quotes

“To lose patience is to lose the battle.” Mahatma Gandhi

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” John C. Maxwell

“Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.” Sir Winston Churchill

“One of the strongest motives that lead to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.” Albert Einstein

“The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.” Richard R. Grant

“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” Albert Camus, The Fall

“Jargon and slang speak volumes about the people who use them. Like a form of data compression, they can pack a tremendous amount of information -- the values, ideas, anxieties, and humor of a subculture -- into a single word or phrase. We can learn a lot about a subculture by decompressing its language. “ Gareth Branwyn, American journalist and writer, Jargon Watch, 1997

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.” Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)

“When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.” Anonymous

“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” John M. Richardson, Jr.

“Hatred - the anger of the weak.” Alphonse Daudet, writer (1840-1897)

“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.” Henry Ward Beecher

“Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest, For time will teach thee soon the truth, ‘There are no birds in last year's nest.’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.” Susan Glasee

“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.” Chinese Proverb

“When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.” Brian S. Wesbury, American Economist

“Procrastination means paying twice the price when you eventually must act.” T.A. McAloon

“Good music is very close to primitive language.” Denis Diderot, philosopher (1713-1784)

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.” Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951)

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.” Albert Einstein

“What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?” Rollo May

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” Muriel Rukeyser

“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox