Quote Worthy

Hear the words of Prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. - Akhnaton

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. - Ayn Rand

When people are too open-minded it can lead them into being unable to discriminate between sense and nonsense. - Unknown

My eyes can only see and my ears can only hear. Only my mind can conceive all that which I think I fear. - Unknown

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat. - Johann Von Goethe

The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved. - Arthur Guiterman

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. - Elizabeth Gaskell

If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not. - Marcus Aurelius

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. - Jonathan Edwards

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. - Publilius Syrus

Necessity and time will teach us what to do. - Unknown

Where the tiller is tireless, the land is fertile. - Unknown

Food For Thought

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. - Arundhati Roy

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

Quote Worthy

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it … this will miraculously transform your whole life. - Eckhart Tolle

Imagine how different the world would look if help were given more freely than criticism and judgements were made only after hearing all sides - Doe Zantamata 

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. - Harper Lee

The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.  Maximilien Roberspierre

If you hold on to the past, you can’t live the present. If you can’t live the present, then you can’t plan your future. - Unknown

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality. - Shunryu Suzuki

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. - Unknown

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. - C S Lewis

If you want to fly, you got to give up the stuff that weighs you down. - Unknown

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! - Ezra Taft Benson

The ripples we create are greater than we can imagine. - Josefina

Flexible people do not get bent out of shape. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as simply, or profoundly true.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple Black

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one’s doubts. - George Brown Burgin

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde on being charged a large fee for an operation

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. - Charles Schulz 

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin Roosevelt

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Unknown

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime but I have a great vocabulary. - Jules Feiffer

I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. - Gerald Barzan

I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s a knob called “brightness”, but it doesn’t seem to work. - Gallagher

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. - George Carlin

I’ll give you a definite maybe. - Samuel Goldwyn

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it. - George Carlin

I’m like a big old hen. I can’t cluck too long about the egg I’ve just laid because I’ve got five more inside me pushing to get out. - Louis L'Amour

Quote Worthy

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. - Denis Waitley

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. - Joseph Addison

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. - Benjamin Franklin

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. - Benjamin Franklin

It would probably be an improvement if more things we heard went out the other ear instead of the mouth. - Unknown

Expect the best, prepare for the worst and don’t be surprised when you get what you deserve. - Lionel Goulet

Some people have got a hard outside but they have got a soft heart. Look for it. - Unknown

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. - Eldridge Cleaver

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. - Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. - Samuel Johnson

The system will work, if you work the system. - Unknown

You must look into people as well as at them. - Unknown

Some Lovely Sceneries

 Antelope Canyon, USA

 Bamboo Forest, Japan

 Black Forest, Germany

 Canola Flower Fields, China

Fields of Tea, China

Quote Worthy

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. - Zeno

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

No one can be completely relaxed. Like a wind-up clock, a person can’t tick without some tension. - John Raudonis

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor. - Epicurus

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realising that life is made up of little things. - Unknown

Usefulness is not impaired by imperfection. You can still drink from a chipped cup. - Greta K. Nagel

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. - Unknown

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. - Mary Wilson Little

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. - Benjamin Disraeli

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. - Benjamin Disraeli

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion. - Unknown

Strangers are friends you have yet to meet. - Unknown

Quote Worthy

Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth – rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. - William Temple

 

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar. - Robert Ingersoll

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. - Sidney Howard

  

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him. - Bernard Haldane

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. - Unknown

Foresight is knowing when to shut your mouth before someone suggests it. - Unknown

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. - Albert Schweitzer

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. - Jonathan Swift

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat 

The fears we don’t face becomes our limits. - Unknown

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. - Unknown

Quote Worthy

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. - Eric Hoffer

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. - Alfred Adler

Of all the living creatures in our world, only humans accumulate problems and wear them like a yoke around their necks. - Leo Buscaglia

It is with narrow soul’d people as with narrow necked bottles, the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out. - Unknown

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work, is put to the torture, and is not obliged to speak the truth. - Samuel Johnson

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling. - Unknown

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? - Mevlana Rumi

The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray. - Robert Ingersoll

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. - Douglas Jerrold

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. - Unknown

Be quick in action, but cautious in speech. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as simply, or profoundly true.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. - Bill Hoest

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool. - Leon Spinks

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. -Robert Benchley

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! - Tom Lehrer

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. - Leo Durocher

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent. - Ashleigh Brilliant 

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. - Douglas Adams

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. - Lucy Van Pelt

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. - Leo Durocher

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - Gilbert Chesterton

I refuse to worry about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in a geriatric ward. - Writer John Mortimer, 82

I resign. I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member. - Groucho Marx

I say to my patient, "I wish you a very good journey to an unknown you’ve never seen." - Dr. Pieter V. Admiraal

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don’t you know, if you see what I mean. - P. G. Wodehouse