Quotes (#475)

I praise loudly;
I blame softly.
- Catherine II

What a day may bring,
a day may take away.
- Thomas Fuller

"A cynic is a man who,
when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin."
- H. L. Mencken

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Treat all disasters as if they
were trivialities but never treat
a triviality as if it were a disaster."
- Quentin Crisp

Little minds are tamed and
subdued by misfortune; but
great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving

Quotaria

Amor vincit omnia
Love conquers all.
- Virgil

You get fifteen democrats in a room,
and you get twenty opinions.
- Senator Patrick Leahy

Great minds have purposes.
Others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

What seems impossible one minute becomes,
through faith, possible the next.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage
- Anais Nin

The secret of success is
constantcy of purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Quotes

The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Butler

"I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said,
'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter
said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'"
- Jay Leno

"Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret?
Too much support hurts."
- R. Stevens

"There are only two ways
of telling the complete
truth--anonymously and
posthumously."
- Thomas Sowell

Airplane travel is nature's way of making
you look like your passport photo.
- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President

Christmas is the season for kindling the
fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial
flame of charity in the heart
- Washington Irving