quotes on kindness

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. ~Elizabeth Andrew



Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown



...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954



Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda



Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ~Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad



Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb



If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist�s office would be full of luminous ideas. ~Mason Cooley



It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. ~Helen Keller



Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul



I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse



About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. ~Tom Wilson



What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Our language is funny - a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing. ~J. Gustav White



No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland



She was part of that generation who grew up during the Depression. But the Depression to her was like a trip to Six Flags. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "The Sopranos," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~Brooks Atkinson



Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims



I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry. ~Jean Rhys



Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around. ~Nancy Dedera



The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. ~Alexis de Tocqueville