When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. ~Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge. ~Philip Massinger, Fatal Dowry, 1632
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ~Noel Coward, 1956
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman
It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat. ~Loren Eiseley, "The Innocent Fox," The Star Thrower, 1978
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ~George Eliot
I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. ~Nancie J. Carmody
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul. ~Bruce McCall, "The Case Against Golf," Esquire
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ~Chris Cobbs
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. ~Author Unknown
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson
Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt. ~Fletcher Knebel
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster
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