“Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.” — Dorothy Parker
“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards.” — Alberto Salazar
“One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.” — L. M. Montgomery
“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” — Bill Gates
“What makes us human is an ability to ask questions.” — Jane Goodall
“A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.” — Albert Einstein
“Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.” — Livy
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.” — Phyllis Diller
“Extreme justice is often unjust.” — Jean Racine
“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.” — Thomas Moore
“For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.” — Fernandez de Andrada
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.” — Robert Frost
“The most profound statements are often said in silence.” — Lynn Johnston
“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” — Robert Kennedy
“You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.” — Warren Buffet
“Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.” — Caroline Schoeder
“Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.” — Chinese Proverb
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Be yourself, but be your best self.” — Unknown
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” — H.G. Wells
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.” — John Locke
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” — Robert Fulghum
“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” — Maggie Smith
“Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.” — Erma Bombeck
“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.” — Miguel de Unamuno
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” — Aldous Huxley
“Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?” — Jim Rohn
“Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.” — Coleman Cox
“Despair is anger with no place to go.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.” — Carl Jung
“If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?” — George Carlin
“Good taste is the flower of good sense.” — A. Poincelot
“You pray for the rain, you gotta deal with the mud too.” — Denzel Washington
“To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance
To the future in the distance
Give yourselves” — Carrie Chapman Catt
“You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.” — Franklin Jones
“You can’t change the music of your soul.” — Katharine Hepburn
“If you don’t know how much you need, the default easily becomes ‘more.’” — Ryan Holiday
“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.” — Victor Hugo
“Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out; but I can usually shut her up with cookies.” — Cora Harvey Armstrong