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I have been gathering quotes since I was 17 years old. The result is a LARGE collection of famous and not so famous sayings, proverbs, aphorisms - basically, a string of "pearls of wisdom"!
I always try to include the author of a quote. However, there are some that are unknown to me. If you notice any glaring errors in accuracy, my apologies! If you have any quotes to share, let me know! E-mail me at room20ctk@hotmail.com.
Each page includes quotes from a different journal -thus the weird titles. :) So far, there are only a few from each journal, so be sure to come back often - I'll be adding to this site regularly!
NOW ~ ON TO THE QUOTES!
JOURNAL #1 ~ CHALKBOARD
Light tomorrow with today. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you teach your child, you teach your child's child. - from the Talmud
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Kimberly Johnson
Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it. - Bern Williams
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare
Never fear shadows. They mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. - Ruth E. Renkel
We are all pilgrims on the same journey ~ but some pilgrims have better road maps. - Nelson DeMille
Education is the vaccine for violence. - Edward James Olmos
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. - H. Jackson Brown
One flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. - Kurt Vonnegut
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. - Japanese Proverb
The trouble with talking too fast is that you may say something you haven't thought of yet. - Ann Landers
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. - Henry Boyle
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - C. Archie Danielson
One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis A. Peer
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. - Amy Tan
Learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. - Carl Rowan
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. - Doug Floyd
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. - Kathleen A. Sutton
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. - Leonardo da Vinci
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. - Robert C. Savage
Life is. I am. Anything might happen. - Robert Fulghum
You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else's. - Unknown
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. - Robert Frost
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward
Be a fountain, not a drain. - Rex Hudler
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark
I live not in myself, but I become a portion of that around me. - Lord Byron
There are so many colors in the rainbow, so many colors in the morning sun, so many colors in the flowers, and I see every one. - Harry Chapin
Oh, Earth, you're too wonderful for anyone to realize you! - Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
A thick skin is a gift from God. - Konrad Adenauer
The truth which makes men free is often the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Agar
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Henry Asquith
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. - W. H. Auden
God gave us a memory so that we might have roses in December. - Sir J. M. Barrie
Some people are molded by their aspirations, others by their hostilities. - Elizabeth Bowen
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. - F. H. Bradley
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. - John Buchanan
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell
There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G. K. Chesterton
Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. - Count Galeazzo Ciano
Better to do for yourself and have no public than to do for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one. - Dame Agatha Christie
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's awfully hard to get it back in. - H. R. Haldeman
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. - Eric Hoffer
One should read a little poetry sometimes. Ignorance cramps conversation. - Anthony Pope
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. - Ecclesiastes 3:1
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. - Elbert Hubbard
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. - Aldous Huxley
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. - Ursula K. LeGuin
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. - Claude Pepper
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly, may light upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A refuge never grows from a chin in a hand and a thoughtful pose - gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. - Emily Saliers
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk. -Doug Larson
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. - Chinese Proverb
Love bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. - 1 Corinthians 13
If butterflies wait to be told to try their wings, they might never fly. - Miriam Woolfolk
We see the world from where we are standing. - Bernard Lanargen
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, that nothing with God can be accidental. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We must welcome the future, remembering that it soon will be the past; and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible. - George Santayana
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance! - Unknown
There never was in the world two opinions alike, nor two hairs or two grains of sand; the most universal quality is diversity. - Montaigne
Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts. - St. John Chrysostom
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. - Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee (Inherit the Wind)
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision. - Emily Saliers
The whole movement of existance is from the material to the spiritual. It may be slow, but it is inevitable. - Mindy Joi Yatsko
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. - Arthur Koestler
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe he inhabits. - Bishop Fulton Sheen
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all in how you look at it. - J. Kenfield Morley
If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham
When the heart weeps for what is lost, the soul rejoices in what is left. - Sufi Indian Saying
Be sure when you step, step with great care and great tact, and remember that life's a great balancing act. - Theodore Suess Geisel (Dr. Suess)
Do not confuse an open mind with a vacant one. - Unknown
The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings. - Stephen King
I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. - Unknown
No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand. - Emily Saliers
It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Adlai Stevenson
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. - Norman Douglas
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may only be the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest
If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you didn't want. - Gil Atkinson
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. - Samuel Gridley Howe
It's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else. - Gerard McHugh
The prize is always worth the rocky ride. - Emily Saliers
We are happy when we are growing. - William Butler Yeats
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's a dance you learn as you go; sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow. - John Michael Montgomery
The quality of mercy is not strain'd ~ it droppeth as the gentle rain upon the place beneath. It is twice blest ~ it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. - William Shakespeare
To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -Duke Ellington
Nothing is a waste that makes a memory. - Ned Rorem
We must love while these moments are still called today. - Emily Saliers
You are always on your way to a miracle. -SARK
