quotes for hope
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Books," Society and Solitude
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. ~Elliot Chaze
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~Sydney J. Harris
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau
Procrastination is the thief of time. ~Edward Young Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience. ~Luke Neely, 1953
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~Harry Truman
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ~Leo Rosten
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ~William Channing
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. ~Proverbs 6:6
The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary. ~Mary Kurtz
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ~Alfred Adler
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow
The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. ~Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6? of marriage! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. ~Attributed to Gene Baylos
Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed
