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

"What is important in life is life,
and not the result of life."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed
only to those who own one."
- AJ Liebling

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it
is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes

"You're never too old
to become younger."
- Mae West

Fate is not an eagle,
it creeps like a rat.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction,
for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quotes

Americans will put up with anything
provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather

"I have as much privacy
as a goldfish in a bowl."
- Princess Margaret

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment
of our intelligence by means of language."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should
be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
- Calvin Trillin

Between two evils, I always pick
the one I never tried before.
- Mae West

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner