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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
— G. K. Chesterton
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
— Baltasar Gracian
He hasn't an enemy in the world  and none of his friends like him.
— Oscar Wilde
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
— Christopher Morley
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar Wilde
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
— Eric Hoffer
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest  and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people  if not the eagerness  the passion for the same thing?
— Bernard Berenson
Whoever has his foe at his mercy  and does not kill him  is his own enemy.
— Sa'di
The little foxes that spoil the vines.
— Bible
We have met the enemy  and he is us.
— Walt Kelly
The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends  but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. Solomon ibn Gabirol Whoso sheddeth man's blood  by man shall his blood be shed.
— Bible
If we could read the secret history of our enemies  we should find in each man's life  sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.
— Richard Nixon
There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
— Euripides
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
— Arabic proverb
They love him most for the enemies that he has made.
— General E. S. Bragg
Man is his own worst enemy.
— Cicero
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare  And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If thine enemy hunger  feed him  if he thirst  give him drink.
— Romans
My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord  make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.
— Voltaire
England is a nation of voyeurs.
— Nigel Newton
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears  prejudices  misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
— David Lloyd George
George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
— Edmund C. Bentley
God save our Gracious King  Long live our Noble King  God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
— Henry Carey
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
— Dean Acheson
His Majesty's dominions  on which the sun never sets.
— Christopher North
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen  and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
— Charles Lamb
If I should die  think only this of me  that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
— Rupert Brooke
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
— George Bernard Shaw
Land of hope and glory  Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set  God who made thee mighty  make thee mightier yet.
— A. C. Benson
London is a roost for every bird.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
— Cecil Rhodes
Rule Britannia  Britannia  rule the waves  Britains never will be slaves.
— James Thomson
Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"
— Anthony Sampson
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French  the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
— William Hazlitt
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
— Lord Rosebery
The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
— Stevie Smith
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.
— Frank Field
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.
— Clement Attlee
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman  because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
— Truman Capote
The young Cambridge group  the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck  and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy  and a whispering  murmuring  sort of voice  and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
— D. H. Lawrence
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
— Clark Ross Parker
Without class differences  England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
— Anthony Burgess
You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded  at the other  the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.
— Thomas Appleton
Though I love my country  I do not love my countrymen.
— Lord Byron
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
— Voltaire
In England I would rather be a man  a horse  a dog or a woman  in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
— Bruce Gould
England is the paradise of individuality  eccentricity  heresy  anomalies  hobbies and humours.
— George Santayana
Not only England  but every Englishman is an island.
— Novalis
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
— James Agate
In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
— David Ormsby Gore
Oh  it's a snug little island! A right little  tight little island!
— Thomas Dibdin
I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
— Cedric Hardwicke
The Englishman respects your opinions  but he never thinks of your feelings.
— Wilfrid Laurier
The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.
— Daniel O'Connell
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
— Winston Churchill
Socialism has been preached for so long  the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
— Lord Thomson of Fleet
Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.
— T. Augustine Arne
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
— V. S. Pritchett
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
— Clement Attlee
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman  the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
— Margaret Halsey
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change  such as Bernard Shaw  Keir Hardie  Lloyd George  Selfridge or Disraeli  you will find that they are not really English at all  but Irish  Scotch  Welsh  American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes  sometimes great changes. But  secretly or openly  they always deplore them.
— Raymond Postgate
Where there is one Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean any falling off in the number of gardens. There will be three. The club will have one too.
— A. W. Smith
What should they know of England  who only England know?
— Rudyard Kipling
The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles  each on its own side of the road  each sounding its horn and each stationary.
— Philip Guedalla
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British  which amazes Americans  who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
— Paul Gallico
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
— Alexander Woollcott
We are articulate  but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence  he sometimes says something.
— Robert Morley
The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.
— Matthew Arnold
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period  telling the English some interesting things about themselves  and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
— Patrick Campbell
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
— Marshall McLuhan
The English may not like music  but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
— Thomas Beecham
That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
— Frank Adcock
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans  but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
— Wendy Michener
Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.
— Hugh Mills
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
— Hugh Casson
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
— George Bernard Shaw
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
— Stephen Leacock
A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.
— English proverb
If I should die  think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.
— Rupert Brooke
Oh  to be in England  Now that April's there.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In England there are sixty different religions  and only one sauce.
— Marquis Caraccioli
I have nothing to offer but blood  toil  tears and sweat.
— Winston Churchill
Be England what she will  With all her faults  she is my country still.
— Charles Churchill
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties  and so -bear ourselves that  if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years  men will still say  "This was their finest hour."
