It looks like GeoCities will only let html files get so big. Consequently, the first quote page I made got so big that they would not let it grow any more. Therefore, you get Quote Page - The Sequel. It's exactly the same as the other one, except different. And thanks to my brother for starting it off with a good one.

"We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries; nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it." - Daniel Defoe

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." - Martha Washington

"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." - William H. Walton

"Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out." -Thomas Cardinal Wolsey

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." -Alfred Adler

"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." -Marcus Aurelius

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." -Leo Tolstoy

"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference." -Voltaire

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." -Helen Adams Keller

"There are two kinds of light-the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." -James Thurber

"Errors like straws upon the surface flow: / Who would search for pearls must dive below." -John Dryden

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." -Cicero

"Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease." -John Witherspoon

"Now, this is the truth. We humble people, we who feel ourselves sometimes so worthless, so good-for-nothing, we are not so worthless as we think. There is not one of us but what God's love has been expended upon. There is not one of us that He has not cared for and caressed. There is not one of us that He has not desired to save and that He has not devised means to save. There is not one of us that He has not given His angels charge concerning. We may be insignificant and contemptible in our own eyes and in the eyes of others, but the truth remains that we are the children of God and that He has actually given His angels-invisible beings of power and might-charge concerning us, and they watch over us and have us in their keeping." -George Q. Cannon

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." -Seneca

"He who seizes the right moment, is the right man." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"God desires that we learn and continue to learn, but this involves some unlearning. As Uncle Zeke said: 'It ain't my ignorance that done me up but what I know'd that wasn't so.' The ultimate evil is the closing of the mind or steeling it against truth, resulting in the hardening of intellectual arteries." -Hugh B. Brown

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." -George Baker

"There seems to be a superstition among many thousands of our young who hold hands and smooch in the drive-ins that marriage is a cottage surrounded by perpetual hollyhocks, to which a perpetually young and handsome husband comes home to a perpetually young and ravishing wife. When the hollyhocks wither and boredom and bills appear, the divorce courts are jammed.
"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop. Most beef is tough. Most children grow up to be just ordinary people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise....
"Life is like an old-time rail journey-delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." -Jenkin Lloyd Jones

"Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it." -Plato

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." -Charles A. Lindbergh

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." -George Washington

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." -Abraham Lincoln

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched." -Phaedrus

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." -Aldous Leonard Huxley

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe." -Abraham Lincoln

"When I was a child I often had toothache, and I knew that if I went to my mother she would give me something which would deaden the pain for that night and let me get to sleep. But I did not go to my mother-at least, not till the pain became very bad. And the reason I did not go was this. I did not doubt she would give me the aspirin; but I knew she would also do something else. I knew she would take me to the dentist next morning...And I knew those dentists;...Our Lord is like the dentists...Dozens of people go to Him to be cured of some one particular sin which they are ashamed of...Well, He will cure it all right; but he will not stop there. That may be all you asked; but if once you call Him in, He will give you the full treatment." -C.S. Lewis

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away." -Arthur Helps

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Berthold Auerbach

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is." -Chinese Proverb

"The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." -Cato the Younger

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." -Charles Caleb Colton

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." -Wayne Dyer

"No really great man ever thought himself so." -William Hazlitt

"Ego trips are almost always made on someone else's expense account." -Neal A. Maxwell

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." -George Washington

"Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered." -Helena Petrovna Hahn Blavatsky

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." -Aesop

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." -Jean-Paul Sartre

"You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult." -Judge Hall

"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love." -Henry Miller

"Never cut what you can untie." -Joubert

"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one." -Ivern Ball

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." -Charles Caleb Colton

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." -Marcus Aurelius

"You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself." -Martin Rutte

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln

"A doctor saves lives--it's up to people to create lives that are worth saving." -Philip Gold

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." -Calvin Coolidge

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you." -William Arthur Ward

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one." -J. Russell Lynes

"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it." -Henry George

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." -Og Mandino

"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great." -G.K. Chesterton

People are often unreasonable, illogical,
and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone
could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
-Mother Theresa

"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life." -Christopher Darlington Morley

"Subliminal messages...that's just a load of rich creamery butter." -Homer Simpson

"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may." -William Hazlitt

"Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." -Sydney J. Harris

"The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed." -Helen Keller

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." -Thomas Henry Huxley

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." -Derek Bok

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind." -James Russell Lowell

"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures." -Mahatma Gandhi

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Seek knowledge by study and by faith." -Joseph Smith, Jr.

