quotes about values

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. ~Liz Smith


God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward


Don't offer a neurotic happiness - he'll never take it. There's a bout of misery keeping him perfectly content. ~Terri Guillemets


There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. ~Thomas de Quincey


It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici


I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary


Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. ~Epictetus


We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors. ~Weldon Drew


It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble. ~Kenny, age 7, when asked if it's better to be single or married


I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. ~Mahatma Gandhi


Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold


He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Confidence and hope do more good than physic. ~Galen


Sing hey! Sing hey!


It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. ~Psalms 127:2


The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ~Arthur Schopenhauer


Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. ~Archibald Philip Primrose


We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898


If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Le Misanthrope


A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler