A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Never do wrong when people are looking.
Mark Twain
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
Abraham Lincoln
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
Kurt Vonnegut
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.
I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him.
Paulo Coelho
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
Terry Pratchett
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
Albert Camus
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.
John Green
He who hates vice hates men.
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
Sir John Mortimer
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Theresa
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God --the rest will be given.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.
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