— Winston Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
— Winston Churchill
O  it's a snug little island! A right little  tight little island!
— Thomas Dibdin
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
— Benjamin Disraeli
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian  Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations  He remains an Englishman.
— W. S. Gilbert
What have I done for you  England  my England? What is there I would not do  England  my own?
— W. E. Henley
Froth at the top  dregs at bottom  but the middle excellent.
— Voltaire
The royal throne of kings  this scepter'd isle  This earth of majesty  this seat of Mars  This other Eden  demi-paradise  This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war  This happy breed of men  this little world  This precious stone set in the silver sea.
— William Shakespeare
fights you on patriotic principles  he robs you on business principles  he enslaves you on imperial principles.
— George Bernard Shaw
When Britain first at Heaven's command  Arose from out the azure main  This was the charter of the land  And Guardian angels sung this strain  "Rule Britannia! rule the waves  Britons never will be slaves."
— James Thomson
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
— J. K. Galbraith
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
— Samuel Johnson
After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
— Danish proverb
Danger and delight grow on one stalk .
— Old saying
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
— G. K. Chesterton
Pleasure for an hour  a bottle of wine  pleasure for a year  marriage  pleasure for a lifetime  a garden.
— Chinese saying
The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)
— Jean Paul Richter
The true spirit of delight  the exultation  the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence  is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
— Bertrand Russell
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
What the mass media offer is not popular art  but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food  forgotten  and replaced by a new dish.
— W. H. Auden
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
— Bertrand Russell
There are two things to aim at in life: first  to get what you want  and after that to enjoy it.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
— Henry David Thoreau
All the great pleasures in life are silent.
— Georges Clemenceau
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
— Henry Chester
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
— English proverb
Every luxury must be paid for  and everything is a luxury  starting with being in the world.
— Cesare Pavese
Enjoyment is not a goal  it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
— Paul Goodman
Most of the luxuries  and many of the so-called comforts  of life are not only not indispensable  but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
To really enjoy the better things in life  one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
— Oscar Homolka
If you resolve to give up smoking  drinking and loving  you don't actually live longer  it just seems longer.
— Clement Freud
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life  when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kingsley
No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.
— Anonymous
One's first book  kiss  home run is always the best.
— Clifton Fadiman
Let us have Wine and Women  Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
— Lord Byron
1. If your stomach disputes you  lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.
— Satchel Paige
Love  and do what you like.
— St. Augustine
Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.
— Maxwell Perkins
All the things I really like to do are either immoral  illegal or fattening.
— Alexander Woollcott
The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
— Lloyd Percival
The superfluous is very necessary.
— Voltaire
There are three ingredients in the good life  learning  earning and yearning.
— Christopher Morley
A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment  where I long once more for desire.
— Goethe
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
— C. S. Lewis
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
— Juvenal
With renunciation life begins.
— Amelia Barr
As I grow older  part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
— Bebe Moore Campbell
Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
— Madame de Stael
Enthusiasm is life.
— Paul Scofield
To sing is to love and affirm  to fly and soar  to coast into the hearts of the people who listen  to tell them that life is to live  that love is there  that nothing is a promise  but that beauty exists  and must be hunted for and found.
— Joan Baez
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you  And write by inward magic charm'd  And high enthusiasm warm'd?
— Joanna Baillie
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
— Tennessee Williams
Life is enthusiasm  zest.
— Sir Laurence Olivier
There is only one big thing-desire. And before it  when it is big  all is little.
— Willa Cather
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
— Henry Moore
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.
— Christian Morgenstern
Boredom is the fear of self.
— Comtesse Diane
It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
— Mary Parker Follett
Enthusiasm moves the world.
— Arthur James Balfour
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire  women will like him.
— Mae West
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
— Joseph Joubert
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves  my unexploited resources  perhaps my future.
— E. M. Cioran
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
— Margareth II, Queen of Denmark
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm  it moves stones  it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity  and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
— Ann Wigmore
Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
— Sheryl Adams
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight  but the size of the fight in the dog.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kingsley
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties  but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
— Charles A. Cerami
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
— Catfish Hunter
Vitality! That's the pursuit of life  isn't it?
— Katharine Hepburn
In things pertaining to enthusiasm  no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great  generous  and true  without it  we are little  false  and mean.
— L. E. Landon
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
— Mencius
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
— Christian Dior
What hunger is in relation to food  zest is in relation to life.
— Bertrand Russell
Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it  enjoy it  taste it  smell it  feel it.
— Joe Knapp
Let us go singing as far as we go  the road will be less tedious.
— Virgil
And whatsoever ye do  do it heartily.
