"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."

Proverb, Scottish on happiness
3 fans of this quote   

"Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper."

Proverb, Scottish on marriage   

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend."

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe on forgiveness
7 fans of this quote   

"A reconciled friend is a double enemy."

Proverb on forgiveness
4 fans of this quote   

"When money speaks the truth is silent."

Proverb, Russian on money
9 fans of this quote   

"The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on money
3 fans of this quote   

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

Horne, Lena on attitude
15 fans of this quote   

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on desire
12 fans of this quote   

"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"

Antoinette, Marie on famous last words
5 fans of this quote   

"My work is done why wait."

Eastman, George on famous last words   

"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it."

Proverb, Russian on happiness
8 fans of this quote   

"Pray to God but continue to row to the shore."

Proverb, Russian on prayer
6 fans of this quote   

"When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall."

Unknown, Source on failure
6 fans of this quote   

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

Barton, Bruce on enthusiasm   

"With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back."

Proverb, Russian on lies and lying
6 fans of this quote   

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."

Gillies, Jerry on self discovery
3 fans of this quote   

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
15 fans of this quote   

"We always come back to our first love."

Etienne on love
7 fans of this quote   

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

Ruskin, John on ability
6 fans of this quote   

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Channing, William Ellery on difficulties
8 fans of this quote   

"When you are at peace with yourself anyplace is home."

Unknown on peace
6 fans of this quote   

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on honor
13 fans of this quote   

"Fear is proof of a low born soul."

Virgil on fear   

"Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil on fortune   

"Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion."

Proverb, American on parents and parenting
3 fans of this quote   

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
5 fans of this quote   

"If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances."

Soul, Julia on risk
5 fans of this quote   

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

Nevill, Dorothy on conversation
7 fans of this quote   

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

Burns, George on passion
20 fans of this quote   

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
54 fans of this quote   

"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
22 fans of this quote   

"Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on economy and economics
3 fans of this quote   

"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
10 fans of this quote   

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
29 fans of this quote   

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
18 fans of this quote   

"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
21 fans of this quote   

"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on equality
6 fans of this quote   

"The eye is easily frightened."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
3 fans of this quote   

"If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
4 fans of this quote   

"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
18 fans of this quote