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Not many people ask me out.
— Marina Sirtis
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete  consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point  in the face of all the propaganda  is how few Americans actually live this way.
— Louise Kapp Howe
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are  we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
— Helen Keller
I murmured because I had no shoes  until I met man who had no feet.
— Persian proverb
Comparison  more than reality  makes men happy or wretched.
— Thomas Fuller
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
— George Bernard Shaw
If you compare yourself with others  you may become vain or bitter  for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
— Max Ehrmann
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
— The Condorcet
If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy  but we want to be happier than other people  which is almost always difficult  since we think them happier than they are.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
— Thomas Fuller
Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
— Thornton Wilder
To think well of every other man's condition  and to dislike our own  is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
— Robert Burton
Other people's eggs have two yolks.
— Hungarian proverb
No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought  no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.
— Irving Thalberg
Envy is an insult to oneself.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
— Angus Wilson
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
— George Eliot
Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
— German proverb
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
— Erica Jong
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
— Paul Eldridges
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
— B. C. Forbes
Jealousy  that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
— Havelock Ellis
There is no greater glory than love  nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
— Lope de Vega
As a moth gnaws a garment  so doth envy consume a man.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Envy is the most stupid of vices  for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
— Honore de Balzac
The jealous are troublesome to others  but torment to themselves.
— William Penn
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
— John Churton Collins
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape  it would be the shape of a boomerang.
— Charley Reese
Envy is a kind of praise.
— John Gay
Envy  among other ingredients  has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
— William Hazlitt
Envy comes from people's ignorance of  or lack of belief in  their own gifts.
— Jean Vanier
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is  a dissatisfaction with self.
— Joan Didion
If envy were a fever  all the world would be ill.
— Danish proverb
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
— Margaret Mead
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
— Baltasar Gracian
You can't be envious and happy at the same time.
— Frank Tyger
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
— Maeve Binchy
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
— Erma Bombeck
Friendship  which is of its nature a delicate thing  fastidious  slow of growth  is easily checked  will hesitate  demur  recoil where love  good old blustering love  bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.
— Colette
It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.
— Marcelene Cox
Silence sweeter is than speech.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves  whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
— George Eliot
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
— Fran Lebowitz
Listening is not merely not talking  though even that is beyond most of our powers  it means taking a vigorous  human interest in what is being told us.
— Alice Duer Miller
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
— Therese of Lisieux
If you wish to fear nothing  consider that everything is to be feared.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.
— Roseanne Barr
How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart  slash off its spectral head  take it by its spectral throat?
— Joseph Conrad
The brave man is not he who feels no fear  For that were stupid and irrational  But he  whose noble soul its fear subdues  And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
— Joanna Baillie
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves  to like themselves.
— Bonaro Overstreet
When fear seizes  change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
— Jean Craighead George
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
— Zora Neale Hurston
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
— Edward R. Murrow
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger  but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
— Mark Rutherford
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear  the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw  because it comes from within me.
— Federico Fellini
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
— James F. Bell
A cheerful frame of mind  reinforced by relaxation  which in itself banishes fatigue  is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
— George Matthew Adams
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
— Jean de la Fontaine
Why should a man fear  since chance is all in all for him  and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can  unthinking.
— Sophocles
I sought the Lord  and He heard me  and delivered me from all my fears.
— Bible
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.
— Epicurus
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
— Allen Klein
Humor acts to relieve fear.
— Dr. William F. Fry
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs  it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
— Jean Kerr
Fear is a kind of bell  or gong  which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
— Hannah Arendt
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt  it means you never take any chances.
— Julia Sorel
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Fear drives you and makes you better.
— Donna E. Shalala
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity  and the herald of all revolutions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to feel anything  you need strength.
— Anna Maria Ortese
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
— Aeschylus
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
— Thomas Fuller
Fear is a fine spur.
— Irish proverb
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of  and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness  because illness contains information  our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
— Marilyn Ferguson
Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.
