Quotes (#488)

In the end, we will remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The uncertainties of the present
always give way to the enchanted
possibilities of the future.
- Kirkland

A true friend is the most precious of
all possessions and the one we take
the least thought about acquiring.
- La Rochefoucauld

"Nobody has ever measured, not even
poets, how much the heart can hold."
- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov

"An empty canvas is full."
- Robert Rauschenberg

Quotes

"If there were in the world today any large number
of people who desired their own happiness more than
they desired the unhappiness of others, we could
have paradise in a few years."
- Bertrand Russell

A place for everything,
everything in its place.
- Benjamin Franklin

Good advice is something a man gives when
he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent
life on other planets. Why should other planets
be any different from this one?
- Bob Monkhouse

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and
ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams,
the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- Aldous Huxley

Quotaria

Cockroaches and socialites are
the only things that can stay
up all night and eat anything.
- Herb Caen

We confess our little faults to persuade
people that we have no large ones.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One reason I don't drink is that I want
to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor

Riley: These spells...these really work? I mean, can you really turn your enemies inside out? Or...learn to excrete gold coins?
Anya: That one's not so much fun.
Willow: They work, Riley, but they take concentration. Being attuned with the forces of the universe.
Xander: Right. You can't just go "librum incendere" and expect...[the page of Xander's book bursts into flame. Shocked, he slams the book closed, extinguishing the fire.]
Giles: Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Then there was the man who drowned crossing
a stream with an average depth of six inches."
W.I.E. Gates

One of the indictments of civilizations is that
happiness and intelligence are so rarely found
in the same person.
- William Feather

Quotes - Oneliners

"A Hospital is no place to be sick."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We are the hero of our own story."
- Mary McCarthy

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks
- John Luly

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude
- Karl Barth

Quotaria

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my
own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild, harmless, rather engaging little things,
not at all like the staring defects in other
people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey

Life's a tough proposition, and the
first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that
think and suspicious of men who try to.
- H. Mumford Jones

Preserving health by too severe
a rule is a worrisome malady.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

She was a woman who, between courses, could
be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- Henry James

"No winter lasts forever;
no spring skips its turn."
- Hal Borland