Miscellaneous Quotes
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer
and forge yourself one."
-James A. Froude
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not
people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."
-William Arthur Ward
"I walk in the shoes of the men of today. I fly their
planes, I eat their food, but my heart is in the wilderness
with feathers in my hair."
-Louis L'Amour, from LAST OF THE BREED
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his
own nature into his pictures.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
-Josh Billings
A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
-Thomas Edison
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
-Lao-Tzu
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have commited suicide.
-Mahatma Gandhi
One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength.
One must choose.
-Jean Anouilh, Cecile
Drunkeness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
-SENECA
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
We are healed of suffering only by experiencing it in full.
-Marcel Proust
What is dangerous about the tranquilizers is that whatever
peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where
you buy a pilland buy peace with it, you get conditioned to
cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
-Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and
less friendly understanding.
-Agnes Repplier, In Pursuit of Laughter
The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is, that
one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
-Henry Ward Beecher
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no
defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier
save our own weakness of purpose.
-Kin Hubbard
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself;
but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not
sure of you.
-Stewart E. White
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Hyperion
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else.
This is not advice, it is merely custom.
-Samuel Clemmons/"Mark Twain", Notebooks*
I have no favorite color (though there are a few I like less
than others), and I have no one favorite quote.... There is
too much life to be lived; I refuse to limit myself. Life is
not made in the form of a single mold.
-Rhonda L. M. Tipton
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