All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Tri

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Jon Meacham

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Henry David Thoreau

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Francois Rabelais

Pain is temporary...quitting is forever.

Anonymous

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

Eric Hoffer

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

Steve Maraboli

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Thomas Huxley

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Arnold Palmer