Category: Life Quotes
Quick Quote about Home
“A home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to.” – John Ed Pierce
Miracles Quotes
– “A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” – William Hazlitt
– “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” – Patricia Neal
– “After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
– “Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – and miracles began to happen.” – David Wilkerson
– “America – It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.” – Tom Wolfe
– “And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.” – Elias Hicks
– “Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.” – David Ben-Gurion
– “As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.” – George Whitefield
– “Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.” – Henry Miller
– “Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.” – Lionel Blue
– “Don’t believe in miracles – depend on them.” – Laurence J. Peter
– “Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.” – Edwin Louis Cole
– “Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
– “For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
– “God continues to work miracles in my life.” – Willie Aames
– “Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you’ve never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there’s no time.” – Patricia Richardson
– “Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.” – Samuel Smiles
– “How quickly we forget God’s great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.” – David Wilkerson
– “I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.” – Benny Hinn
– “I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.” – Corazon Aquino
– “The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.” – G.K. Chesterton
Drugs Quotes
– “They say drugs aren’t the answer, but really, what is the question?” – Janet Fitch
– “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.” – Salvador Dali
– “All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.” – Thomas Szasz
– “Don’t do drugs because if you do drugs you’ll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.” – John Hardwick
– “Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.” – P.J. O’Rourke
– “If God dropped acid, would he see people?” – Steven Wright
– “I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.” – Unknown
– “Avoid all needle drugs – the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.” – Abbie Hoffman
– “Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.” – Lily Tomlin
– “Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they’re the scenic route.” – Unknown
Respect Quotes
– “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” – Marilyn Monroe
– “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
– “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” – Maya Angelou
– “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” – Albert Einstein
– “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln
– “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill
– “The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” – Winston Churchill
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” – Winston Churchill
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” – Mark Twain
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C. S. Lewis
– “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” – Benjamin Franklin
– “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi
– “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
– “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
– “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon
Courage Quotes
– “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
– “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
– “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
– “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
– “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson
– “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
– “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan
– “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan
– “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln
– “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
– “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
– “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
– “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
– “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain
– “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden
– “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare
– “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis
– “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
– “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy
March Quotes
– “Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.” – Rick Renzi
– “Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.” – Phyllis Schlafly
– “By March ’87 we’re down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we’re down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.” – Eddie Campbell
– “Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.” – Robert A. Heinlein
– “Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.” – Henry Morton Stanley
– “Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.” – Zhu Rongji
– “Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” – Thomas Carlyle
– “Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.” – Lyman Abbott
– “Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.” – Joshua Chamberlain
– “For better or worse, I’ve always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I’m fabulous!” – Michael Musto
– “For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn’t rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.” – Juan Cole
– “For me the march was a labor – a labor of love – but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn’t standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.” – Andre Braugher
– “For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.” – Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
– “From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.” – Scott Hamilton
– “Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.” – Christian Lous Lange
– “Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.” – John Hannah
– “Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.” – Billy Joel
– “I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.” – James Herriot
– “I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.” – George Armstrong Custer
Quotes about Women
– “Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.” – Bill Maher
– “A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.” – Carrie Snow
– “You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.” – Cindy Crawford
– “Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.” – Laurence J. Peter
– “The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.” – Unknown
– “A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.” – Arnold Haultain
– “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton
– “Women are always beautiful.” – Ville Valo
– “The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.” – Ellery Queen
– “Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.” – Mae West
– “Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.” – Nicole Hollander
– “Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.” – Unknown
– “Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.” – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
– “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.” – Chauncey Mitchell Depew
– “The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.” – Elizabeth Metcalf
– “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.” – Madeleine K. Albright
– “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde
– “There’s something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.” – Harold Robbins
– “When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.” – Unknown
– “Men get laid, but women get screwed.” – Quentin Crisp
– “The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.” – Germaine Greer
– “Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.” – Ovid
– “Howiver, I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.” – George Eliot, “The Harvest Supper”, Adam Bede
– “Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn’t want to own one.” – W.C. Fields
– “Women really do rule the world. They just haven’t figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we’re all in big big trouble.” – Doctor Leon
Laugh Quotes
– “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen
– “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ” – Jean Houston
– “Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.” – Unknown
– “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher
– “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”, Saturday Night Live
– “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Unknown
– “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle
– “What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!” – Agnes Repplier
– “So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” – Gordon W. Allport
– “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge
– “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb
– “When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” – Alan Alda
– “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut
– “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb
– “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart
– “A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.” – Puzant Kevork Thomajan
– “There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” – Françoise Sagan
– “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, «Ain’t that the truth.»” – Quincy Jones
– “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” – Henri Bergson
– “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.” – Max Eastman
– “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” – Raymond Hitchcock
– “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut
– “Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.” – Anna Fellows Johnston
– “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4
– “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” – Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
– “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln
– “Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.” – Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, “Robbed a Stoner Blind”, original airdate 16 November 2006
– “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey
Morning Quotes
– “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman
– “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately
– “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957
– “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown
– “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder
– “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault
– “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
– “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh
– “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown
– “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux
– “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
– “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown
– “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown
– “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson
– “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman
– “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings
– “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
– “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy
– “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault
– “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson
– “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson
– “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau
– “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce
– “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd
– “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather
– “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman
– “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner