quotes about dreams and goals

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


I don't rent space to anyone in my head. ~Anonymous man on Candid Camera, answering Allen Funt's question about why he had not gotten upset


Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Stafford


Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman


I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ~Michel De Montaigne


Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ~Author Unknown


Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. ~Vivian Mercer


In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland


The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. ~R.D. Laing


Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends. ~Deborah Moggach


The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle


Precaution is better than cure. ~Edward Coke


God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us. ~Author Unknown


I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei


On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects


If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. ~Robert Fulghum


What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941 What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5 June 1972


Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. ~Dave Barry


It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Calvin


If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. ~George Barzan