living. |
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike Someone who admires us, and to admire Someone who dislikes us. |
The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse |
The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. |
The truth about Man is two fold :He cannot learn Truths which are too complicated.He forgets Truths which are too simple. |
The truth doesn’t hurt unless It ought to. |
The truth is cruel, but It can be loved, and It makes free those who have loved It. |
The truth shall make ye free, but first It shall make ye miserable. |
The two most ridiculous statements I know are “Liquor doesn’t affect me,” and ”I understand the Russians.” |
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to till the World with fools |
The ultimate sin of the mind is the failure to pay enough attention. |
The vanity of being known to be entrusted with a secret is generally One of The chief motives to disclose It |
The views expressed by husbands in their homes are not necessarily those of the Management. |
The way of The transgressor may be hard—but It certainly isn’t lonely |
The wise, Man recognizes that Life’s most important Truths are often trite. the clever Man sees only the triteness, |
The wit of conversation consists more in finding It in others than showing a great deal Yourself. |
The work will wait while You show The child The rainbow, but The rainbow won’t wait while You do The work. |
The World breaks Everyone, and afterwards Many are strong in The broken places. |
The World improves through The extraordinary:, but The average give It stability.- |
The World is moving So fast These days that The Man who says It can’t be done is apt to be interrupted by Someone doing It. |
The World is now too dangerous for anything but truth, too small for any-thing but brotherhood. |
The World is round so that friendship may circle It. |
The worm not only turns; He often does It without giving the proper signal. |
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful, and has nobody to thank. |
The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong. |
There comes The time When a nation, as well as Its People, must choose between tightening The belt or losing The pants. |
There is a difference between not thinking of Someone and forgetting him. |
There is no good arguing with the inevitable: the only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat |
There are a thousand hacking at The branches of evil to One who is striking at The root |
There are more sell-marred People in The World than There are self-made. |
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. |
There are several good protections against temptation.But the surest one is cowardice. |
There are several good protections against temptation.But the surest one is cowardice. |
There are three ways of courting ruin—women, gambling, and calling in technicians. |
There are three ways to get Something done: do It Yourself, hire Someone or forbid Your Children to do It. |
There are two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean. |
There are two things to aim at in life:First to get what you want .The second ,to enjoy it.Only the wisest of mankind achieves the second |
There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle, or The mirror that reflects It. |
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe Everything or to doubt Every-thing. Both ways save us from thinking. |
There can be no happiness if The things we believe in are different from The things we do. |
There is a divinity which shapes our ends rough, hew Them as we will. |
There is a great Man who makes Every Man feel small. But The real great Man is The Man who makes Every Man feel great. |
There is just One thing I can promise You about The outer space programmed: Your – tax money will go farther. |
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means. |
There is no substitute for conscience, unless It’s living in a small town |
There is no surprise more magical than The surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on Man’s shoulder. |
There is no Truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to The whole World. |
There is nobody so irritating as Somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. |
There is Nothing harder than The softness of indifference. |
There is Nothing like sealing a letter to inspire a fresh thought |
There is only One thing for a Man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning It. |
There is sufficiency in The World for Man’s need but not for Man’s greed. |
There isn’t even enough time for love. so what does that leave for hate ;. – |
There was only one true Christian.They caught Him early and crucified Him.Mark Twain |
There’s a time to wink as well as to see. |
There’s Nothing so annoying as arguing with a person who knows What he’s talking about. |
There’s Nothing that can help You understand Your beliefs more than trying to explain Them to an inquisitive child. |
There’s Nothing to match curling up with a good book When There’s a repair job to be done around The house. |
These days of Inflation, You go shopping and Don’t see What You want, be grateful. |
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do It for himself |
This is The time of year When You discover that a month’s salary goes just as fast in 28 days as in 31. |
This is a do-It-Yourself test for paranoia: You know You’ve got It When You can’t think of anything that’s Your fault. |
This is the greatest paradox:The emotions cannot be trusted ,yet it is they that tell us the greatest truths.Don Herold |
This minute, too, is part of eternity. |
Those who cannot remember The past are condemned to repeat It. |
Those who make The worst use Their time most complain of Its shortness. |
Though we travel The World over to find The -beautiful, we must carry It with us or we find It not. |
Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast; salt, and hesitation. |
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend’s friend has a friend.Be discreet.The Talmud |
Time goes , You say ? Ah No !! Alas , Time stays , we go . |
Time is nature’s way of preventing Everything from happening at once. |
Time neither subtracts nor divides, but adds at such a pace It seems like multiplication. |
Titles. They distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior and are disgraced by the inferior. |
To be born a gentleman is an accident; to die One, an achievement. |
To be deprived of the person we love, is happiness, compared to living with the one we hate. |
To be good only to Yourself is to be good for Nothing. |
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of Mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. |
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. |
To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond It. |
To be Witty is not enough. One Must possess sufficient wit to Avoid having too much of It. |
To do What others cannot do is talent. To do What talent cannot do is genius. |
To err is human , but it feels divine |
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get Them stifled. |
To handle yourself , use your head.To handle others ,use your heart. |
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our Manners. |
