Sunday 26 August 2007

Quotable Quotes

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It IS THE same with a man. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. -- Noel Coward

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really THE COST of living high. -- Doug Larson

No man was ever wise by chance. -- Seneca

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. -- St. Augustine

He who praises everybody praises nobody. -- Samuel Johnson

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them DO not exist except in our imaginations. -- Steve Allen

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. -- Harper Lee

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -- Steven Wright

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -- Mildred Barthel

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. -- Patrick J. Buchanan

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.-- Charles Schulz

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. -- Anthony Brandt

Summer ends and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. -- Hal Borland

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it. Knute K. Rockne

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

The safest road to hell is the gradual one the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. -- C.S. Lewis

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. -- Carl Sandburg

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. -- Samuel Johnson

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -- Addison Walker

Question authority, but raise your hand first. -- Bob Thaves

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. -- Ernest Hemingway

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Fall in with it and turn it your way. -- Robert Frost

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. -- Iara Gassen

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. -- Eric Hoffer

You're never too old to grow up. -- Shirley Conran

A country free enough to examine its own conscience is a land worth living in, a nation to be envied. -- Prince Charles

The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. -- D.H. Lawrence

All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even The impossible may only be so, as of now. -- Pearl S. Buck

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. -- Arthur Koestler

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