— Richard Halverson
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
— John Witherspoon
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed  and often makes a better fighter of him.
— Louis L'Amour
Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them  when I feel at ease  that I get worried.
— Mike Nichols
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
— Henry H. Tweedy
Fear is the needle that pierces us  that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
— James Hastings
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
— Elbert Hubbard
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
— Henry Link
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind  upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
— John Locke
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love  as if to keep it warm.
— William Wordsworth
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
— Anonymous
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
— Samuel Butler
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
— Anonymous
Fear is the main source of superstition  and one of the main sources of cruelty.
— Bertrand A. Russell
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
— Sophie Tunnell
Fear is the start of wisdom.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
— Arnold Glasow
Fear is the highest fence.
— Dudley Nichols
Fear is uncertainty.
— Eric Hoffer
Fear is sand in the machinery of life.
— E. Stanley Jones
I am not afraid. ... I was born to do this.
— Joan of Arc
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
— Oprah Winfrey
Fear betrays unworthy souls.
— Virgil
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
— Mary Bateson
Fear could never make a virtue.
— Voltaire
Considering how dangerous everything is  nothing is really very frightening.
— Gertrude Stein
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark  he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
— Sa'di
Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem  the bull  is bigger than all other problems. Of course  I have fear  but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I have taken on in front of all those people-not fear of the bull.
— Cristina Sanchez
Fear is stronger than arms.
— Aeschylus
Fear is sharp-sighted  and can see things under ground  and much more in the skies.
— Miguel de Cervantes
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
— Phillip Mann
Better a fearful end than fear without end.
— Anonymous
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach  it is philosophy without fear.
— Charles Peguy
There is a time to take counsel of your fears  and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
— General George S. Patton
I  a stranger and afraid  in a world I never made.
— A. E. Housman
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness  the weight of that silence will choke us.
— Audre Lorde
"But" is a fence over which few leap.
— German proverb
There are always two voices sounding in our ears-the voice of fear and the voice of confidence. One is the clamor of the senses  the other is the whispering of the higher self.
— Charles B. Newcomb
Fear nothing  for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons  all sins into experience.
— Katherine Tingley
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
— Thomas Fuller
Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.
— Sandy Koufax
Fear has a large shadow  but he himself is small.
— J. Ruth Gendler
Stripped of all their masquerades  the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness  rejection  inferiority  unmanageable anger  illness and death.
— Joshua L. Liebman
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
— John Mellencamp
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.
— Dr. Robert Jarvik
Those who love to be feared  fear to be loved. Some fear them  but they fear everyone.
— Jean Pierre Camus
There is a courageous wisdom  there is also a false reptile prudence  the result  not of caution  but of fear.
— Edmund Burke
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
— Bertrand Russell
Who is more foolish  the child afraid of the dark  or the man afraid of the light?
— Maurice Freehill
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown  the complex  the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
— H. L. Mencken
Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.
— Jeraldine Saunders
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
— Nancy Astor
Fear can be headier than whiskey  once man has acquired a taste for it.
— Donald Dowes
The first and great commandment is  don't let them scare you.
— Elmer Davis
You got a harem of seventy girls  you don't get to know any of them very well.
— Billy Rose
It is preoccupation with possession  more than anything else  that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
— Bertrand Russell
Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)
— Spanish proverb
Broad acres are a patent of nobility  and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface  it is 4000 miles deep  and that is a very handsome property.
— Charles Dudley Warner
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
— Le Roi Jones
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.
— Collis P. Huntington
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
— Fred Allen
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
— William James
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The want of a thing is perplexing enough  but the possession of it is intolerable.
— John Vanbrugh
Our life on earth is  and ought to be  material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly  they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
— E. M. Forster
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
— Anonymous
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
— George Herbert
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.
— Marie Elizabeth Kane
People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.
— Wyndham Lewis
It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.
— William Butler
The world's mine oyster  Which I with sword will open.
— William Shakespeare
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment  woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
— Anonymous
Pain and pleasure  like light and darkness  succeed each other.
— Laurence Sterne
Nothing begins  and nothing ends  That is not paid with moan  For we are born in others' pain  And perish in our own.
— Francis Thompson
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
— Syrus
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
— Lord Beaverbrook
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose  because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
— Henri Matisse
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
— Edward Hopper
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night  a flower  everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
— Pablo Picasso
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
— Winston Churchill
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
— Jean Baptiste Corot
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees  but what he feels  what he tells himself about what he has seen.
— Pablo Picasso
Painting  n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is  is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
— James McNeill Whistler
I paint objects as I think them  not as I see them.
— Pablo Picasso
The idea is in my head  to put it down is nothing.
— Milton Avery
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso  those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
— John White
I dream my painting  and then I paint my dream.
— Vincent van Gogh
For me  painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night  a strangled laugh.
— Georges Rouault
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
— William Hazlitt
I paint from the top down. First the sky  then the mountains  then the hills  then the houses  then the cattle  and then the people.
— Grandma Moses
A good painter is to paint two main things  namely men and the working of man's mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject  rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
— Salvador Dali
All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.
— Marc Chagall
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
— John Ruskin
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
— Pablo Picasso
Sir  when their backsides look good enough to slap  there's nothing more to do.
— Peter Paul Rubens
A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
— Auguste Renoir
Some day they will know what I mean.
— Tom Thomson
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
— John Ciardi
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am  then I won't see it.
— Ivan Eyre
If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!
— Honore de Balzac
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I mix them with my brains  sir.
— John Opie
A book of Verses underneath the Bough  A Jug of Wine  a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness -  Oh  Wilderness were Paradise enow!
— Omar Khayyam
In this fool's paradise  he drank delight
— George Grabbe
There is no friendship  no love  like that of the parent for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
— Clarence S. Darrow
Next to God  thy parents.
— William Penn
A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy  and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.
— Philip Roth
A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
— Spanish proverb
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
— Moorish proverb
Parentage is a very important profession  but no test of fitness  for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
— George Bernard Shaw
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older  while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
— Christopher Lasch
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
— Anthony Powell
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
— Alvin Toffler
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
— George Bernard Shaw
Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life  so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out  it takes much more courage to listen.
— John D. Rockefeller III
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
— Robert Frost
I demand for the unmarried mother  as a sacred channel of life  the same reverence and respect as for the married mother  for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass  our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
— Ben Lindsey
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
— German proverb
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
— Robert Burton
When one has not had a good father  one must create one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
— Evelyn Waugh
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
To bring up a child in the way he should go  travel that way yourself once in a while.
— Josh Billings
Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.
— Anonymous
To become a father is not hard  to be a father is  however.
— Wilhelm Busch
Our sons  who so easily recognize our errors  and rightly denounce them  will have to confess their own  later on  and they may be as bad as ours  perhaps worse.
— Bruce Hutchison
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
— Honore de Balzac
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
— Jewish proverb
A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner  and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.
— Anonymous
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
— Will Durant
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal  with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
— John Ciardi
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
— Bertrand Russell
Don't limit a child to your own learning  for he was born in another time.
— Rabbinical saying
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
— Spanish proverb
No matter how old a mother is  she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
Whatever you would have your children become  strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
— Lydia H. Sigourney
Train a child in the way he should go  and when he is old he will not depart from it.
— Bible
I must study politics and war  that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy  geography  natural history  and naval architecture  navigation  commerce  and agriculture  in order to give their children a right to study painting  poetry  music  architecture  statuary  tapestry and porcelain.
— John Adams
The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.
— Jean Kerr
The best way to bring up some children is short.
— Anthony J. Pettito
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and  in a sense  tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side  yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
— Erich Fromm
Who doesn't desire his father's death?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children.
— Sam Levenson
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
— Peter Ustinov
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
— John Holt
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
— Eric Hoffer
Oh has thou forgotten how soon we must sever? Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever  Oh why art thou silent  thou voice of my heart?
