No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington Quotes
Chevy Chase Quotes
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. - Chevy Chase
Thomas Hardy Quotes
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Thomas Hardy
Ayn Rand Quotes
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand
Robert Plant Quotes
People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions. - Robert Plant
Henry Ford Quotes
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. - Henry Ford
Woodrow Wilson Quotes
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. - Woodrow Wilson
Henry Ford Quotes
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. - Henry Ford
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Florence Nightingale Quotes
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. - Florence Nightingale
Dr. Seuss Quotes
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. - Dr. Seuss
Frank Zappa Quotes
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa
Havelock Ellis Quotes
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. - Havelock Ellis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. - Theodore Roosevelt
Emo Philips Quotes
He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites. - Emo Philips
Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. - Ernest Hemingway
Henry Ford Quotes
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. - Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. - Henry Ford
Ernest Hemingway Quotes
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. - Ernest Hemingway
Maya Angelou Quotes
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. - Maya Angelou
Havelock Ellis Quotes
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. - Havelock Ellis
Richard Burton Quotes
I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning. - Richard Burton
Florence Nightingale Quotes
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Havelock Ellis Quotes
The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum. - Havelock Ellis
Malcolm X Quotes
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. - Malcolm X
J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Martin Luther Quotes
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. - Martin Luther
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Frank Zappa Quotes
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. - Frank Zappa
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Paul Newman Quotes
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. - Paul Newman
Havelock Ellis Quotes
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. - Havelock Ellis
Albert Camus Quotes
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. - Albert Camus
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. - Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? - Elizabeth Taylor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Richard Burton Quotes
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional. - Richard Burton
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Mae West Quotes
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. - Mae West
Brian Tracy Quotes
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. - Brian Tracy
J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Mae West Quotes
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else. - Mae West
Malcolm X Quotes
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X
Richard Burton Quotes
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. - Richard Burton
Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. - Elizabeth Taylor
Albert Camus Quotes
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. - Albert Camus
Martin Luther Quotes
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. - Martin Luther
Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. - Elizabeth Taylor
Havelock Ellis Quotes
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. - Havelock Ellis
Paul Newman Quotes
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. - Paul Newman
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Havelock Ellis Quotes
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. - Havelock Ellis
Frank Zappa Quotes
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. - Frank Zappa
Richard Burton Quotes
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice. - Richard Burton
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Martin Luther Quotes
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. - Martin Luther
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Brian Tracy Quotes
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. - Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy Quotes
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. - Brian Tracy
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert Camus Quotes
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus
Richard Burton Quotes
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. - Richard Burton
Maya Angelou Quotes
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. - Maya Angelou
Paul Newman Quotes
So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this. - Paul Newman
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Brian Tracy Quotes
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. - Brian Tracy
Malcolm X Quotes
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. - Malcolm X
Florence Nightingale Quotes
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. - Florence Nightingale
Paul Newman Quotes
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one. - Paul Newman
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Florence Nightingale Quotes
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. - Florence Nightingale
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Frank Zappa Quotes
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. - Frank Zappa
Martin Luther Quotes
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. - Martin Luther
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Maya Angelou Quotes
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou
J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Richard Burton Quotes
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk. - Richard Burton
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