From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay, And with the Tweed had travelled; And when we came to Clovenford, Then said "my winsome marrow," "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside, And see the braes of Yarrow."^ William Wordsworth
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.^ Anton Chekhov
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.^ Robert M. Pirsig
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.^ Bayard Taylor
Why love if losing hurts so much??? I have no answers anymore??? only the life I have lived??? The pain now is part of the happiness (then).^ Anthony Hopkins
Will is the dynamic soul-force.^ Sivananda
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.^ Benjamin Lee Whorf
I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.^ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day^ German Proverb
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.^ Dalai Lama
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.^ Ben Hogan
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.^ Maya Angelou
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.^ Don Marquis
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.^ Groucho Marx
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.^ Sir Walter Scott
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.^ Madonna
There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.^ Alexandre De Talleyrand-p%A9rigord
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.^ William Wordsworth
Our revels are now ended. These our actors As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Is rounded with a sleep.^ William Shakespeare
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.^ John Bright
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot^ Thomas Carlyle
He that will win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow; With one hand thrust the lady from, And with the other pull her home.^ Samuel Butler 1
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.^ Marquis De Vauvenargues
As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.^ Sonia Johnson
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.^ Sydney Harris
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.^ Saadi
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.^ Hebbel
Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.^ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.^ Robin Williams
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.^ Oscar Wilde
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation^ Herbert Spencer
Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!'^ Woody Allen
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]^ Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.^ William Shakespeare
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.^ Rosario Castellanos
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.^ Leon Lederman
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.^ Ben Hecht
A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.^ Philip Dormer Stanhope fourth Earl of Chesterfield
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.^ Albert Pike
When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.^ Madonna
Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- "He giveth His beloved sleep."^ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]^ George Herbert
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.^ Unknown
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?^ Gore Vidal
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.^ Zen Proverb
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass But still remember what the Lord hath done.^ William Shakespeare
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.^ Benjamin Rush
To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep.^ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When God throws the dice are loaded.^ Greek proverb
We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.^ John Dryden
That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. . . . . Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.^ William Kendrick
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.^ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]^ Francois Rabelais
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.^ Marcus T. Cicero
I deal with temptation by yielding to it^ Mark Twain
The water is the same on both sides of the boat^ Finnish Proverb
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.^ Maltese Proverb
There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.^ Geoffrey Fisher
To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep.^ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When God throws the dice are loaded.^ Greek proverb
We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.^ John Dryden
That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. . . . . Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.^ William Kendrick
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.^ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.^ Marcus T. Cicero
I deal with temptation by yielding to it^ Mark Twain
The water is the same on both sides of the boat^ Finnish Proverb
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.^ Maltese Proverb
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.^ Giraudoux
There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.^ Geoffrey Fisher
As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.^ Samuel Butler 1
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.^ Alan Wilson Watts
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.^ French Proverb
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - Francis Bacon,^ Francis Bacon
All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]^ Pierre Corneille
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.^ Marshall McLuhan
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.^ Robert Fritz
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.^ Horace
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.^ Shirley Bassey
As innocent as a new-laid egg.^ William S. Gilbert
Declare World Party I !^ Vanna Bonta
Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.^ James Allen
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.^ Marshall McLuhan
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.^ B. F. Harris
Justice is truth in action.^ Benjamin Disraeli
Mother of dead dogs.^ Thomas Campbell
A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.^ Robert Louis Stevenson
Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.^ Roger Starr
We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.^ Lord Lytton Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Owen Meredith
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.^ Ayn Rand
A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.^ Isaac Watts
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.^ Oscar Wilde
I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.^ Dean Martin
Immortality - a fate worse than death.^ Edgar A. Shoaff
When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which hasopened for us.^ Alexander Graham Bell
I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.^ Eminem
Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.^ Bob Verdi
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.^ Unknown
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.^ Alfred Victor Vigny
I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what off for John Kerry is because I believe him. I believe he'll be a good president and a much better president than George Bush.^ Howard Dean
It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified, That beggars mounted run their horse to death.^ William Shakespeare
Exasperation is the mother of invention.^ Source Unknown
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.^ William Shakespeare
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books^ Chinese Proverbs
This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.^ Geoffrey Chaucer
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.^ Queen Victoria
He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.^ Homer Smyrns of Chios
The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.^ Senator John Kerry
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.^ Oscar Wilde
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.^ Buddha
Haste makes waste.^ John Heywood
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co^ Bertrand Russell
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.^ Josh Billings
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.^ Winston Churchill
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.^ Sandra Cisneros
At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly; Then rose again and bowed her to the people; When by the Archbishop of Canterbury she had all the royal makings of a queen, As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir,With all the choicest music of the kingdom Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted And with the same full state packed back again To York Place, where the feast is held.^ William Shakespeare
