MOTIVATIONAL QUOTATION

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. Saint Teresa of Avila Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. John Donne Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. William James Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. Swami Sivananda Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. Victor Kiam Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. Alfred A. Montapert Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Baruch Spinoza Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sasha Cohen Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? Eliza Dushku I can, therefore I am. Simone Weil I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. Ken Venturi I was motivated to be different in part because I was different. Donna Brazile I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. Mia Hamm If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. Emile Zola If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller If you've got a talent, protect it.

Jim Carrey In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. Rupert Murdoch It's always too early to quit. Norman Vincent Peale Know or listen to those who know. Baltasar Gracian Leap, and the net will appear. John Burroughs Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. Denis Waitley Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Jim Rohn No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. Jessica Savitch One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. Thomas Fuller One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. Peter Marshall One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. Michael Korda Only the educated are free. Epictetus Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. Kyle Chandler Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. Walter Elliot Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. Jimmy Dean Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Robert H. Schuller

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. Bo Jackson Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. Eileen Caddy Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Peter Marshall The dog that trots about finds a bone. Golda Meir The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. Confucius The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. Muhammed Iqbal The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. Sylvia Browne The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius The wise does at once what the fool does at last. Baltasar Gracian There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. Richard Rorty

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. John F. Kennedy To be a good loser is to learn how to win. Carl Sandburg To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Robert Louis Stevenson True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W. Gardner We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. Orison Swett Marden What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. Henry David Thoreau What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. Ralph Marston What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Henry David Thoreau When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder. Natalie Gulbis When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Thomas Jefferson Wherever you are - be all there. Jim Elliot Who seeks shall find. Sophocles Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. Gordon B. Hinckley You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Ted Turner You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. George S. Patton You never know what motivates you. Cicely Tyson

BEAUTY QUATATION
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. Adlai E. Stevenson A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. George Meredith A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. Anne Roiphe A women's greatest asset is her beauty. Alex Comfort Beauty and folly are old companions. Benjamin Franklin Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. Munshi Premchand Beauty has a lot to do with character. Kevyn Aucoin Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume Beauty is a fragile gift. Ovid Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? George Bernard Shaw Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. Khalil Gibran Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. H. G. Wells Beauty is less important than quality. Eugene Ormandy Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson Beauty is only skin deep. Thomas Overbury Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person. Amanda Peet Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime. Alicia Machado Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. Camille Paglia Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. John Ray Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. Fay Weldon Beauty is the promise of happiness. Edmund Burke Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. Charles Baudelaire Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. Douglas Horton Beauty is whatever gives joy. Edna St. Vincent Millay Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Francis Bacon Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. Matthew Fox Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more. Eva Herzigova Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. Victor Hugo Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. Charles Baudelaire Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. Richard Cecil Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple. Jean Claude Van Damme Goodness is beauty in the best estate. Christopher Marlowe

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business. Richard Chamberlain Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that. Cindy Margolis Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Dante Alighieri How goodness heightens beauty! Milan Kundera I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions. Traci Bingham I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. Bob Dylan I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman. Courtney Love I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. Brigitte Bardot I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within. Christy Turlington I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt. Kirsten Dunst Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Blaise Pascal In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. Christopher Morley In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! Homer Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self. Priscilla Presley

Integrity reveals beauty. Thomas Leonard Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Charles Lamb Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Ashley Smith Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home. Loretta Young Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends. Emily Mortimer My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles. Hedy Lamarr Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! Barry Cornwall Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Khalil Gibran Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. George William Russell People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. Aristotle Rare is the union of beauty and purity. Juvenal

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good. Laetitia Casta Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. David Byrne She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. Groucho Marx Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing. James Caan Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. Rosalind Russell The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. Alexis Carrel The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. Edward F. Halifax The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. Joan Collins The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. Katherine Anne Porter The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. Chanakya There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. Conrad Hall There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. H. R. Giger There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Maria Mitchell There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me. Liv Tyler Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. Candice Bergen To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. Ellsworth Huntington We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Jawaharlal Nehru What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. Albrecht Durer When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. Bernard Berenson When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. Akhenaton You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. Anouk Aimee You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. Tadao Ando Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. Christian Dior