— Bible
You will do foolish things  but do them with enthusiasm.
— Colette
Whatever you attempt  go at it with spirit. Put some in!
— David Starr Jordan
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action  nor motive to act.
— Claude Helvetius
What is man but his passion?
— Robert Penn Warren
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most  believe in most strongly  expect on the deepest level  and imagine most vividly.
— Shakti Gawain
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
— Sheila Graham
Only passions  great passions  can elevate the soul to great things.
— Denis Diderot
No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others  at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine  it may be superficial but it isn't fake.
— P. D. James
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
— Joanna Baillie
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting  but that doesn't matter.
— Beverly Sills
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
— Christina Stead
Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.
— Louisa Thomas
Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
— Judith Krantz
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
— George Hegel
If you're a champion  you have to have it in your heart.
— Chris Evert
Human nature  if it healthy  demands excitement  and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way  it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics  He makes no passionless saints.
— Oswald Chambers
All passions exaggerate  it is because they do that they are passions.
— Nicolas de Chamfort
If we resist our passions  it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be still when you have nothing to say  when genuine passion moves you  say what you've got to say  and say it hot.
— D. H. Lawrence
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion  though a bad regulator  is a powerful spring.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our passions are ourselves.
— Anatole France
People who never get carried away should be.
— Malcolm Forbes
This  indeed  is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done  yet  without control of that passion  its effects are largely ill or null.
— F. L. Lucas
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion  that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
— Margery Allingham
Optimism  unaccompanied by personal effort  is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
— Edward L. Curtis
When enthusiasm is inspired by reason  controlled by caution  sound in theory  practical in application  reflects confidence  spreads good cheer  raises morale  inspires associates  arouses loyalty  and laughs at adversity  it is beyond price.
— Coleman Cox
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
— William McFee
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility  like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm  you will be fired with enthusiasm.
— Vince Lombardi
You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart  if you want it to work.
— Susanna Clark
When his enthusiasm goes  he's through as a player.
— Pete Rose
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Give me a man who sings at his work.
— Thomas Carlyle
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
— Charles M. Schwab
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.
— Julia Child
The world belongs to the energetic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real difference between men is energy.
— Thomas Fuller
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.
— Hannah Moore
Flaming enthusiasm  backed up by horse sense and persistence  is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
— Dale Carnegie
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed  but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
— Bliss Carman
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit  they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism  and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
— B. C. Forbes
If you have the will to win  you have achieved half your success  if you don't  you have achieved half your failure.
— David V. A. Ambrose
Someone's always saying  "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way  you're as good as dead.
— James Caan
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time  then everything is easy.
— Thomas A. Buckner
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
— C. Malesherbez
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
— Thomas N. Carruther
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!
— George Matthew Adams
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes  more than enthusiasm  I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
— Walter Chrysler
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
— Edwin Way Teale
Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
— Thomas Eakins
To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy  is success in life.
— Walter Pater
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes  another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
— Edward B. Butler
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
— Vauvenargues
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
— Charles Buxton
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
— Sir Edward Appleton
A strong passion for any object will ensure success  for the desire of the end will point out the means.
— William Hazlitt
What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm  miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic  conquering spirit  we get things done.
— Arland Gilbert
If you're not happy every morning when you get up  leave for work  or start to work at home-if you're not enthusiastic about doing that  you're not going to be successful.
— Donald M. Kendall
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
— Christian Bovee
Do it big or stay in bed.
— Larry Kelly
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
— Charles Buxton
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
— William Hazlitt
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity  and he will set fire to the world.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Knowledge is power  but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
— Ivern Ball
Through zeal  knowledge is gotten  through lack of zeal  knowledge is lost.
— Buddha
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
— Anatole France
It is energy  the central element of which is will  that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
— Samuel Smiles
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy.
— Thomas Arnold
You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing  a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
— Federico Fellini
Energy  even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed  will move mountains.
— Hosea Ballou
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
— Benjamin Franklin
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
— Johann von Goethe
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
— Louis Auchincloss
No one grows old by living  only by losing interest in living.
— Marie Beynon Ray
Years wrinkle the face  but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
— Watterson Lowe
He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.
— Latin proverb
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle  but to make them long for it.
— Louis Simpson
Wars may be fought with weapons  but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
— General George S. Patton
Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first  an ideal which takes the imagination by storm  and sec ond  a definite  intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.
— Corita Kent
No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions  new aspirations  new efforts  new vision. Compete with yourself  set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone  he has failed to feed it.
— Anonymous
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
— William Hazlitt
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired  but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven  Wagner  Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
— Ernest Newman
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.