— Julia Crawford
The sweetest flower that blows  I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.
— Frederick Peterson
Good-night  good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow  That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
— William Shakespeare
Political parties serve to keep each other in check  one keenly watching the other.
— Henry Clay
I always voted at my party's call  And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
— W. S. Gilbert
He serves his party best who serves the country best.
— R. B. Hayes
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
— Thomas Jefferson
Party honesty is party expediency.
— Anonymous
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.
— Charles E. Weller
What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water - they are good servants  but bad masters.
— Roger I'Estrange
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The ruling passion  be it what it will  the ruling passion conquers reason still.
— Alexander Pope
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
— Georges Clemenceau
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe  magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
— Albert Camus
He disliked emotion  not because he felt lightly  but because he felt deeply.
— John Buchan
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good  soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
— Robert Keith Leavitt
If we resist our passions  it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.
— La Rochefoucauld
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
— Oscar Wilde
The world is a comedy to those who think  a tragedy to those who feel.
— Horace Walpole
Follow your heart  and you perish.
— Margaret Laurence
The only people for me are the mad ones  the ones who are mad to live  mad to talk  mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing  but burn  burn  burn  like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
— Jack Kerouac
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
— George Santayana
Disappointments should be cremated  not embalmed.
— Henry S. Haskins
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
— Maria Edgeworth
Hands have not tears to flow.
— Dylan Thomas
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Where the mind is past hope  the heart is past shame.
— John Lyly
Nobody has ever measured  even poets  how much a heart can hold.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
The logic of the heart is absurd.
— Julie de Lespinasse
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
— George W. Russell
The same heart beats in every human breast.
— Matthew Arnold
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
— Blaise Pascal
Man becomes man only by the intelligence  but he is man only by the heart.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
From the solitude of the wood  (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
— Loren Eiseley
Seeing's believing  but feeling's the truth.
— Thomas Fuller
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
— Djuna Barnes
The great art of life is sensation  to feel that we exist  even in pain.
— Lord Byron
Weak people cannot be sincere.
— La Rochefoucauld
Love is of all passions the strongest  for it attacks simultaneously the head  the heart and the senses.
— Lao-Tzu
Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.
— Ally McBeal
In my sex fantasy  nobody ever loves me for my mind.
— Nora Ephron
The human race has been set up. Someone  somewhere  is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently  women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
— Billy Connolly
You call it madness  but I call it love.
— Don Byas
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
— Ice T
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
— Lynda Barry
Love is not altogether a delirium  yet it has many points in common therewith.
— Thomas Carlyle
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
— Percy Bysshe Shelly
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
— H. L. Mencken
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
— Stephen Leacock
She walks in beauty  Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies  And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
— Lord Byron
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Anyone can be passionate  but it takes real lovers to be silly.
— Rose Franken
If love is blind  why is lingerie so popular?
— Anonymous
It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.
— Patrick Campbell
I need sex for a clear complexion  but I'd rather do it for love.
— Joan Crawford
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry  I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh  well  I think of my sex life.
— Glenda Jackson
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
— Brendan Behan
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
— Thomas Hardy
Happy are those lovers who  when their senses require rest  can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes  and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking  the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
— Giacomo Casanova
If we seek the pleasures of love  passion should be occasional  and common sense continual.
— Robertson Davies
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain  causes eyes to sparkle  cheeks to glow  blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
— Anonymous
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
— Harlan Ellison
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
— Billy Crystal
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
— Woody Allen
I have loved to the point of madness  that which is called madness  that which to me  is the only sensible way to love.
— Francoise Sagan
My wife is a sex object -  every time I ask for sex  she objects.
— Les Dawson
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed  half the problems of bed are solved.
— Peter Ustinov
I prefer love over sex.
— Enrique Iglesias
I know nothing about sex  because I was always married.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion  history  romance and art would be useless.
— Honore de Balzac
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
— Thomas Hobbes
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught  which else free will Would not admit.
