The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
~quote about Goals by Vance Havner
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
~quotes on History by Romain Gary
Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
~sayings on Ignorance by Christopher Andrea
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
~quotations on Wise Words by Janis Joplin
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
~funny party quote by Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
~saying about party by Thomas Mann
Life is a long lesson in humility.
~quote about Life by James M. Barrie
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
~quotes on Confidence by William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604
Freedom is not enough
~sayings on Independence Day by Lyndon B. Johnson
It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.
~quotations on Civil Disobedience by Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~funny party quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
~saying about party by Sir Winston Churchill
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
~quote about America by Arnold Toynbee
God sells us all things at the price of labor
~quotes on Labor Day by Leonardo da Vinci
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
~sayings on Homosexuality by James Baldwin
'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
~quotations on Perspective by John Suckling, Sonnet, c.1638
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
~funny party quote by Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
~saying about party by G.K. Chesterton
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
~quote about Drugs by John Hardwick
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
~quotes on Brothers by Clara Ortega
He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
~sayings on Speaking by Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Misanthrope
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
~quotations on Curmudgeons by Henry Ward Beecher
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.
~funny party quote by Frederick W. Robertson
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
~saying about party by Author Unknown
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
~quote about Money by Frank Hubbard
Platonic love is like an inactive volcano
~quotes on Love by Andre Pevost
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
~sayings on Ideals by Harold Nicolson
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
~quotations on Logic by Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper, 1929 (Thank you, Jeff.)
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
~funny party quote by William R. Alger
No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.
~saying about party by Thomas Carlyle, Count Cagliostro, 1833
Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
~quote about Grandparents by Author Unknown
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
~quotes on Soul by Octave Mirbeau
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.
~sayings on Bicycling by Author Unknown
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.
~quotations on Compliments by Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
~funny party quote by Eric Hoffer
Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.
~saying about party by Author Unknown
A slip of the foot, you’ll soon recover; a slip of the tongue may last forever.
~quote about Friendship by
Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
~quotes on Golf by Bob Hope
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