A Peripatetic Peruser's Collection of Eclectic Quotes
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The road to success is always under construction.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
If the people will lead, eventually the leaders will follow.
Sometimes you put up walls not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Hard work never killed anyone, but why take a chance?
Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?
When in danger, or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
To plant a garden is to believe in the future.
The difference between being involved and being committed is like a ham and egg breakfast: The chicken was involved; the pig was committed.
May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
A good horse is never a bad color.
A wise old owl sat on an oak.
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.
A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.
Every dog has its day, but the nights belong to the cats.
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.
Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.
When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween!
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.
Autumn is the hush before winter.
Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.
The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.
Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure.
What the New Year brings to you depends a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better person.
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.
A home without books is like a body without a soul.
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
The cuckoo is a lazy bird,
She never builds a nest.
She keeps herself busy
By singing to the rest.
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
A best friend is like a four leaf clover -- hard to find and lucky to have.
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.
We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
GOOD: Finding Easter eggs on Easter Sunday. BAD: Finding Easter eggs at Thanksgiving.
People who complain about paying their income tax can be divided into two types: men and women.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
~ Carl Sandburg
Earth laughs in flowers.
Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
What my mother believed about cooking is that, if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
~ Nora Ephron
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
Anyone can have a child, but it takes someone special to be a parent.
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
We never know the worth of water until the well is dry.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
That money talks, I'll not deny. I heard it once -- it said "good-bye".
Grandparents are the footsteps to the future generations.
Modern technology owes ecology an apology.
If I could be half the person my dog is, I would be twice the human I am.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.
Leave the bullying to bulls. Become human.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, "'Tis near Halloween!"
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who do not vote.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
~ O. Henry
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand!
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
~ Will Rogers
A house without a dog is like a garden without flowers.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs that I have known will go to Heaven, and very, very few persons.
~ James Thurber
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
~ Immanuel Kant
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.
~ Konrad Lorenz
A house is not a home without a dog.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
Always laugh when you can -- it is cheap medicine.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted.
May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go!
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
~Arthur C. Clarke
The first day of spring and the first spring day are two different things -- the difference between them is sometimes as great as a month!
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
A perfect cherry blossom is a rare thing -- you can spend your whole life looking for one, and it will not be a wasted life.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren.
~Pope John Paul II
God could not be everywhere, so He created mothers.
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
~Helen Keller
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
The red and white and starry blue is freedom's shield and hope.
~John Philip Sousa
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
~Winston Churchill
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
To ride a horse is to ride the sky.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
~Oscar Wilde
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
~Samuel Butler
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
I have always held that most dogs are good ... Some dogs, of course, are better than others. Dalmatians, naturally, as everyone knows, are best.
~Eugene O'Neill, from "The Last Will and Testament of Silverdene Emblem O'Neill"
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living, but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
~John D. Rockefeller
Housework can kill you if done right.
~Erma Bombeck
There's so much pollution in the air that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world ... is his dog.
~George Graham Vest, from "Tribute to the Dog"
Summer makes be drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
~Dorothy Parker
What a detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
~P. D. James
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
~E. O. Wilson
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
~Benjamin Franklin
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.
~Sir Walter Scott
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snows.
Listen with ears of tolerance. See with eyes of compassion. Speak with the language of love.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
~Nelson Mandela
The best gift around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
An optimist stays up to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
~Charles Lindbergh
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
~Roger Ebert
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~Abraham Lincoln
A horse is poetry in motion.
The groundhog is like most prophets; it delivers its predictions and then disappears.
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to capture your heart.
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
~Abraham Lincoln
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~W. Somerset Maugham
A human being's name is a principle component of his person, perhaps a piece of his soul.
~Sigmund Freud
Procrastination is the thief of time.
~Charles Dickens
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
~Charles M. Schulz
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
~Erma Bombeck
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
As children, small creatures endlessly fascinate us; as adults, we can protect them so as to inspire future children.
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
~Theodore Roosevelt
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
~Thomas Jefferson
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not fly in a vacuum.
~Arthur C. Clarke
Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it!
I'm glad it's finally hot enough to complain about how hot it is!
Ice cream is happiness condensed.
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
~Lewis Carroll
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
~Orville Wright
A man may smile and bid you hail,
Yet wish you to the devil;
But when a good dog wags his tail,
You know he's on the level.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
~Vince Lombardi
By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.
~Helen Hunt Jackson
Happiness is a warm puppy.
