| Random Quotes |
| Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. ~ Bernard M. Baruch |
| Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. ~ Mary C. Crowley |
| If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me. ~ Robert M. McCheyne |
| Silence was never written down. ~ Italian Proverb |
| I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. ~ Henri Matisse, |
| All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. ~ Theodore White |
| A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions – so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~ English Proverb |
| Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. ~ Robert C. Savage, |
|
| The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases. ~ Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval ( |
| Souls wouldn’t wear suits and ties, they’d wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. ~ Carrie Latet |
| An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school. ~ David Walters |
| If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~ John Churton Collins, |
| Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way. ~ Pamela Dugdale |
| The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~ Lao-tzu |
| Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick…. You’re back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps… so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. ~ Dylan Thomas, |