Everything Quotes

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.