"Help people to help themselves." -Brigham Young

"Leave your enemies to the Lord." -John Taylor

"Avoid confessing other people's sins." -Wilford Woodruff

"Aim to become creative." -Lorenzo Snow

"Do the best you can and leave the rest to the Lord." -Joseph F. Smith

"I would not be an enemy to any living soul." -George Albert Smith

"There is no cure for the ills of the world except the Gospel." -Joseph Fielding Smith

"Be true to the faith; just live the Gospel." -Harold B. Lee

"Cleanse the inner vessel by conquering pride." -Ezra Taft Benson

"Treat each other with more kindness, more courtesy, more humility, and patience and forgiveness." -Howard W. Hunter

"Keep trying. Keep believing. Be happy. Don't get discouraged. Things will work out." -Gordon B. Hinckley

"No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." -Booker T. Washington

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." -Indira Gandhi

"Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed." -Booker T. Washington

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." -Aldous Huxley

"Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere." -Dorothy Galyean

"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman." -Lord Chesterfield

"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results." -Emily Bronte

"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." -Carl Gustav Jung

"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

"The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?" -Dave Barry

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." -Colin Wilson

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." -Anatole France

"I never did a day's work in my life; it was all fun." -Thomas Edison

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine." -Longfellow

"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team." -John Wooden

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." -Irish Proverb

"All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable, and those who move!" -Benjamin Franklin

"Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house." -David Frost

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." -David Viscott

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." -Pablo Picasso

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." -Bertrand Russell

"When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet." -Chinese Proverb

"To teach is to learn twice." -Joseph Joubert

"Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled." -The Hitopadesa

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." -George Washington Carver

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." -Albert Einstein

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." -Chinese Proverb

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." -Josh Billings

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life." -Jesse Lee Bennett

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain."
-Emily Dickinson

"God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." -Swedish proverb

"Write the bad things that are done to you in the sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." -Arabian wisdom

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." -Charles Wadsworth

"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." -Socrates

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -Mohandas Gandhi

"I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed." -Mark Twain

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." -Leonardo da Vinci

"Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose." -Dan McKinnon

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore. That's what parents were created for." -Ogden Nash

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." -Abraham Lincoln

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayers." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains...But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree...when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into theyself." -Marcus Aelius Aurelius

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." -John Nichols

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." -Chinese proverb

"The big thieves hang the little ones." -Czech proverb

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

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye." -Samuel Grafton

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." -Isaac Newton

"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves." -Plato

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science." -Albert Einstein

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight." -Theodore Roosevelt

"Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak, you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind." -Queen Elizabeth I

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." -Edward Everett Hale

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." -Rabindranath Tagore

"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawning and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." -John Muir

"The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon." -Charles Schultz

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." -Abraham Lincoln

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer is as inexorable as one's self!" -Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." -John F. Kennedy

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." -Abraham Lincoln

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." -Samuel Tyler Coleridge

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family." -George Bernard Shaw

"Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It happens every day." -Albert Camus

"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself." -Giovanni Ruffini

"The hottest places in hell are reserverd for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." -Dante Alighieri

"Whatever advice you give, keep it short." -Horace

"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mightly bloodless substitute for life." -Robert Louis Stevenson

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man." -Benjamin Franklin

"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." -Galileo Galilei

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln

"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to life with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else." -Arnold Bennett

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he made so many of them." -Abraham Lincoln

"E. T. Sullivan once wrote these interesting words: 'When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she puts it into the baby's mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.'" -Gordon B. Hinckley

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." -Zig Ziglar

"Character is simply habit long continued." -Plutarch

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." -Lao Tzu

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." -Galileo Galilei

"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes the master, since he cannot live without him." -George Bernard

"Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk." -Charan Singh

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." -Booker T. Washington

God Quotes

"Let's meet at my house Sunday before the game." -God
"C'mon over and bring the kids." -God
"What part of "Thou Shalt Not..." didn't you understand?" -God
"We need to talk." -God
"Keep using my name in vain, I'll make rush hour longer." -God
"Loved the wedding, invite me to the marriage." -God
"That 'Love They Neighbor' thing...I meant it." -God
"I love you and you and you and you..." -God
"Will the road you're on get you to my place?" -God
"Follow me." -God
"Big bang theory, you've got to be kidding." -God
"My way is the highway." -God
"Need directions?" -God
"You think it's hot here?" -God
"Have you read my #1 best seller? There will be a test." -God
"Do you have any idea where you're going?" -God
"Don't make me come down there." -God

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." -John Ruskin

"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property." -Charles Dudley Warner

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." -William Shakespeare

"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works." -Bill Vaughan

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." -Robert Service

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." -Lornardo Da Vinci

"Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within that enormous immensity." -Wernher von Braun

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -Thomas Jefferson

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -Susan Ertz

"A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one." -Thomas Carlyle

"I count him braver who overcoms his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." -Aristotle

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -William James

"Never confuse motion with action." -Benjamin Franklin

"One kind word can warm three winter months." -Japanese proverb

"In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself." -Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -James Madison

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." -Irish proverb

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." -James Matthew Barrie

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg." -Anonymous

"You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." -William Feather

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regainst its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There's nothing that keeps its youth
so far as I know, but a tree and truth."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit." -Ronald Reagan

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." -Victor Hugo

"If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." -Goethe

"Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish." -Ovid

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." -Thomas Jefferson

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail." - John Foster Dulles

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." -Thomas Jefferson

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the fun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." -Albert Schweitzer

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have to succeed in doing what is necessary." -Winston Churchill

"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight.
But they, while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweether to a man than his children?" -Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is." -Leonardo DaVinci

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." -Eden Phillpotts

"An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind." -Mohandas Karamchand Gandi

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Theresa

"I thought it was better to lean into the stiff wind of opportunity, than to simply hunker down and do nothing." -Gordon B. Hinckley

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." -Saint Augustine

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." -Confucious

"I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful." -John Ruskin

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Anne Frank

"Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him." -Frank A. Clark

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." -Thomas Babington Macaulay

"A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it." -Frank A. Clark

"What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Talent develops in quiet; character in the maelstrom of the world." -Goethe

"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understant truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight." -Vaclav Havel

"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it." -Jules Rendard

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." -Greek proverb

"The most wasted of all day s is one without laughter." -e.e. cummings

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes." -Frank Lloyd Wright

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go." -William Shakespeare

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." -William Congreve

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." -Goethe

"To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought and felt with style." -Aldous Huxley

"A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." -Samuel Johnson

"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars." -Garrison Keillor

"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both." -John Andrew Holmes

"The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist." -Rabindranath Tagore

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire." -Reggie Leach

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." -Buddha

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way." -Walter C Hagen

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Truth is not determined by majority vote." -Doug Gwyn

"Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes pleasure of duty." -Bishop Doane

"Judge not the horse by his saddle." -Chinese Proverb

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix it's intellectual eye." -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Gratitude is twin sister to humility; pride is a foe to both." -James E. Talmage

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness." -James E. Faust

"Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby---there isn't any comparison." -Chris Evert Lloyd

"In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. How is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?" -Cyril Connolly

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion." -Plato

"No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable." -Robert Louis Stevenson

"I am wounded but I am not slain. I shall lay me down and bleed a while, then I shall rise and fight again." -Scottish proverb

"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." -Samuel Butler

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -Winston Churchill

"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiation of their personalities." -Kahlil Gibran

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." -Viktor Frankl

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -Isaac Newton

"Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breathtakingly serious." -Boris Pasternak

"Little strokes fell great oaks." -Benjamin Franklin

Forgiving the unforgivable is hard. So was the cross: hard words, hard wood, hard nails." -William S. Stoddard

"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which is possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community...The man who dies rich dies disgraced." -Andrew Carnegie

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common--this is my symphony." -William Henry Channing

"There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them." -Casey Stengel

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." -Kahil Gibran

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." -Peter Ustinov

"No one has ever become poor by giving." -Anne Frank

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." -William Feather

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us." -Robert Louis Stevenson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." -Charles Evans Hughes

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." -Charles Darwin

"You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal. But these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure." -Michael Medved

"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness." - Elsa Schiaparelli

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice" - Abraham Lincoln

"I like to believe that people in teh long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau

"Laughter is inner jogging." - Norman Cousins

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment." - Robert Maynard Hutchins

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." - John Updike

"Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies. ... None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong. It is weakness ... that invites adventurous adversaries to make mistaken judgments." - Ronald Reagan

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." - Kin Hubbard

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson

"When one conciously and determinedly directs his thoughts, controls his acts, and tries to feel and constantly express his love, he becomes a person of love." - Spencer W. Kimball

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more." - Seneca

"Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine and earthquake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the faithfulness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion." - Ezra Taft Benson

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

"It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience. - John Adams.

