The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul^ G. K. Chesterton
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.^ Thomas Hood
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.^ Sydney Smith
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.^ Scott Alexander
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.^ Doug Floyd
It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.^ Robert Half
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.^ George Bancroft
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje^ Martin Luther King Jr.
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.^ John Dryden
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.^ Winston Churchill
I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need, A drowsy balm for every bitter smart. For happy hours the Rose will idly blow-- The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.^ Mary A. Barr
It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one.^ William Shakespeare
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.^ Thomas Paine
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.^ Albert Einstein
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.^ William Hazlitt
Life is the outcome of a balance between the air we breath andanaerobes trying to stifle our aerobic dependence. In death, anaerobestake over and new life begins. Within the context of spiritual,emotional and cultural life this same scientific paradigm applies. So,enjoy the interlude between birth and death.^ Earl Nightingale
My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.^ John Gay
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in. - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,^ William Cowper
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.^ Henry David Thoreau
I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.^ Norman Brodsky
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.^ Benjamin Franklin
When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don???t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice^ Senator John Kerry
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.^ George Bernard Shaw
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.^ Sydney Smith
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.^ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?^ Chinese Proverbs
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations^ Ashleigh Brilliant
The republic of letters. ^ Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.^ David Wolf
If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.^ William Shakespeare
A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.^ Marcus Valerius Martial
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.^ William Shakespeare
These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage.^ Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.^ Thomas Hood
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.^ Sydney Smith
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.^ Scott Alexander
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.^ Doug Floyd
It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.^ Robert Half
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.^ George Bancroft
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje^ Martin Luther King Jr.
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.^ John Dryden
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.^ Winston Churchill
I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need, A drowsy balm for every bitter smart. For happy hours the Rose will idly blow-- The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.^ Mary A. Barr
It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one.^ William Shakespeare
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.^ Thomas Paine
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.^ Albert Einstein
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.^ William Hazlitt
Life is the outcome of a balance between the air we breath andanaerobes trying to stifle our aerobic dependence. In death, anaerobestake over and new life begins. Within the context of spiritual,emotional and cultural life this same scientific paradigm applies. So,enjoy the interlude between birth and death.^ Earl Nightingale
My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.^ John Gay
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in. - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,^ William Cowper
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.^ Henry David Thoreau
I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.^ Norman Brodsky
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.^ Benjamin Franklin
When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don???t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice^ Senator John Kerry
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.^ George Bernard Shaw
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.^ Sydney Smith
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.^ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?^ Chinese Proverbs
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations^ Ashleigh Brilliant
The republic of letters. ^ Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.^ David Wolf
If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.^ William Shakespeare
A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.^ Marcus Valerius Martial
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.^ William Shakespeare
These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage.^ Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron
