Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
Sarah McLachlan
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Thomas Overbury
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Sophocles
We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
Patti LuPone
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
George A. Romero
Friendship is Love without his wings!
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Eric Hoffer
I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
Michael Shermer
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Louise J. Kaplan
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
Robert Plant
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
Loretta Young
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Jena Malone
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo
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