I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. ~quotes on Government by Alexander Woollcott
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. ~sayings on Belief by Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. ~quotations on Critics by Jean Cocteau
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~graduation inspirational message by Henri Nouwen
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~saying about graduation message by Author Unknown
Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. ~quote about Adversity by From the movie The African Queen
To feel brave and cheerful, act brave and cheerful. Feeling will follow. ~quotes on Emotions by
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~sayings on Health by Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~quotations on Vacations by Elbert Hubbard
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~graduation inspirational message by Christopher Morley
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~saying about graduation message by Author Unknown
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~quote about Self-Control by Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. ~quotes on Marriage by H.L. Mencken
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~sayings on Relationships by Frederick Buechner
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~quotations on Life by Marion Howard
And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. ~graduation inspirational message by Author Unknown
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat. ~saying about graduation message by Author Unknown
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~quote about Confidence by Vincent Van Gogh
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night. ~quotes on Night by Mark Twain
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~sayings on Time by Benjamin Disraeli
God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them ~quotations on Patriot Day by Author Unknown
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism ~graduation inspirational message by Martin Luther King Jr.
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier ~saying about graduation message by Dan Bennett
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with ~quote about Adversity by Henry Ward Beecher
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. ~quotes on Religion by Sainte-Beuve, Les Cahiers
Football is a game played for 90 minutes by 22 men, and Germany always win.
~sayings on Sports by Gary Linneker
Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor. ~quotations on Sports by Abe Lemons
When you're in the midst of a blizzard, you don't shovel your driveway ... you scrape the pileup of snow off your roof to keep your house from falling in. Some of that snow may fall on a guest approaching your porch ... too bad ~graduation inspirational message by John DeLasaux
Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too. ~saying about graduation message by Will Rogers
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ~quote about Clothing by Edna Woolman Chase
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~quotes on Poetry by Percy Byshe Shelley
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. ~sayings on Curiosity by Bernard Baruch
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~quotations on Being Yourself by Johann von Goethe
Why always not yet? Do flowers in spring say not yet? ~graduation inspirational message by Norman Douglas
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. ~saying about graduation message by L'Estrange
Where there is no vision, people perish. ~quote about Career by Emerson
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~quotes on American football by Heywood Hale Brown