Quotations


    I love quotations and proverbs. These are few of my favorites.


    To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.---Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

    Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.---Joseph Joubert

    The things we remember the best are those better forgotten.---Baltasar Gracian

    Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.---Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Enjoy all the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.---Unknown

    There is the difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; cut he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.---Colton

    Truth is the safest lie.---Jewish Proverb

    Climb mountains to see lowlands.---Chinese Proverb

    The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.---Macaulay

    To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.---Anatole France

    Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.---English Proverb

    The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.---Jacques Be'nigneBossvel

    There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.---Josh Billings

    To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.---Proverb

    Make yourself necessary to somebody.---Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Be kind to unkind people-they need it the most.---Anonymous

    No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.---William Blake

    Lost time is never found again.---John H. Aughey

    Into each life some rain must fall.---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Things do not change, we do.---Henry David Thoreau

    Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.---Wilson Mizner

    Do not follow where the path may lead...go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.---Anonymous

    When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.---Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.---Henry Ford

    Most people are as happy as they make their minds to be.---Abraham Lincoln

    No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.---Unknown

    The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.---David Russell

    Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.---Willa Cather

    Wherever you go, go with all your heart.---Confucious

    Either you run the day, or the day runs you.---Jim Rohn

    Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.---Unknown

    How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.---George Washington Carver

    A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to turn.---Unknown

    Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.---Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift-which is why they call it present.---Bill Keane

    Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.---Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.---John H. Vincent

    If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.---James A. Garfield

    If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.---Anonymous

    He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.---Rousseau

    And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.---Abraham Lincoln

    We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.---Robert Louis Stevenson

    Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.---Seneca

    Your children need your presence more than presents.---Jesse Jackson



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