"The great pleasure about a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." - Samuel Butler

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, He surely meant us to stick it out." - Arthur Koestler

"Children need models more than they need critics." - Joseph Joubert

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln

"Better keep yourself clean and bright, you are the window through which you must see the world." - George Bernard Shaw

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back." - Piet Hein

"Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far...I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp." - Browning

"Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others." -Johann Gottfried Von Herder

"A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes." -Cullen Hightower

"No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books." -Elizabeth Barret Browning

"A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood." -Chinese proverb

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." -Henry Winkler

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play." -John Cleese

"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." -Joseph Joubert

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." -Victor Hugo

"Given the choices made by some, we all end up with more protected pornography than protected children. Of course, better self-restraint than censorship, but urging self-restraint on hedonists is like discouraging Dracula from hanging around the blood bank!" -Neal A. Maxwell

"I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity." -Socrates

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, sore than the luster of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...or else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense what we have thought and felt all the time." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks." -Phillips Brooks

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." -George Washington

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults." -Socrates

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." -John Donne

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Crowfoot, Native American warrior

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness." -Confucius

"It's easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song.
But the man worth while is the one who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong.

For the test of the heart is trouble
And it always comes with years.
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth
Is the smile that shines through the tears." Anonymous

"Partake of life's bitter cups without becoming bitter." -Neal A. Maxwell

"We should spend more time ministering and less time administering." -Mervyn B. Arnold

"All men have fears, but the men who face their fears head on have courage also." -Thomas S. Monson

"When the light dawns and it finally comes to you that this gospel really is true and the work matters and that God is not going to come down and do it Himself, we will realize that we are the only hands He has got, and that we are the only feet He has got. When somebody knocks on those doors, it is with our knuckles. When we make contact on the street, it is our voice out there on that street corner. When we work with the less-active, Moroni and Mormon and Alma and Joseph Smith are not going to come down and go in that door and do that teaching; it is you and it is me, it is just people who get up, like we get up every morning and do the work of the Lord the way those men and their wives did it in the era and in their day and in their age, and in their time, but now it is our time. When we come to know this, then we will get on with the work." -Jeffery R. Holland

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery in a detour." -Anonymous

"I am like a huge, rough stone rolling down from a high mountain; and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force against religious bigotry, priestcraft, lawyer-craft, doctor-craft, lying editors, suborned judges and jurors, and the authority of perjured executives, backed by mobs, blasphemers, licentious and corrupt men and women all hell knocking off a corner here and a corner there. Thus, I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almighty." -Joseph Smith

"But in order to gain entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven we must not only be good but we are required to do good and be good for something." -Harold B. Lee

"There is any amount of property, and gold and silver in the earth and on the earth, and the Lord gives to this one and that one the wicked as well as the righteous to see what they will do with it, but it all belongs to him. . . . all we have to do is to try and find out what the Lord wants us to do with what we have in our possession, and then go and do it. . . . Our legitimate business is to do what the Lord wants us to do with that which he bestows upon us, and dispose of it just as he dictates, whether it is to give all, one-tenth, or the surplus." -Brigham Young

The Captain's Daughter

We were crowded in the cabin,
Not a soul would dare to sleep,
It was midnight on the waters,
And a storm was on the deep.

"Tis a fearful thing in winter
To be shattered by the blast,
And to hear the rattling trumpet
Thunder, "Cut away the mast!"

So we shuddered there in silence,
For the stoutest held his breath,
While the hungry sea was roaring
And the breakers talked with Death.

As thus we sat in darkness,
Each one busy with his prayers,
"We are lost!" the captain shouted
As he staggered down the stairs.

But his little daughter whispered,
As she took his icy hand,
"Isn't God, upon the ocean,
Just the same as on the land?"

Then we kissed the little maiden.
And we spoke in better cheer,
And we anchored safe in harbour
When the morn was shining clear.

- James T. Fields

 

Yogi-isms and Stengel-ese

 

Ronald Reagan-isms

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