"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." ........   Winston Churchill

"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."

"Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return." ...   The Bible

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."....   Thomas Jefferson"

"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." ..... Henry Ward Beecher

"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." .......   Josh Billings

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." .... Elbert Hubbard

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." ...  Charles Caleb Colton

"A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." ........   Proverbs 29:11

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." ....  Thomas Jefferson

"To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it." ..... Samuel Butler

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath." ...... Emily Dickinson

"Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble." .... Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence." Thomas Wolfe

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase." .... Epictetus

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." ....   Jimmy Durante

"You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles." .....  Robert Lee Frost

"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.” ....            Confucius

"Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.” .....  Bertrand Russell

"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own." ......  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." .... Andre Gide

 "Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay." .....  Plato

 "We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." ..... Jim Rohn

 "I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity."             ......      Charles Dudley Warner

 "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution” ....  Bertrand Russell

 “Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.” .....  The Bible

 "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."   ......  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts than tears do." ........ Mme. de Sartory

 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”  ......  Dale Carnegie