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.^ Anton Chekhov
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.^ Robert M. Pirsig
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.^ Bayard Taylor
Why love if losing hurts so much??? I have no answers anymore??? only the life I have lived??? The pain now is part of the happiness (then).^ Anthony Hopkins
Will is the dynamic soul-force.^ Sivananda
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.^ Benjamin Lee Whorf
I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.^ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day^ German Proverb
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.^ Dalai Lama
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.^ Ben Hogan
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.^ Maya Angelou
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.^ Don Marquis
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.^ Groucho Marx
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.^ Sir Walter Scott
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.^ Madonna
There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.^ Alexandre De Talleyrand-p%A9rigord
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.^ William Wordsworth
Our revels are now ended. These our actors As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Is rounded with a sleep.^ William Shakespeare
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.^ John Bright
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot^ Thomas Carlyle
He that will win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow; With one hand thrust the lady from, And with the other pull her home.^ Samuel Butler 1
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.^ Marquis De Vauvenargues
As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.^ Sonia Johnson
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.^ Sydney Harris
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.^ Saadi
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.^ Hebbel
Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.^ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.^ Robin Williams
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.^ Oscar Wilde
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation^ Herbert Spencer
Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!'^ Woody Allen
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]^ Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.^ William Shakespeare
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.^ Rosario Castellanos
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.^ Leon Lederman
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.^ Ben Hecht
A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.^ Philip Dormer Stanhope fourth Earl of Chesterfield
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.^ Albert Pike
When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.^ Madonna
Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- "He giveth His beloved sleep."^ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]^ George Herbert
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.^ Unknown
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?^ Gore Vidal
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.^ Zen Proverb
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass But still remember what the Lord hath done.^ William Shakespeare
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.^ Benjamin Rush
To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep.^ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When God throws the dice are loaded.^ Greek proverb
We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.^ John Dryden
That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. . . . . Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.^ William Kendrick
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.^ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]^ Francois Rabelais
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.^ Marcus T. Cicero
I deal with temptation by yielding to it^ Mark Twain
The water is the same on both sides of the boat^ Finnish Proverb
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.^ Maltese Proverb
There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.^ Geoffrey Fisher
To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep.^ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When God throws the dice are loaded.^ Greek proverb
We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.^ John Dryden
That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. . . . . Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.^ William Kendrick
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.^ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.^ Marcus T. Cicero
I deal with temptation by yielding to it^ Mark Twain
The water is the same on both sides of the boat^ Finnish Proverb
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.^ Maltese Proverb
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.^ Giraudoux
There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.^ Geoffrey Fisher
As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.^ Samuel Butler 1
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.^ Alan Wilson Watts
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.^ French Proverb
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - Francis Bacon,^ Francis Bacon
All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]^ Pierre Corneille
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.^ Marshall McLuhan
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.^ Robert Fritz
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.^ Horace
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.^ Shirley Bassey
As innocent as a new-laid egg.^ William S. Gilbert
Declare World Party I !^ Vanna Bonta
Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.^ James Allen
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.^ Marshall McLuhan
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.^ B. F. Harris
Justice is truth in action.^ Benjamin Disraeli
Mother of dead dogs.^ Thomas Campbell
A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.^ Robert Louis Stevenson
Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.^ Roger Starr
We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.^ Lord Lytton Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Owen Meredith
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.^ Ayn Rand
A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.^ Isaac Watts
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.^ Oscar Wilde
I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.^ Dean Martin
Immortality - a fate worse than death.^ Edgar A. Shoaff
When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which hasopened for us.^ Alexander Graham Bell
I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.^ Eminem
Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.^ Bob Verdi
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.^ Unknown
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.^ Alfred Victor Vigny
I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what off for John Kerry is because I believe him. I believe he'll be a good president and a much better president than George Bush.^ Howard Dean
It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified, That beggars mounted run their horse to death.^ William Shakespeare
Exasperation is the mother of invention.^ Source Unknown
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.^ William Shakespeare
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books^ Chinese Proverbs
This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.^ Geoffrey Chaucer
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.^ Queen Victoria
He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.^ Homer Smyrns of Chios
The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.^ Senator John Kerry
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.^ Oscar Wilde
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.^ Buddha
Haste makes waste.^ John Heywood
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co^ Bertrand Russell
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.^ Josh Billings
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.^ Winston Churchill
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.^ Sandra Cisneros
At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly; Then rose again and bowed her to the people; When by the Archbishop of Canterbury she had all the royal makings of a queen, As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir,With all the choicest music of the kingdom Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted And with the same full state packed back again To York Place, where the feast is held.^ William Shakespeare