— Henry Chester
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself  it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving  if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.
— David Sarnoff
Vigor is contagious  and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice being excited.
— Bill Foster
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
— Charles Lindbergh
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm  it moves stones  it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
— William McFee
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
— Fred Allen
I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. "In this town it wouldn't do any good " he explained. "I happen to be a chain breather."
— Robert Sylvester
I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
— Henry G. Strauss
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
— Jacques Cousteau
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
All the world's a stage  And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances  And one man in his time plays many parts.
— William Shakespeare
The environment is everything that isn't me.
— Albert Einstein
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
— Buckminster Fuller
For the first time in the history of the world  every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals  from the moment of conception until death.
— Rachel Carson
Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.
— Irv Kupcinet
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
— Barry Commoner
The sun  moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.
— Havelock Ellis
Hurt not the earth  neither the sea  nor the trees.
— Bible
Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.
— Don Marquis
As a moth gnaws a garment  so doth envy consume a man.
— St. Chrysostom
It is better to be envied than pitied.
— Herodotus
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
— Rudyard Kipling
Fourscore and seven years ago  our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation  conceived in liberty  and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
— Abraham Lincoln
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves  but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain  therefore  to treat them as if they were equal.
— James Froude
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal  that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights  that among these are life  liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
— Cicero
To err is human  to forgive divine.
— Alexander Pope
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
— Caroline L. Gascoigne
When every one is in the wrong  every one is in the right.
— La Chaussee
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
— Edward J. Phelps
Error will slip through a crack  while truth will stick in a doorway.
— H. W. Shaw
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day  The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea  The ploughman homeward plods his weary way  And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
— Thomas Gray
One by one the flowers close  Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
— Christina G. Rossetti
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
— Roy L. Smith
I think  what has this day brought me  and what have I given it?
— Henry Moore
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep  I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Each morning sees some task begin  each evening sees it close  Something attempted  something done  has earned a night's repose.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Judge each day not by it's harvest  but by the seeds you plant.
— Anonymous
Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
— Edward Herbert
Put off thy cares with thy clothes  so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor  and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
— Francis Quarles
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.
— Anonymous
The camel  at the close of day  Kneels down upon the sandy plain To have his burden lifted off And rest again. My soul  thou too should to thy knees When daylight draweth to a close  And let thy Master lift the load And grant repose.
— Anonymous
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
— Thomas C. Haliburton
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
— Bible
Don't fight with the pillow  but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
— Edmund Vance Cooke
Shed  as you do your garments  your daily sins  whether of omission or commission  and you will wake a free man  with a new life.
— Sir William Osier
Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Go to bed early  get up early-this is wise.
— Mark Twain
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep  the certain knot of peace  The baiting-place of wit  the balm of woe  The poor man's wealth  the prisoner's release  The indifferent judge between the high and low.
— Sir Philip Sidney
O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head!
— Thomas Hood
Fatigue is the best pillow.
— Benjamin Franklin
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
— Leonardo da Vinci
It is a delicious moment  certainly  that of being well-nestled in bed and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come  not past  the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful  the labor of the day is gone.
— Leigh Hunt
Sleep  Silence's child  sweet father of soft rest  Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings  Indifferent host to shepherds and kings  Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.
— William Drummond
Sleep  that knits up the ravell'd slave of care  The death of each day's life  sore labour's bath  Balm of hurt minds  great nature's second course  Chief nourisher in life's feast.
— William Shakespeare
There is only one thing people like that is good for them  a good night's sleep.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
— Aldous Huxley
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
— John Steinbeck
Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
— Thomas Dekker
Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep  still thank Him that you live to lie awake.
— John Oxenham
Sleep ... peace of the soul  who put-test care to flight.
— Ovid
Now I lay me down to sleep  I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
— Anonymous
There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better  but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.
— L. Thomas Holdcroft
General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.
— Suetonius
Fools look to tomorrow  wise men use tonight.
— Scottish proverb
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm  miracles can happen.
— Arland Gilbert
He who  having lost one ideal  refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler  is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
— Constance Naden
Whenever you fall  pick something up.
— Oswald Avery
I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them  and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
— Connie Mack
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
— Marcus Aurelius
We must never despair  our situation has been compromising before  and it has changed for the better  so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise  we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
— George Washington
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are  but how you deal with incompatibility.
— George Levinger
Noble souls  through dust and heat  rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you  and in the end you are sure to succeed.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
— James E. Sweeney
When the rock is hard  we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough  we get tougher than the job.
— George Cullum
To be happy  drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
— Smiley Blanton
Always take an emergency leisurely.