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back only the reflection of each of us. Frown at it, and it in turn will look sourly upon you; laugh with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion. - William M. Thackeray
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I keep six honest serving men
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
- Rudyard Kipling
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore
When peace is broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley
Where happiness fails, existence is a sad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
Man is the only animal that blushes ~ or needs to. - Mark Twain
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
'Twixt the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll; The optimist sees the donut, but the pessimist sees the hole. - McLandburgh Wilson
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana
In dreams begins responsibility. - William Butler Yeats
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Burle
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. - Unknown
A man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese Proverb
Old friends are like old sneakers ~ always comfortable. - Lindsay, age 12
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
You don't get there because ~ you get there in spite of. - Janet Collins
This thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. - Helen Keller
As long as we are both here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than to divide it. - Alice Walker
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson
The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli
Imagination is stronger than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. - Dante Alighieri
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. - Michalangelo Buonarotti
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. - Emily P. Bissell
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
Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage. - Naomi Littlebear
Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. - Confucius
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau
Know thyself. - Socrates
The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. - Zimbabwe Saying
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one. - Sir Alec Guinness
The future belongs to those who prepare for it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who KNOWS you, and still likes you. - Unknown
If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place. - John Audobon
Nothing in life is to be feared ~ it is only to be understood. - Marie Curie
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should. - Max Ehrmann (from Desiderata)
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. - Will Rogers
A man who has friends must show himself friendly. - Proverbs 18:24
If one does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
We are not only our brother's keeper; in countless large and small ways, we are our brother's maker. - Bonaro Overstreet
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint Exupery (from The Little Prince)
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. - Aristotle
Sometimes the most loving answer is NO. - Leslie, age 12
There are two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. - Hodding Carter
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. - Robert Fulghum
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky; it slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy. - Kansas (Dust in the Wind)
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking. - Jerry Seinfeld
The same man steps into rivers different, and again different waters flow. - Heraclitus
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Choose to chance the rapids, and dare to dance the tides. - Garth Brooks
Manners are the manifestation of class. - Unknown
There is no place to hide a sin without the conscience looking in. - Anonymous
It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow. - Henry David Thoreau
Money is a fine servant, but a poor master. - P. T. Barnum
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. - Charles F. Kettering
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert
Be like a postage stamp ~ stick to one thing until you get there. - Josh Billings
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb every rung, and may you stay forever young. - Bob Dylan
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. - Basho
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything ~
That's how the light gets in.
- Unknown
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. - Chinese Proverb
You cannot change the winds, but you can adjust your sails. - Unknown
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. - Spanish Proverb
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Chinese Proverb
Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth. - G. Campbell
A person's self-concept is the core of his personality. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. - Leonardo da Vinci
Always behave like a duck ~ keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath. - Jacob Braude
There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard
A miracle happens when the light of understanding shines upon a pupil's mind, and all things are changed. - Annie Sullivan
Ability is of little account without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Just because something is common sense doesn't mean it's common practice. - Will Rogers
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The persuasion of a friend ~ whether for good or for bad ~ is a strong thing. - Homer
Civility is not a sign of weakness. - John F. Kennedy
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. - Chamfort
Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us. - David Riesman
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable. - Moliere
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what is at hand. - Euripides
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. - Eldridge Cleaver
If you do not raise your eyes, you will think that you are the highest point. - Antonio Porchia
I think, therefore I am. - Rene Descartes
Be not afraid of growing, be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; do so in ordinary situations. - Jean Paul Richter
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. - Edgar Watson Howe
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good example builds with both. - Francis Bacon
You may hurt others by talking about them, but you may do more damage to yourself. - Claude Williams
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen
I always have a choice, and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. - Judith A. Knowlton
When a person is a stranger to himself, he is estranged from others too. - Anne Morrow Lindburgh
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. - Lord Chesterfield
Everyone must row with the oars he has. - English Proverb
A wise man changes his mind; a fool never will. - Spanish Proverb
It's never too late ~ in fiction or in life ~ to revise. - Nancy Thayer
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. - Unknown
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb.
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't any better than violets. - Edna Ferber
The best mirror is an old friend. - German Proverb
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The loftiest towers rise from the ground. - Chinese Proverb
There are some things you learn in a calm ~ and some in a storm. - James Cortier
You do not really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. - Icelandic Proverb
The liar is not believed even when he tells the truth. - Yiddish Proverb
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. - Ethiopian Proverb
You may go where you wish, but you cannot escape yourself. - Norwegian Proverb
He who is ashamed to ask is ashamed of learning. - Danish Proverb
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is standing up and taking action. - Al Batt
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . .until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. - Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)
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