— John Milton
The ruling passion  be it what it will  The ruling passion conquers reason still.
— Alexander Pope
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
— William Shakespeare
The present contains nothing more than the past  and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
— Henri Bergson
Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.
— Lord Byron
0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
— Henry Arthur Jones
Weep no more  lady  weep no more  Thy sorrow is in vain  For violets plucked  the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
— Thomas Percy
1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
— Carl Sandburg
The best prophet of the future is the past.
— John Sherman
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
— Jean de la Fontaine
Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.
— Old proverb
Patience  that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
— Thomas Hardy
The slow rhythm of waiting.
— Adrian Cowell
What can't be cured  must be endured.
— Old saying
Have patience with all things  but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections  but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
— St. Francis de Sales
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
— Elliot Paul
Life on the farm is a school of patience  you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
— Henri Fournier Alain
There is nothing so bitter  that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
— Seneca
Patience has its limits. Take it too far  and it's cowardice.
— George Jackson
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
— Chinese proverb
People in a hurry cannot think  cannot grow  nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
— Eric Hoffer
I am as poor as Job  my lord  but not so patient.
— William Shakespeare
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
— Dutch proverb
The more haste  the less speed.
— John Heywood
There are no short cuts to Heaven  only the ordinary way of ordinary things.
— Vincent McNabb
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on  hold fast  hold out. Patience is genius.
— Comte de Buffon
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
— Jean de la Fontaine
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
— William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
— William Shakespeare
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
— James Joyce
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined  as once with women  to a single country.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able  vicariously  to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat  what's more  with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
— Aldous Huxley
Patriotism is not short  frenzied outbursts of emotion  but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.
— Adlai Stevenson
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
— Ernest Renan
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong  which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
— Mark Twain
The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.
— Old saying
God made the ocean  but the Dutch made Holland.
— Dutch proverb
The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.
— Mark Twain
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
— Rolf Hochhuth
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men  but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is Ontario patriotism  Quebec patriotism  or Western patriotism  each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others  but there is no Canadian patriotism  and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.
— Henri Bourassa
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
— Marianne Moore
The mind supplies the idea of a nation  but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
— Andre Malraux
My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce  who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.
— Karl Beveridge
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.
— Frank Underhill
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat  clean  quite solvent business.
— William Faulkner
Ireland is a fatal disease  fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.
— George Moore
Swim or sink  live or die  survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
— John Adams
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations  may she always be in the right  but our country  right or wrong.
— Stephen Decatur
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
— W. C. Brann
1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
— Edith Cavell
Den I wish I was in Dixie  Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.
— Daniel D. Emmett
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
— Nathan Hale
I am not a Virginian but an American.
— Patrick Henry
Breathes there the man with soul so dead  Who never to himself hath said  This is my own  my native land!
— Walter Scott
Millions for defense  but not one cent for tribute.
— Charles C. Pinckney
It takes time  love  and support to find peace with the restless one.
— Deidra Sarault
The only peace  the only security  is in fulfillment.
— Henry Miller
In truth  to attain to interior peace  one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
— Swami Brahmananda
When at night you cannot sleep  talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
— Anonymous
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves  it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you do not find peace in yourself  you will never find it anywhere else.
— Paula A. Bendry
If there is to be any peace it will come through being  not having.
— Henry Miller
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
— Marcus Aurelius
Peace does not dwell in outward things  but within the soul  we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain  if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to  not in an exemption from  suffering.
— Francois de Fenelon
In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety ... we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
— Jerry W. McCant
Peace is not the absence of conflict  but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
— Anonymous
This is a sane  wholesome  practical  working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God  second  that God himself takes on the care of that man  and third  that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.
— George Macdonald
When we believe that God is Father  we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better  but we will not resent life any longer.
— William Barclay
The peace is won by accompanying God into the battle.
— Eivind Josef Berggrav
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding  I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
— Helen Keller
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
— Bernie S. Siegel
She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.