— Chinese proverb
Keep strong if possible  in any case  keep cool.
— Sir Basil Liddell Hart
Happiness is not the absence of conflict  but the ability to cope with it.
— Anonymous
When something bad happens to me  I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.
— Christie Brinkley
Concern should drive us into action  not into a depression.
— Karen Horney
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
— Ralph W. Sockman
Results? Why  man  I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
— Thomas A. Edison
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
— Anonymous
Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.
— Chinese proverb
Any man can shoot a gun  and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately  but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
— Louis L'Amour
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
— Publilius Syrus
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
— John Cage
What the caterpillar calls a tragedy  the Master calls a butterfly.
— Richard Bach
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes  the greater is their power to harm us.
— Voltaire
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better  not bitter.
— Anonymous
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
— William James
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
— Herbert Benson
No matter what has happened  always behave as if nothing had happened.
— Arnold Bennett
Tears mess up your makeup.
— Julia Child
When things go wrong  don't go with them.
— Anonymous
Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.
— John Telgen
When you make a world tolerable for yourself  you make a world tolerable for others.
— Anais Nin
In adversity  remember to keep an even mind.
— Horace
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever  even if your whole world seems upset.
— Saint Francis de Sales
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest  it seems  is an interest in life  good  bad  or peculiar.
— Grace Paley
We are not troubled by things  but by the opinion which we have of things.
— Epictetus
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is  according to the mode in which one looks at it.
— Oscar Wilde
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
— Honore de Balzac
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
— David Hume
Happiness does not depend on outward things  but on the way we see them.
— Leo Tolstoy
The mind is its own place  and in itself can make a heaven of hell  a hell of heaven.
— John Milton
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
— Stendhal
Riches  like glory or health  have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
— Michel de Montaigne
Losses are comparative  imagination only makes them of any moment.
— Blaise Pascal
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
— Jacopo Sannazaro
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind  confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always  though in the midst of sorrows  and possess all things  though destitute of everything.
— James Freeman Clarke
So long as one does not despair  so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly  things work out fairly well in the end.
— George Moore
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves  but in our attitude towards them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
— Anonymous
If you are distressed by anything external  the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it  and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
— Marcus Aurelius
Little things affect little minds.
— Benjamin Disraeli
No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy  the way it affects his self-image.
— Bonaro Overstreet
There is nothing either good or bad  but thinking makes it so.
— William Shakespeare
Men are not influenced by things  but by their thoughts about things.
— Epictetus
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
— Boethius
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns  or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.
— J. Kenfield Morley
A great wind is blowing  and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
— Catherine the Great
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most  and  the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
— Cathy Lee Crosby
Boys  this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand  good or bad  and don't whine and complain  but play it out. If you're men enough to do that  God will help you and you will come out well.
— Ida Eisenhower
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
— Alberta Flanders
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
— Ellen Glasgow
If you have to be in a soap opera  try not to get the worst role.
— Boy George
Never regret. If it's good  it's wonderful. If it's bad  it's experience.
— Victoria Holt
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
— Florynce Kennedy
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
— G. K. Chesterton
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
— Epictetus
When all that hate energy was focused on me  it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in  it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you  it will kill you.
— Yoko Ono
If you are being run out of town  get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
— Sally Stanford
Experience is not what happens to you  it is what you do with what happens to you.
— Aldous Huxley
Whatever evil befalls us  we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion  from one bitter root  to raise perhaps many flowers.
— Leigh Hunt
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage  and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
— Thomas Fuller
Losses are comparative  only imagination makes them of any moment.
— Blaise Pascal
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life  not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
— John Homer Miller
When fate hands you a lemon  make lemonade.
— Dale Carnegie
To a brave man  good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
— Saint Catherine of Siena
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
— Phyllis Bottome
Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
— Anonymous
One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
— Bernie S. Siegel
Never despair  but if you do  work on in despair.
— Edmund Burke
Groan and forget it.
— Jessamyn West
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
— E. M. Cioran
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.
— William Bolitho
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
— Tom O'Connor
Find the grain of truth in criticism -  chew it and swallow it.
— Don Sutton
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand  but you play it.
— James Brady
Boys  this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand  good or bad  and don't whine and complain  but play it out. If you're men enough to do that  God will help and you will come out well.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower's mother
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination  the way you play it is free will.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Life consists not in holding good cards  but in playing those you do hold well.
— Josh Billings
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
— H. T. Leslie
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table  luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
— John Hay
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
— Teresa of Avila
Humor is an antidote to isolation.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
— Lyn Karol
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
— Ellie Katz