Quotes

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a
very good plan; you should wear it inside,
where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in getting up every time we do.
- Confucius

"America forms the longest and straightest
bone in the earth's skeleton."
- Ellsworth Huntington

"All the President is, is a glorified public
relations man who spends his time flattering,
kissing and kicking people to get them to do
what they are supposed to do anyway."
- Harry S Truman

"The only really good place to buy lumber is at
a store where the lumber has already been cut and
attached together in the form of furniture, finished,
and put inside boxes."
- Dave Barry

"You must not think me necessarily foolish
because I am facetious, nor will I consider
you necessarily wise because you are grave."
- Sydney Smith

Quotaria

"The earth is the very
quintessence of the
human condition."
- Hannah Arendt

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever
found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but
it must likewise be added, that he had not often a
friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
- Samuel Johnson

"Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then
in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred
and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your
contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."
- Sydney Smith, English Clergyman

"We are drawn to our television sets each April
the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
- Vincent Canby

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers
to our true selves, to one another, and to the
spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from
an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
- R. D. Laing

Leadership is based on inspiration, not
domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
- William Arthur Wood