C. S. Lewis

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
- C. S. Lewis

George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

Frederic Bastiat

Let us note that man is made in such a way that he seeks pleasure and shuns pain. From this source, I agree, come all the evils of society: war, slavery, monopoly, privilege; but from this source also come all the good things of life, since the satisfaction of wants and the avoidance of suffering are the motives of human action.
- Frederic Bastiat

Douglas Adams

"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of."
- Douglas Adams

Victor Hugo

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
- Victor Hugo

David Herbert Lawrence

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
- David Herbert Lawrence

Proverb

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
- Proverb

William Shakespeare

Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.
- William Shakespeare

Peggy Noonan

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
- Peggy Noonan

Thomas Edison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
- Thomas Edison

Omar Khayyam

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
- Omar Khayyam

Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for.
- Epicurus

Anonymous

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
- Anonymous

Franz Kafka

“Paths are made by walking.”
- Franz Kafka

Plutarch

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
- Plutarch

John Ruskin

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
- John Ruskin

Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Elinor Goulding Smith

It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money. - Elinor Goulding Smith

Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine

Tom Stoppard

“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”- Tom Stoppard (1937)

EM Forster

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art, men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- EM Forster

Jock Falkson

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don't care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.- Jock Falkson

P. G. Wodehouse

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
- P. G. Wodehouse

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

George Bernard Shaw

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
- George Bernard Shaw

Jim Rohn

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
- Jim Rohn

Sean O'Casey

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
- Sean O'Casey

Cyril Connolly

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Cyril Connolly

Adam Smith

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
- Adam Smith

Alexander Maclaren

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
- Alexander Maclaren

Mark Twain

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.
- Mark Twain