quotes about peace

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer



In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige



There is no such thing as a little garlic. ~A. Baer



A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee. ~Brock Fiant



I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ~Martin H. Fischer



I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets. ~Wilson Mizner



Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ~Proverbs 26:12



Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort



Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~Thomas Szasz



At Christmas, all roads lead home. ~Marjorie Holmes



The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ~H.L. Mencken



What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell - this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William A. Ward



The bluebird carries the sky on his back. ~Henry David Thoreau



We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. ~Remy de Gourmont



The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk. ~Katherine Whitehorn



I feel something like a powerful oppression, like an immense fatigue after marching and marching across fever-laden jungles, or by the shores of deadly lakes... and I am flooded by discouragement, so that it seems I shall never be able to escape from myself again. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9



To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb