Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather
The stars are the street lights of eternity. ~Author Unknown
Adultery is the application of democracy to love. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, "So? Did you learn anything today?" But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist. ~Isidor Isaac Rabi
A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Talmud
Art is pictures straight from the heart. ~Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. ~Ross Perot
Long A: The most frequently asked question I get is on copyright and permissions, from people working on projects to be published. If you need permission to use a particular quote, that request would need to go through the original author or their publishing company. I am not familiar with the copyright guidelines for using individual quotations in published materials such as greeting cards and calendars. Some cases might be covered under fair use, but if in doubt you will probably want to request permission. An exception is material from authors who died more than 95 years ago, in which case the copyright has likely expired. As far as I am aware, compilations such as this site and other published quotation anthologies are covered under fair use. To learn more, visit the U.S. Copyright Office's extensive FAQ at copyright.gov or search Google for copyright, fair use (U.S.), or fair dealing (international).
Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain. ~Alec Douglas Home
I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown
For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. ~Mabel Maney
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954
Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another. ~Arnold Toynbee
Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~Lord Byron
Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. ~Author Unknown
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ~Mahatma Gandhi
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure. ~Anna Quindlen
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. ~John Burroughs
Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is. ~Carol Siskind
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander Pope
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable. ~A.P. Herbert, Misleading Cases, 1935
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd
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