— Daphne du Maurier
There is no such thing as inner peace  there is only nervousness and death.
— Fran Lebowitz
When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.
— Spanish proverb
Before the war  and especially before the Boer War  it was summer all the year round.
— George Orwell
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
— George Herbert
Peace is a virtual  mute  sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
— Paul Valery
Peace is not an absence of war  it is a virtue  a state of mind  a disposition for benevolence  confidence  justice.
— Benedict Spinoza
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
— Daniel Berrigan
Once you hear the details of victory  it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace  but a canting impotence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where they make a desert  they call it peace.
— Tacitus
That they may have a little peace  even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
— William Feather
Peace: in international affairs  a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
— Ambrose Bierce
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
— Dorothy Parker
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
— Colette
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
— Albert Schweitzer
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
— Jane Pauley
It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.
— Cynthia E. Varnado
Dogs come when they're called  cats take a message and get back to you.
— Mary Bly
Cats are angels with fur.
— Sark
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.
— Gene Hill
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
— Bern Williams
Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
— Ann Landers
Dogs are not our whole life  but they make our lives whole.
— Roger Caras
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
— Michael Rosen
A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
— Josh Billings
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him  and not only will he not scold you  but he will make a fool of himself  too.
— Samuel Butler
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
— Rita Rudner
I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.
— James Thurber
A dog wags its tail with its heart.
— Martin Buxbaum
Dogs laugh  but they laugh with their tails.
— Max Eastman
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
— Josh Billings
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own  having a dog makes you rich.
— Louis Sabin
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.
— Leo the Great
Peace is a daily  a weekly  a monthly process  gradually changing opinions  slowly eroding old barriers  quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace  the pursuit must go on.
— John F. Kennedy
Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.
— Gerald Jampolsky
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
— Norman Cousins
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we have no peace  it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
— Mother Teresa
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things  man will not find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
It isn't enough to talk about peace  one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it  one must work at it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Before it's too late  and time is running out  let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.
— Richard Cardinal Cushing
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint  and he understands ours  then we can sit down and work out our differences.
— Harry S. Truman
It takes two to make peace.
— John F. Kennedy
We merely want to live in peace with all the world  to trade with them  to commune with them  to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours  so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
— Robert Persig
If we have not peace within ourselves  it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
— La Rochefoucauld
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
— The Buddha
Peace  like charity  begins at home.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Positive thoughts (joy  happiness  fulfillment  achievement  worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm  calm  well-being  ease  energy  love). -  Negative thoughts (judgment  unworthiness  mistrust  resentment  fear) produce negative results (tension  anxiety  alienation  anger  fatigue).
— Peter McWilliams
Could we change our attitude  we should not only see life differently  but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
— Katherine Mansfield
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
— Ernest Holmes
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities 
— Orison S. Marden
It is the mind that maketh good of ill  that maketh wretch or happy  rich or poor.
— Edmund Spenser
Most of us can  as we choose  make of this world either a palace or a prison.
— Sir John Lubbock
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
— Mary Dunbar
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. ... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting  what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? . . . You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
— Thomas Dreier
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we take it  what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.
— Joseph Newton
Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud  and  when you have found it  continue to look at it  rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.
— A. A. Willitts
There is very little difference in people  but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
— W. Clement Stone
It is not the situation. It is your reaction to the situation.
— Bob Conklin
There are two big forces at work  external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes  earthquakes  floods  disasters  illness  and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
— Leo Buscaglia
If you will call your troubles experiences  and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you  you will grow vigorous and happy  however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
— John Miller
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
— Bernie Siegel
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
— William James
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
— J. M. Barrie
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.
— May Sarton
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
— M. Scott Peck
When somebody is angry with us  we draw a halo around his or her head  in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well  we don't know! We know  though  that when we draw a halo around a person  suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.
— John Lennon
Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale  yellow balloon  letting it go  watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.
— Barbara Markoff
Whenever something good happens  write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
— Peter McWilliams