Intelligence Quotes
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. Catherine Deneuve A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence. Napoleon Hill All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Always be smarter than the people who hire you. Lena Horne An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. Alan Alda Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. Julius Charles Hare Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. Janis Joplin Belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense is not so common. Voltaire Every true genius is bound to be naive. Friedrich Schiller Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. Josh Billings Genius always finds itself a century too early. Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. E. B. White

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. James Whistler I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. Mark Twain I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. Dolly Parton I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. Irene Peter Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. Margaret Anderson Intelligence is not a science. Frank Carlucci Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. Susan Sontag Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. Victor Hugo Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. Bryant H. McGill It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. G. H. Hardy It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Lewis Carroll It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Ambrose Bierce Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. Henri Frederic Amiel Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. Diogenes Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Jung Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. Gracie Allen The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. Alexander Pope The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. Ernest Newman The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. Ed Parker The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Bill Watterson The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. John Fowles There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. Josh Billings There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Don Herold To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold J. Toynbee We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert

LEADERSHIP QUOTES
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. J. P. Morgan A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Max Lucado Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Jim Rohn Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. W. Clement Stone Clarity affords focus. Thomas Leonard Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Barbara Sher Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller Don't find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen Covey Every silver lining has a cloud. Mary Kay Ash Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell Get the best people and train them well. Scott McNealy Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. Tom Hopkins Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. Jim Rohn Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. J. P. Morgan Good enough never is. Debbi Fields Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Paul Hawken He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. Sun Tzu

High expectations are the key to everything. Sam Walton Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David Joseph Schwartz I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. R. Buckminster Fuller If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. Tom Peters If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. William James If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. Thomas Fuller If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset. Harvey S. Firestone If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Henry Ford If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James In fair weather prepare for foul. Thomas Fuller Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. Michael Eisner Leaders grasp nettles. David Ogilvy Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. Harold S. Geneen Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren G. Bennis Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. Ray Kroc Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. Peter Drucker Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. Bernard Baruch My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. Duke Ellington No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. W. Clement Stone No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. E. Joseph Cossman Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. E. Joseph Cossman People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Drucker People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sowell Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser Strong convictions precede great actions. James Freeman Clarke The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. Barbara Sher The cautious seldom err.

Confucius The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. J. Paul Getty The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. Vaclav Havel The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. Charles de Gaulle The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Ken Olsen The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. Harvey S. Firestone The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. Mary Kay Ash The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry A. Kissinger The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. Cyril Falls Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. David Joseph Schwartz To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. Aristotle Onassis To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. John H. Johnson Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller What helps people, helps business. Leo Burnett Whatever ought to be, can be. James Rouse When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Roy E. Disney Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. Bo Bennett You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power. Major Owens You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. An Wang You have to think anyway, so why not think big? Donald Trump You're only as good as the people you hire. Ray Kroc Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you. Bruce Henderson

Life Quotes
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. Anton Chekhov Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre Everything in life is luck. Donald Trump Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White I do not regret one moment of my life. Lillie Langtry I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth I love life because what more is there. Anthony Hopkins I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living. Ursula Andress I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schulz In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. Philip Green Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. Dave Barry Life is but thought. Sara Teasdale Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. Miguel Angel Ruiz Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. Abraham Cahan Life is never easy for those who dream. Robert James Waller Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz Life is wasted on the living. Douglas Adams

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney Life loves the liver of it. Maya Angelou Life must be lived as play. Plato Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinci Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. Arthur Miller My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. Cary Grant My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. Hugh Leonard Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates Only a few things are really important. Marie Dressler People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. H. L. Mencken The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. William Lyon Phelps The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Robert Louis Stevenson This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. William James To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry David Thoreau To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson Unbeing dead isn't being alive. e. e. cummings Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. Karl A. Menninger Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. George Bernard Shaw Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it. Lauryn Hill We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max de Pree What we play is life. Louis Armstrong When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus Your life is what your thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius

