Anger Quotes

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. Christopher Morley

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. James Fallows

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. Cato

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mohandas Gandhi

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Albert Einstein

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. Louis L'Amour

Anger is a short madness. Horace

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. Thomas Fuller

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Francis Bacon

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas Kempis

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. Richard M. Nixon

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. Alfred A. Montapert

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive? Roseanne Barr

Beauty Quotes

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. Adlai E. Stevenson

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. George Meredith

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. Anne Roiphe

A women's greatest asset is her beauty. Alex Comfort

Beauty and folly are old companions. Benjamin Franklin

Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. Munshi Premchand

Beauty has a lot to do with character. Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume

Beauty is a fragile gift. Ovid

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

H. G. Wells

Beauty is less important than quality. Eugene Ormandy

Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson

Beauty is only skin deep. Thomas Overbury

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person. Amanda Peet

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime. Alicia Machado

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Friendship Quotes

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard

A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker

Friendship and money: oil and water. Mario Puzo

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield

Love Quotes

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Frank Howard Clark

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. Boethius

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds

himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews

All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach

Do all things with love. Og Mandino

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland

Success Quotes

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley

Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. Shirley Jones

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Abraham Lincoln

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Edward Woodberry

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. David Frost

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck

Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. Anthony J. D'Angelo

Wisdom Quotes

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Henry David Thoreau

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Huneker

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. Mary Wilson Little

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. Lord Chesterfield

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Henry David Thoreau

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. William Ralph Inge

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt

Intelligence Quotes

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. Catherine Deneuve

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence. Napoleon Hill

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. Alan Alda

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. Julius Charles Hare

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. Janis Joplin

Belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is not so common. Voltaire

Every true genius is bound to be naive. Friedrich Schiller

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings

Genius always finds itself a century too early. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. E. B. White

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. James Whistler

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. Mark Twain

Change Quotes

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change. James Levine

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Bruce Barton

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. Ellen Glasgow

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. Irene Peter

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. Bertolt Brecht

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Arthur Schopenhauer

Change before you have to. Jack Welch

Change brings opportunity. Nido Qubein

Change in all things is sweet. Aristotle

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. Robert C. Gallagher

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin. Denise McCluggage

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better. Esther Dyson

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. Harry Emerson Fosdick

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. Harold Wilson

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean. Julie Walters

Time Quotes

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? Tillie Olsen

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. Jonathan Carroll

But time growing old teaches all things. Aeschylus

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important. Mariel Hemingway

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Doug Larson

I took some time out for life. James L. Brooks

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. H. G. Wells

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden

Know how to live the time that is given you. Dario Fo

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson

Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Dion Boucicault

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton

My time is now. John Turner

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. John Wanamaker

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. Menachem Mendel Schneerson

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln

Funny Quotes

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. Erma Bombeck

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. Bob Hope

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. Steven Wright

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. Yogi Berra

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." Claude Pepper

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. Groucho Marx

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. Casey Stengel

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. Bill Cosby

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. Hedy Lamarr

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. Groucho Marx

As I get older, I just prefer to knit. Tracey Ullman

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. Bette Davis

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. Mark Twain

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. Fred Allen

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. P. J. O'Rourke

Inspirational Quotes

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. Joyce A. Myers

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. Donald Cargill

Belief creates the actual fact. William James

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. William Ellery Channing

Give light and people will find the way. Ella Baker

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. Jim Elliot

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. Arthur Young

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher

Great hopes make great men. Thomas Fuller

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. Lao Tzu

Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. Vincent McNabb

Nature Quotes

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Lou Holtz

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. John Muir

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see. David Douglas

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner

A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katharine Graham

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. Hal Borland

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Abraham Lincoln

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Langston Hughes

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. Roger Tory Peterson

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose Kennedy