These are just a few of the quotes I find interesting


  • Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
    - Werner Heisenberg

  • Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
    - T.S. Eliot

  • Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you
    is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
    - W. Somerset Maugham

  • We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?
    - Oscar Hammerstein, II

  • Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
    - William Blake

  • People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
    - Abraham Lincoln

  • A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.
    - Patton

  • It can't rain all the time.
    - The Crow

  • Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
    - Robert Heinlein

  • Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
    - Hector Berlioz

  • Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
    - Thomas Carlyle

  • The world in all doth but two nations bear,-- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
    - Andrew Marvell

  • At the time you don't think much of it, you know,
    we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives.
    Back then I thought, "There'll be other days...",
    I didn't realize that was the only day.
    - Field of Dreams

  • Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
    - Sir Arthur Pinero

  • It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
    - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

  • Every man dies, not every man really lives.
    - Braveheart

  • What is to give light must endure burning.
    - Viktor Frankl

  • How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
    - E.T. the Extraterrestrial

  • Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
    - Laurance Peter

  • Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.
    - The Bible

  • If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,
    then we are a sorry lot indeed.
    -Albert Einstein

  • Dream as if you'll live forever.
    Live as if you'll die today.
    -James Dean

  • In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
    It goes on.
    -Robert Frost

  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
    -Eleanor Roosevelt

  • So many gods, so many creeds,
    So many paths that wind and wind,
    While just the art of being kind
    is all the sad world needs.
    -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  • We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
    -Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • He who knows others is wise,
    He who knows himself is enlightened.
    -Tao Te Ching

  • Art washes away from the soul
    the dust of everyday life.
    -Pablo Picasso

  • That love is all there is
    is all we know of love.
    -Emily Dickinson

  • We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
    we borrow it from our children.
    -Haida Indian Saying

  • We have just religion enough to make us hate,
    but not enough to make us love one another.
    -Jonathan Swift

  • Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
    -Soren Kierkegaard

  • We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
    -Agnes Repplier

  • The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
    -Lily Tomlin

  • The more I traveled the more I realized that
    fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
    -Shirley MacLaine

  • Looking back, I have this to regret,
    that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
    -David Grayson

  • Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
    -George Bernard Shaw

  • Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
    -Unknown

  • When you're with someone you don't love, a lifetime is forever.
    -Dana

  • A bell’s not a bell ‘til you ring it
    A song’s not a song ‘til you sing it
    Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay
    Love isn’t love ‘til you give it away!
    -Oscar Hammerstein

  • Do not belong so wholly to others
    that you do not belong to yourself.
    -Baltasar Gracian

  • Sticks and stones are hard on bones
    Aimed with angry art,
    Words can sting like anything
    But silence breaks the heart.
    -Phyllis McGinley

  • Do not save your loving speeches
    For your friends till they are dead;
    Do not write them on their tombstones,
    Speak them rather now instead.
    -Anna Cummins

  • All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
    -Buddha

  • Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own.
    You may both be wrong.
    -Unknown

  • Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul,
    And sings the tune without the words,
    And never stops at all.
    -Emily Dickinson

  • When I do good, I feel good.
    When I do bad, I feel bad.
    That’s my religion.
    -Abraham Lincoln

  • If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you;
    but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
    - Sanjay

  • I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
    -Pierre de Beaumarchais

  • If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
    -Voltaire

  • Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
    -John F. Kennedy

  • In America, anybody can be president.
    That's one of the risks you take.
    -Adlai Stevenson

  • Hmm. No. Either do, or do not. There is no try.
    -Yoda, Star Wars

  • What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
    -Dr. Robert Schuller

  • When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
    But when I got to be 21, I was astoished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
    -Mark Twain

  • A fanatic is one that cannot change his mind and will not change the subject.
    -Winston Churchill

  • The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
    -Winston Churchill



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