Birthday Quotes
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Erma Bombeck A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Thomas Fuller About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. Kurt Vonnegut All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

George Harrison Being seventy is not a sin. Golda Meir Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. Sammy Hagar For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. Steven Wright God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. Doug Coupland How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? Satchel Paige I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party. Kirstie Alley I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up. Isla Fisher I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. Liv Tyler I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course. Ruth Warrick I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. Stephen Hopkins I hate birthdays. Zane Grey I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique. Celine Dion I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. Barry White

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' Steven Wright I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough. Johnny Vegas I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. Mitch Hedberg I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything. Gloria Stuart I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. Victoria Beckham If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same. John Oates In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Annette Funicello It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. Ellen Glasgow It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' Sam Levenson Let them eat cake. Marie Antoinette Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. Plautus Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. Mary Schmich Love the giver more than the gift. Brigham Young

Love Quotes
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. Robert Lynd My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him. Loretta Lynn My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. Jim Valvano My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. Guy Johnson New Year's Day is every man's birthday. Charles Lamb Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. Karl Jaspers Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. Jean Paul Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. Gabriel Byrne The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once. E. Joseph Cossman The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new. Catherine Bell The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey The only thing better than singing is more singing. Ella Fitzgerald The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. Samuel Johnson The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Paris Hilton There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. Lewis Carroll There is still no cure for the common birthday. John Glenn Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. C. S. Lewis This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me Homeland Security. Art Buchwald To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. John Burroughs To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. Lionel Blue We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. Lauren Hutton We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top. Navjot Singh Sidhu When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all. Yoko Ono When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. Gloria Stuart When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? Lisa Loeb Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? John Heywood You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Bob Hope You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' Jerry Seinfeld

Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse Jackson A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. Cyrano de Bergerac A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. Friedrich Nietzsche A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. Samuel Lover Do all things with love. Og Mandino First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. Charles Caleb Colton Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. Barbara Pym I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. Theodore Dreiser I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Daphne Rae I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. J. D. Salinger If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. Emmet Fox If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan Love conquers all. Virgil

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James A. Baldwin Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. Barbara de Angelis Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken Love is love's reward. John Dryden Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Jose Ortega y Gasset Love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel de Unamuno Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. H. L. Mencken Love is the flower you've got to let grow. John Lennon Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made. Darren L. Johnson Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht Love is the poetry of the senses. Honore de Balzac Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. Daniel S. Greenberg Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. John Ciardi Love is what you've been through with somebody. James Thurber Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James A. Baldwin Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Thomas Aquinas Love that is not madness is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Khalil Gibran Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara de Angelis Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a

wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. John Harrigan Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. William Congreve Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. David Byrne Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. Tammy Wynette Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. Tammy Wynette Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. Edwin Louis Cole The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct,

and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. Honore de Balzac The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Edward Moore The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anais Nin The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton There is a woman at the begining of all great things. Alphonse de Lamartine There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. Thomas Fuller There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is no limit to the power of loving. John Morton There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. Charles Morgan There is only one terminal dignity - love. Helen Hayes Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. Robert Burton To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Henry Drummond To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. Alphonse de Lamartine To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I." Ayn Rand True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. W. Somerset Maugham We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. Jean de la Bruyere We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte When love is not madness, it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue

water. Gwendolyn Brooks When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. Natalie Clifford Barney Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather Where there is love there is life. Mohandas Gandhi Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. Werner Erhard You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt

Friendship Quotes
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker Friends are born, not made. Henry B. Adams Friendship and money: oil and water. Mario Puzo

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Charles Alexander Eastman Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. Oscar Wilde I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. Robert Brault If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Duer Miller In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. 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.

Albert Schweitzer It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Samuel Pepys Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Baltasar Gracian Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. Giotto di Bondone There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But

that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. Joseph Roux When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edward W. Howe When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter

Education Quotes
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. Horace Mann A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. A. Bartlett Giamatti America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. Will Rogers America is the best half-educated country in the world. Nicholas M. Butler An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. Alan K. Simpson

An educated people can be easily governed. Frederick The Great An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell Baker An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. Clifford Stoll Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D'Angelo Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant Education is all a matter of building bridges. Ralph Ellison Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Daniel J. Boorstin Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes Every educated person is a future enemy. Martin Bormann Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. Leon Spinks I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. Al Green I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Tallulah Bankhead I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. Al McGuire I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. Annie Dillard I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. Aeschylus If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. Abu Bakr If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. Cornelius Vanderbilt If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. Heinrich Heine In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Mark Twain In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. Walter Annenberg It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. Allen Klein It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll It is always in season for old men to learn. Aeschylus It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle Learn to think continentally. Alexander Hamilton Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. Alice Miller Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Abigail Adams Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Ambrose Bierce Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Gilbert K. Chesterton No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. Brad Henry Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it. Judy Chicago Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. Robert Anthony Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. Alvin Toffler The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. Will Rogers The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers The only real failure in life is one not learned from. Anthony J. D'Angelo The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Ernest Renan The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris The willingness to learn new skills is very high. Angela Merkel To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. Edith Hamilton To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. Muriel Spark To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. A. A. Milne True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. Abigail Van Buren When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter Drucker Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Erich Fromm You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. Tammy Faye Bakker After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Jean Cocteau All music is beautiful. Billy Strayhorn

Any good music must be an innovation. Les Baxter But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. Bryan Ferry Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Kin Hubbard Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. Howard Dietz Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. Isaac Stern For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. Reba McEntire He has Van Gogh's ear for music. Billy Wilder Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth. Ace Frehley I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. Dizzy Gillespie I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. Elvis Presley I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. Billy Joel I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. Herb Alpert I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. Ray Charles

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. Gary Cherone I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. B. B. King If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Gustav Mahler If music be the food of love, play on. William Shakespeare If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Thomas Carlyle If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. Benjamin Britten It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. Bruce Beresford It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. Stevie Nicks Music can change the world because it can change people. Bono Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. Jimi Hendrix Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. Herbie Hancock Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. William Congreve

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato Music is a performance and needs the audience. Michael Tippett Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable. Billy Sheehan Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. John Lennon Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. Paul Simon Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. Jacques Barzun

Music is love in search of a word. Sidney Lanier Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. Jean Paul Music is my religion. Jimi Hendrix Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. Thomas Fuller Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. Aaron Carter Music is the best means we have of digesting time. W. H. Auden Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. Christian Nestell Bovee Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy

Music is the soul of language. Max Heindel Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. Edgar Winter Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle Music should be your escape. Missy Elliot Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. John Ruskin Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. Frank Zappa Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him. Charlie Byrd Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. Gary Wright My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. Yancy Butler
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. Ray Charles My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power. Paulina Rubio No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H. Auden One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. Bryan Ferry Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. Michael Stipe

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. Andres Segovia The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. Karl Lagerfeld The real art of conducting consists in transitions. Gustav Mahler The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. Duke Ellington There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. Frank Zappa There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. Aimee Mann There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it. Mickey Hart When words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. Robert Browning Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Laurie Anderson You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? Bryan Ferry You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. Van Morrison

Inspirational Quotes
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. Joyce A. Myers A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. Donald Cargill Belief creates the actual fact. William James

Believe you can and you're halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. William Ellery Channing For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. Wallis Simpson Give light and people will find the way. Ella Baker God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. Jim Elliot God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. Arthur Young Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Friedrich Schiller Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher Great hopes make great men. Thomas Fuller Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. Lao Tzu Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. Vincent McNabb How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. Pope John XXIII I pray God may preserve your health and life many years. Junipero Serra Ideas shape the course of history. John Maynard Keynes If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mohandas Gandhi It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Harry Emerson Fosdick It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle Onassis It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. Joseph Wood Krutch Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. Henry Norris Russell Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. Marcus Aurelius Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. Bern Williams Mankind is made great or little by its own will. Friedrich Schiller

