The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.
You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.
Meg Whitman
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Chinese Proverb
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Tommy Bolt
Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He gotpretty good. He could go under a rug.
Steven Wright
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
Russell Baker
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
Jodi Picoult
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
John Donne
Do not employ handsome servants.
Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have it is about those who gave it to us.
Mike Huckabee
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
Freddy Fender
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
Diane Wakoski
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.
Toni Braxton
Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness
Kahlil Gibran
One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
Virginia Woolf
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro
The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
John Green
If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan
See, winners embrace hard work.
Lou Holtz
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
Lester B. Pearson
The tongue can paint what the eye can't see.
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