Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
The [...]
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I [...]
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
Don’t drink and drive, you might hit a bump and spill your drink.
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Stay busy, [...]
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
America’s [...]
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
The only rule in art is what works.
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something [...]
A new baby is like the beginning of all things, hope, a dream of possibilities.
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease while his legs increase.
Children reinvent your world for you.
A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.
A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.
A baby [...]
Beauty lies in the specific looks of a person, rather than the object, because different people feel beauty in differnt things.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
The future belongs [...]
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out.
A best friend shares the good times and help you out by listening during the bad times.
One’s best friend is oneself.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you [...]
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed.
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a [...]
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
A room without a book is like a body without a soul.
People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our [...]
A break up is like a broken mirrior. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.
No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.
Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to [...]
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands
It takes a village to raise a child.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Every child comes with the message [...]
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am [...]
A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent.
Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich.
Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.
Caffeine isn’t a drug, it’s a vitamin !!
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
No one can [...]
College is the best time of your life.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
College isn’t [...]
A computer is like the union, it never works unless you spend money on it.
Artificial intellegence is no match for natural stupidity.
Alcohol and calculus don’t mix… Don’t drink and derive.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in [...]
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and long honourable courses with [...]
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’
This will never be [...]
If you get thrown from a horse, you have to get up and get back on, unless you landed on a cactus; then you have to roll around and scream in pain.
A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a [...]
The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.
The worst way to miss someone, is to have them sitting right next to you & you know you can never have them.
No guy is worth your tears & the ones who are won’t make you cry.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheaper [...]
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Our dreams drench us in senses, [...]
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
If you can walk, you can run.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever [...]
Control your emotion or it will control you.
The emotional virus lives and thrives in the gap between expectations and perceived reality.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
The emotions are sometimes so strong [...]
We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
In [...]
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
The sun, the [...]
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
Mistakes are painful when they [...]
Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
A failure is a man [...]
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
A candle loses nothing of its light by [...]
I do not believe in fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
If you can’t change your fate, change your [...]
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The coward does it with [...]