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the popularity of dogs. |
To keep well by too strict a regimen is a tedious disease in Itself. |
To Know things as They are is better than to believe things as They seem. |
To Know What is right and not to do It is the worst cowardice. |
To love the world is no big chore. It’s’that miserable fellow next door who is the problem. |
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. |
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows—and I , needn’t. |
To really know a man, observe his behavior with a Lady, a flat tire and A child. |
To really know a man, observe his behavior with a Lady, a flat tyre and |
To Sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. |
To write a love letter we must begin without knowing what we intend to say, and end without knowing what we have written. |
Today, listening is obsolete. So is Silence. Each person travels alone in a small blue capsule of indignation |
Tomorrow is The day on which lazy People have The most to do. |
Too much rest is rust. |
Too much time spent on studies ,is sloth. |
Travelling is like falling in love; the World is made new. |
Treat a work of art as though you are a Prince.Let it speak to you first…Schopenhauer |
Trivial matters take up more time for discussion because some of us know more about them than we do about important matters. |
True courage is not only a balloon for rising-but also a parachute ,for falling |
True friendship comes When Silence between two People is comfortable. |
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. |
True Youth is a quality which is only acquired with age. |
Truth always is in a in a minority of One and Every custom begins as a broken, precedent. |
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. |
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over ;But it may be set to advantage and shown in good light |
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; You may kick It about all day like football, and It will be round and full at Evening. |
Trying to impress others does — usually in quite the opposite way. |
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do |
Two Dangers constantly threaten the World: order and disorder |
Two things indicate weakness—to be silent When It is proper to speak, and to speak When It is proper to be silent. |
Understanding the atom is like child’s play compared with understanding child’s play. |
Untrained intelligence is as much use as a bottle without an opener. |
Use of The computer in planning marriages is Nothing new. Many a Young Man has been hooked by a calculating mother. |
Use what talents you possess.The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there, except those that sang best. |
Usually parents who are lucky in the kind of children they have ,have children who are lucky in the kind of parents they have. |
Vacations are a little like love : anticipated with relish, experienced with inconvenience—and remembered with nostalgia. |
We all admire The wisdom o People who come to us for advice |
We all know right from wrong. What we need now is a way to tell opportunity from temptation. |
We are always confusing The past that we wish to bring back with The future. We Don’t perceive where anticipation changes to memory |
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out. |
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through One another, but to see One another through |
We are such little men , when the stars come out. |
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great. |
We cannot always oblige, but can always speak obligingly |
We die daily. Happy are those who come to life daily, as well. |
We die daily. Happy are those who come to life daily, as well. |
We do not err because Truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. |
We do not write because we want to;we write because we have to.Somerset Maugham |
We don’t mind Youth having Its fling. But we do object to Some of The things They’re throwing |
We don’t want a thing because we have found a reason for It; we find a reason for It because we want It. |
We feel free When we escape, Even If It be but from the frying pan into the fire |
We find ourselves, at mid-century, in a world that is like a drum : strike it anywhere and it resounds everywhere. |
We judge ourselves by What we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by What we have already done. |
We live in a World that has narrowed into a neighborhood before It has broadened into s brotherhood. |
We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving? |
We may not return The affection of those who like us, but we always respect Their good judgment. |
We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back The flood of fear. |
We need not worry so much about What Man descends from—It’s What he descends to that shames The human race. |
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. |
We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses. |
Wear your learning like a pocket watch – hidden.Do not pull it out to count the hours , but ,Give the time when you are asked. |
Wearing shorts usually reveals Nothing about a Man so much as his indifference to public opinion. |
Wedding is an Event, but marriage is an achievement. |
What A lot of people are saving for a rainy day is some-body else’s umbrella. |
What adds to the confusion in this space age is that prophecy gets to be history before It becomes current news. |
What are Our Young People coming to? Slowly, but surely, to The time When They will ask The same question.: |
What difference does it make how much you have ?What you do not have amounts to much more. Seneca 62 AD |
What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? |
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered world, but his having gone to search for It on The faith of an opinion. |
What I regret , on behalf of myself of long ago, is not the overweeningness but the playing it safe. |
What is so remarkable about love at first sight? It’s when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable. |
What matters is not to add years to Your life but to add life to Your years |
What most persons consider virtue, after The age of 40 is simply a loss of energy: |
What really flatters a Man is that You think him worth flattering |
What Society needs is broad men sharpened to a point. |
What the guests say as They swing out of The drive is what really counts. |
What would You not pay to see The moon rise, if Nature had not improvidently made It a free entertainment ? |
When a household is running like clockwork, You find Yourself waiting for an alarm to ring. |
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive |
WHEN A fellow says, “Well, to make a long story short,” it’s too late. |
WHEN A man has quietly made up his mind that there is nothing he cannot endure, his fears leave him. |
When a Man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. |
When ‘a wife reminds her husband that They’re not getting any Younger, he can assume that she is about to suggest Something expensive. |
When all else fails, follow directions. |
When All is said and done. It’s is politicians who say It, and The taxpayers who pay it |
When all is said it is but the art of expressing the invisible by means of the visible. |
When an elephant is in trouble, Even a frog Will kick him. |
When cheerfulness is kept up on principle, against all odds, It is The finest form of courage. |
When Economics gets important enough, It becomes political. |
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “compared to what?” |
When I was a Young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. |
When it comes to giving,Some people stop at nothing. |
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. |
When our Hearts are empty we collect things |
When schemes are laid in advance, It is surprising how often The circumstances fit in with Them |
When Someone sings his own praises, he always gets The tune too high. |
When The government gives The economy a transfusion It uses Your blood. |
When The heavens weep, The earth shall live. |
When we put ourselves in The other person’s place, we’re less likely to want to put him in his place. |
When You get Something for Nothing You just haven’t had The bill for It yet. |
When You open The window Yourself, You get fresh air. When Someone else opens It, You get a draught. |
When You re-read a classic, You do not see more in The book than You did before; You see more in You than There was before. |
When You say a person has a sense of humour, do you mean that he makes you laugh or that you can make him laugh? |
When You say that You agree to a thing in principle You mean that You have not The slightest intention of carrying It out. |
When You stretch The Truth watch out When It springs back |
When You take stuff from One writer, It’s plagiarism, but When You take It from Many writers It’s research. |
Where there’s a will, there are five hundred relatives. |
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems |
While money can’t buy happiness,it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. |
While money can’t buy happiness, It helps enable You to look for It in comfort. |
Who Can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you |
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. |
Who wants the last drop out of the tankard gets the Lid on his nose. |
Why are hotel room walls so thin when you sleep and so thick when you listen? |
Why doesn’t medical science work out Some way to make our ailments as interesting to others as they are to us? |
Why worry about things you can’t control? Get busy controlling things that depend on you. |
Wild animals and One’s relations: If One would watch them and know What they are driving at, One must keep perfectly still. |
Wild horses couldn’t drag a secret out of most women. Unfortunately, women seldom have lunch with wild horses. |
Wisdom about Life consists in taking the inevitable ventures which are the very stuff of common existence , and glorifying them |
Wisdom comes with age, but doesn’t do anybody much good, since humility tends to set in at about the same time. |
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. |
Wit consists in knowing The resemblance of things which differ, and The difference between things which are alike. |
Wit in conversation is, in the midwives’ phrase, a quick conception and an easy delivery. |
Wit is a treacherous dart—perhaps the only Weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one’s own back.“ |
WOMEN THINK about love more than men; that’s because men think more lout women. |
Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. |
Worry centers on self.Prayer centers on God |
Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear |
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged It cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. |
Worry is the traitor in our camp that dampens our powder and weakens our aim. |
Worry is today’s mouse eating tomorrow’s cheese. |
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength. |
Wouldn’t It be nice If two weeks on holiday seemed to last as long as two weeks on a diet. |
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. |
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. |
Yesterday is experience. Tomorrow is hope. Today is getting from one to The other as best we can. |
You always know which people have found life a bed of roses—you hear them complaining about the thorns. |
You are not responsible for the thoughts that pass your door.You are responsible only for those that you admit and entertain. |
You are only young once… but you can be immature your whole life |
You are only young once… but you can be immature your whole life |
You can buy flattery, but envy must be earned. |
You can judge Your age by The amount of pain You feel When You come in contact with a new idea. |
You can learn a lot about romance -at the movies—if don’t let the picture distract you. |
You can suffocate a thought by expressing It in too Many words. |
You can usually tell when teenage boy is serious about a girl by the way she calls him up every evening. |
You can’t go far in friendship if you are not willing to forgive each other, little failings. |
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? |
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. |
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. |
You can’t go very far if You Don’t begin very near. |
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? |
You can’t lose weight by talking about It. You have to keep Your mouth shut. |
You can’t run away from a weakness; You must Sometime fight It out or perish- And if that be so, why not now, and where You stand? |
You can’t take a crash course in serenity. |
You come into this world with nothing.Anything you get after that is sheer profit |
You could get rich Manufacturing crutches for lame excuses. |
You Don’t have to know how to sing; It’s feeling as though You want to that makes The day successful. |
You have to know The ropes in order to pull The strings. |
You judge People differently and Correctly only if You Don’t want anything from Them. |
You must change with The times unless You are influential enough to change The times. |
You never know What makes Some People tick until They begin to unwind. |
You never realize What a good memory You have until You try to forget Something. |
You spend an evening with some people.With some, you invest it. |
You think practice makes perfect, The chances are that You never had a child taking music lessons. |
You will find ,as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others. |
You’ll always stay Young if You live honestly, eat slowly, sleep sufficiently, work industriously, Worship faithfully —and lie about Your age. |
Young People do not know enough to be prudent, and Therefore They attempt The impossible —and achieve It, generation after generation. |
Your complaining about may be the result of looking backward. |
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady. |
Youth is looking for new answers—so They can question them. |
Youth is When You blame all Your troubles on Your parents; maturity is When You learn that Everything is The fault of The Younger generation. |
Youth Looks ahead ; Old age look back .Middle age Looks tired. |
You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why. |