We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. {Abigail Adams}
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacepptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. {Alice Killer}
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. {Dorothy Day}
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. {John Locke}
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. {Ralph Waldo Emerson}
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. {Josh Billings}
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. {Lord Chesterfield}
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. {Alexis Carrel}
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. {Erica Jong}
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. {Jane Austen}
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. {Robert Louis Stevenson}
Eat a third, and drink a third, and leave the remaining third of your stomacch empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. {Babylonian Talmud}
Anger as soon as fed is dead-- 'Tis starving makes it fat. {Emily Dickinson}
Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. {Laurence J. Peter}
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anythiing. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about change. {Malcom X}
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. {Maxine Waters}
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. {Herm Albright}<
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. {Martha Washington}
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. {William James}
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. {John Constable}
Beauty is not caused. It is. {Emily Dickinson}
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. {Alice Walker}
Of one thing I am certain: the body is not the measure of healing -- peace is the measure. {George Melton}
The body says what words cannot. {Martha Graham}
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. {Marilyn Ferguson}
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. {Austin Phelps}
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. {Charles Caleb Colton}
Books are the most quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. {Charles W. Eliot}
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book... {Dwight D. Eisenhower}
A room without books is like a body without a soul. {G.K. Chesterton}
Woe be to him that reads but one book. {George Herbert}
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. {Groucho Marx}
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? {Henry Ward Beecher}
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. {Andy Warhol}
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. {Carol Burnett}
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. {Harrison Ford}
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. {James Gordon, M.D.}
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. {King Whitney Jr.}
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. {Lynn Hall}
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. {Marcus Aurelius Antoninus}
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. {Nelson Mandela}
Change your thoughts and you change your world. {Norman Vincent Peale}
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. {Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}
To measure the man, measure his heart. {Audrey Hepburn}
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. {Helen Keller}
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. {Robert Lynd}
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. {Norman Vincent Peale}
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. {Alan Perlis}
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. {Andy Rooney}
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. {Bill Gates}
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. {Bradley's Bromide}
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. {Amelia Earhart}
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. {Corra Harris}
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. {Dorothy Bernard}
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. {Eddie Rickenbacker}
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. {Harper Lee}
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. {Mark Twain}
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. {Mignon McLaughlin}
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. {Havelock Ellis}
Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. {Martha Graham}
Nothing is more revealing than movement. {Martha Graham}
A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. {George Bernard Shaw}
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. {Faith Whittlesey}
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. {Proverb}
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now! {Thomas F. Healey}
I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this. {Hugh Hamilton}
God's finger touched him, and he slept. {Alfred, Lord Tennyson}
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. {W. Somerset Maugham}
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. {Martina Navratilova}
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. {Charles William Dement}
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. {H. F. Hedge}
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. {Henry David Thoreau}
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. {Will Rogers}
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. {Benjamin Franklin}
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. {James Madison}
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. {Anatole France}
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. {Elbert Hubbard}
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. {Richard Bach}
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. {Emily Dickinson}
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead. {Woody Allen}
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food. {Jean Baudrillard}
Never eat more than you can lift. {Miss Piggy}
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? {Marie Antoinette}
Now comes the mystery. {Henry Ward Beecher}
The fog is rising. {Emily Dickinson}
My work is done, why wait. {George Eastman}
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. {Thomas Hobbes}
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. {J. Donald Adams}
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. {Norman Cousins}
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in. {Ralph Waldo Emerson}
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. {Germaine Greer}
What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists. {Archibald Macleish}
My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. {Malcolm X}
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. {Source Unknown}
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. {Cicero}
A library is thought in cold storage. {Herbert Samuel}
Libraries are not made; they grow. {Augustine Birrell}
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. {Augustine Birrell}
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. {Barbara Tuchman}
I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all of the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request. {Luigi Barzini}
