Quotes to inspire and reflect

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Exiles feed on hope.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

There is danger from all men.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. Geoffrey F.

One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. Geoffrey F.

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. Geoffrey F.

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask p Geoffrey F.

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. Geoffrey F.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.