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Blaise Pascal Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! Audrey Hepburn Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. Pope Paul VI Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. Pope Paul VI On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. William Bartram Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. Joseph Barber Lightfoot Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivananda Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? Fulton J. Sheen Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. Henry Ward Beecher Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. Hosea Ballou The best way out is always through. Robert Frost The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. Mark Hopkins The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. Leo Buscaglia The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. Thomas Jefferson The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. Ray Manzarek The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Emile Zola There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin Think with your whole body. Taisen Deshimaru Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan We convince by our presence. Walt Whitman What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller When deeds speak, words are nothing. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt You change your life by changing your heart. Max Lucado Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein

Marriage Quotes
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. James H. Boren A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. Helen Rowland A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. W. Somerset Maugham

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. Eddie Cantor All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Raymond Hull All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. Red Skelton Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. Sydney J. Harris An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. Sacha Guitry Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Isadora Duncan Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. Samuel Johnson Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. H. L. Mencken Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. Woody Allen Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. Marilyn Monroe Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. Jean Kerr But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? Mary Astell By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. Barbara Mandrell Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. Will Cuppy Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. Loretta Lynn

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. Abigail Adams Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. James C. Dobson Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. Erma Bombeck Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. Zsa Zsa Gabor He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. Jeremy Taylor He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. Mae West How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. Oscar Wilde I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. Frank Carson I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. Lyndon B. Johnson I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner I married beneath me, all women do. Nancy Astor I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. Barbara Bush I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out. Reese Witherspoon I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom. Michael Bergin

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. Bette Davis I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it. Rose Kennedy I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. Ruth Rendell If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. George Ade If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Michel de Montaigne If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. Mignon McLaughlin If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. Alan King If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. Robert Anderson In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. Enid Bagnold In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. Helen Rowland Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. Lewis Grizzard It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. Helen Rowland It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. Euripides It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. Rodney Dangerfield

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. Alphonse Karr Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Ellen Key Love is often the fruit of marriage. Moliere Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Stephen Leacock Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Beverley Nichols Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. Linda Fiorentino Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. Yoko Ono Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. Mae West Marriage is a mistake every man should make. George Jessel Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? Groucho Marx Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Billy Connolly Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an exercise in torture. Frances Conroy Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and

segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. Jack Kingston Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. St. Jerome Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. Alan King Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. Sophia Bush Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. Ogden Nash Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. Michel de Montaigne Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. Jane Harrison Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. Robert Graves Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage". Herbert Spencer Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the wellbeing of their families. Melissa Bean Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! Patrice Leconte Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. Josh Billings Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. H. L. Mencken

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. Doug Larson My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. Rita Rudner Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. Jean Rostand Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. Elbert Hubbard Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. Edgar Watson Howe No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. Benjamin Disraeli No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. Honore de Balzac On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. Emma Goldman One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. Judith Viorst One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore de Balzac One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Robert Burton Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Joseph Joubert Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Jean Jacques Rousseau Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. Groucho Marx Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. John Boehner Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. Antisthenes

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. Henny Youngman Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. P. J. O'Rourke Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. H. L. Mencken The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. Brendan Behan The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. Peter De Vries The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. John Gay The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. A. P. Herbert The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. A. P. Herbert The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter De Vries The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. George Jessel The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. Honore de Balzac The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. Finley Peter Dunne The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Henny Youngman The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much. Colin Chapman The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. Cyril Connolly There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear. Thomas Chatterton

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. Steven Curtis Chapman They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. Henry Ward Beecher When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. Prince Philip When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. Helen Gahagan When I get married, it'll be no secret. Elvis Presley When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. Friedrich Nietzsche When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. Marie Osmond Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. Hesiod Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? Barbra Streisand Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? Gary Becker