This is a page of quotes that I have found over the years. Albert Einstein "When the solution is simple, God is answering." When I examine myself and my methods of thought, "Only a life lived for others is a life worth while ." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." "Anyone who has never made a mistake He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file The most beautiful thing we can experience The world is a dangerous place.
Confucious Bill Cosby St. Fracis of Assisi Robert Frost Thomas Jefferson Samuel Johnson Thomas Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because Dwight D Eisenhower Lao Tzu Abraham Lincoln I don't know who my grandfather was; The probability that we may fail in the struggle No man is good enough to govern
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, Albert Switzer
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. Rod Sterling
You unlock the door with the key of imagination...
Somewhere between apathy and anarchy Harriet Beecher Stowe
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
When a true genius appears in this world,
I never wonder to see men wicked,
We have just enough religion to make us hate, George Washington
Labour to keep alive in your breast
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty
They are in no particular order, since I have just begun this page.
I hope to add more, and become more organized in the future...
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
I come to
the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing
positive knowledge."
and I'm not sure about the former."
has never tried
anything new."
has already earned my contempt. He has
been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
is the mysterious. It
is the source of all
true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Not because of the people who
are evil;
but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Lord grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change, the courage
to change the
things I can, and the wisdom
to know the difference.
Two roads diverged in a woods, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
I like the dreams of the future better
than the history of the past.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought;
our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly
kindled by unexpected sparks.
Many of life's failures are people
did not realize how close they were to success
when they
gave up.
is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
Unless each day can be looked back upon
by an individual as one in which he has had some
fun,
some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength,
mastering yourself is true power.
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
I am much more
concerned to know what his grandson will be.
ought not to
deter us from the support
of a cause we believe to be just.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to speak out and remove all doubt.
another man without that
other's consent.
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried
on him
personally.
I don't know what your destiny will be,
but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will
be really happy
are those who have sought and found how to serve.
It is then burst into flame by an
encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle
the inner spirit.
all living things, man will not himself find
peace.
It is the only thing.
There is nothing in the dark that isn't
there when the lights are on.
lies the thinking human being.
The bitterest tears shed over graves
are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
being sure I had a better one to put in its place
Every dog must have its day.
as to conceive how others can be in want.
you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all
in confederacy against him.
but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
but not enough to make us love one another.
Over grown military establishments are
under any form of government inauspicious to liberty,
and are to be regarded as particularly hostile
to republican liberty.
that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
which every good citizen owes to his country.