Quotes

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. (Margaret Lee Runbeck)

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. (Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931)
He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. (Joan Brannon)
Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to aught that doth on time depend. (Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1474-1564)
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Francis Bacon, 1561-1626)


Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. (Buddha)
He who has learning without imagination has feet but no wings. (Stanley Goldstein)

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either. (Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 1906-1992, Canadian-born American philologist, educator, legislator)
How do you feel about women’s rights? I like either side of them. (Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx, 1890-1977)
How do you know when you’re old? When you double your age and realize you’re not going to live that long. (Michael J. Leydon II)
How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, “Who in the world am I?” Ah, that’s the great puzzle! (Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898)


Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets, or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. (Leo C. Rosten)




I’m always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice 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)
I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. (Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 1906-1992)
I’ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. (Lawrence Sumers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries)
I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. (Beverly Sills)
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. (Emily Bronte)
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (Jerome David Salinger)