quotes for picnik

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. ~Bernard M. Baruch


When life throws you scraps, make a quilt. ~Author Unknown


Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. ~Sam Levenson


If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. ~Daniel Marsh, 1950


Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. ~John Lancaster Spalding


It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. ~Edmund Burke


There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. ~David G. Myers, Social Psychology


Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter


I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. ~Henry David Thoreau


When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. ~Eda LeShan


Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo


Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey


All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. ~Voltaire, Jeannot et Colin


No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings


When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. ~John Locke


There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace


In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance," Essays, 1841