Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Rob Sheffield

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Rob Reiner

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Richard Paul Evans

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.

R. A. Salvatore

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

Pamela Anderson

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

Helen Rowland

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Carl Sandburg

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Elbert Hubbard

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Andrew Cuomo

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

Anna Seward

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Robert Herrick

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

William Mapother

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

Will Durant

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

Sara Evans

Even the wise need wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

William Ellery Channing

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Faulkner

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Raymond E. Feist

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

Richard Francis Burton

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.