Quote (#500)

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach --- waiting for a gift from the sea.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Not what we give, but what we share; for the
gift without the giver is bare. Who gives of
himself and his alms feeds three --- himself,
his hungering neighbor and me.
- James Russell Lowell

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is
so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
- Josh Billings

"Marriage is a great institution, but
I'm not ready for an institution."
- Mae West

"Genuine poetry can communicate
before it is understood."
- T. S. Eliot

Quotes

"Silence is more eloquent than words."
- Thomas Carlyle

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience
of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"One is very crazy when in love."
- Sigmund Freud

"I wonder what fool it was
that first invented kissing."
- Jonathan Swift

"A man's kiss is
his signature."
- Mae West

"Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope."
- Josh Billings

Quotaria

"I never said most of
the things I said."
- Yogi Berra

"The stars don't look bigger,
but they do look brighter."
- Sally Ride

"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough
to give but dreadful uneasy to take."
- Josh Billings

"No man remains quite what he
was when he recognizes himself."
- Thomas Mann

"Failure is success
if we learn from it."
- Malcolm Forbes

"You know, you can't please all the people
all the time... and last night, all those
people were at my show."
- Mitch Hedberg

Quotaria

"A verbal contract isn't worth
the paper it's written on."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"You forget that the fruits belong to all
and that the land belongs to no one."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Small opportunities are often the
beginning of great enterprises."
- Demosthenes

"Half the lies they tell
about me aren't true."
- Yogi Berra

"Common sense is instinct,
and enough of it is genius."
- Josh Billings

"Late to bed and late to wake
will keep you long on money
and short on mistakes."
- Aaron McGruder

Quotes

"You must look into people
as well as at them."
- Lord Chesterfield

"I like a woman with a head on
her shoulders. I hate necks."
- Steve Martin

"The mountains are
calling and I must go."
- John Muir

"Simplicity is natures first
step, and the last of art."
- Philip James Bailey

"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith;
it is an element of faith."
- Paul Tillich

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick
to one thing until you get there."
- Josh Billings

Quotes

"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since
I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."
- Groucho Marx

It's not whether you get knocked
down. It's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Life is the first gift,
love is the second, and
understanding is the third.
- Marge Piercy

Life consists not in holding good cards,
but in playing those you hold well
- Josh Billings

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from
people who have the habit of making excuses.
- Dr. George Washington Carver

I am not afraid of storms, for I
am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott