Favorite Quotes

  • "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
  • "Fear God, and your enemies will fear you." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards." Benjamin Franklin
  • "We have the best Congress that money can buy." Will Rogers
  • "Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt." Dr. Samuel Johnson
  • "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein
  • "As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." Albert Einstein
  • "No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." Bertrand Russell
  • "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." H. L. Mencken
  • "It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place." H. L. Mencken
  • "Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Henry Ward Beecher
  • "To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." Josh Billings
  • "There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." Josh Billings
  • "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." Jim Rohn
  • "We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." Jim Rohn
  • "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill
  • "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
  • "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." Elbert Hubbard
  • "Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men." Dr. Samuel Johnson
  • "Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better." George Santayana
  • "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." Irish Proverb
  • "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Winston Churchill
  • "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." Albert Camus
  • "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." Woody Allen
  • "My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." Jimmy Durante