~Charles Schulz
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another.
~Plato
A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rainforest with respect, man will become extinct.
~Peter Benchley
Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen; voices whisper in the trees "Tonight is Halloween!"
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
~Roald Dahl
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~Jean Jacques Rousseau
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
A bird sitting on a tree is not afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch, but on its wings.
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home -- in heart as well as body.
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.
~Albert Einstein
A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.
Be happy, and a reason will come along.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Someone who loves you truly will never let you go whatever the situation may be.
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
~Roger Ebert
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Instead of Daylight Saving Time, we just need to shorten the workday so we don't need to get up while it's dark.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife, are in fact plans to protect man.
~Stewart Udall
I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils...
~William Wordsworth
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
~Ryunosuke Satoro
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the cost is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
~Walter Cronkite
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
~Rita Rudner
Let us read and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
~Voltaire
Saving an animal won't change the world, but for that animal the world changes forever.
A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to let go.
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
Love is a four-legged word.
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, our nation evermore.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
~Theodore Roosevelt
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
~Alice Walker
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.
If you have gained the trust of a horse, you have won a friend for life.
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
~Helen Keller
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~Mark Twain
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
~Thomas Jefferson
I read cookbooks the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen."
Whoever said that diamonds are a girl's best friend never owned a dog."
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
~Emily Brontё
You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
~C. S. Lewis
Reading gives us some placed to go when we have to stay where we are.
~Mason Cooley
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.
~Cree proverb
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
~Joseph Conrad
Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right question.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
~Honoré de Balzac
Black Friday: Because only in America, people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
~Bing Crosby
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~Bob Hope
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire; it is the time for home.
~Edith Sitwell
Here's wishing you more happiness than all my words can tell, not just alone for New Year's Eve but for all the year as well.
Kindness is like snow -- it beautifies everything it covers.
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle
Promise me you'll remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think.
~A. A. Milne
My heart to you is given:
Oh please give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders
Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.
~George Washington
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
~John Muir
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
~E. B. White
Spring translates earth's happiness into colorful flowers.
Easter is the only time of the year when it is perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket.
As we grow up, we realize it is less important to have lots of friends and more important to have real ones.
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
~Arthur C. Clarke
Thank God for dirty dishes,
They have a tale to tell;
While others may go hungry,
We're eating very well.
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
~Native American proverb
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, while pets we allow into our solitude.
Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts!
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Rivers are roads which move, and carry us whither we desire to go.
~Blaise Pascal
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
Credit cards are like snakes -- handle them long enough and one will bite you.
~Elizabeth Warren
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~Aristotle
You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a donkey in a hug.
Success in Scrabble means drawing a blank.
~Samuel Goldwyn
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
~Robert W. Lynd
The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.
Those who roll up their sleeves are rarely in danger of losing their shirts.
If we learn nothing else from this tragedy [9/11/2001], we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.
~Sandy Dahl (wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl)
Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.
Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.
~Elizabeth Lawrence
Sometimes we put our great treasures in museums. Other times we take them for walks.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
~Albert Einstein
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
~Marilyn vos Savant
My favorite color is October.
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, of soft and golden hue, pierce through the future's veil and show what fate now holds for you.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
~Abraham Lincoln
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
A lie can travel halfway around the globe, before the truth can get its shoes on.
~Mark Twain
Too many people buy things they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't even like.
Cookies are made of butter and love.
~Norwegian proverb
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
~John F. Kennedy
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
~W. T. Ellis
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey
A life directed chiefly towards the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment.
~Albert Einstein
Dieting is wishful shrinking!
The power of the people is greater than the people in power.
~Wael Ghonim
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
~George Washington
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
~Charles Darwin
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~Abraham Lincoln
February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
~Lewis Grizzard
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight saving time.
~Dave Barry
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in the garden.
~ Ruth Stout
It's better to have your nose in a book, than in someone else's business.
~Adam Stanley
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
~Hal Borland
Bunnies are cuddly, the large and the small, but I like the chocolate ones best of them all!
The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
~Gaylord Nelson
Saving an animal won't change the world, but for that animal the world changes forever.
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
~John Ruskin
There is nothing as powerful as a mother's love, and nothing as healing as a child's soul.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
~William Faulkner
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
~Richard Elliott Friedman
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
~Lao Tzu
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~Albert Schweitzer
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
~William Faulkner
Ask me to show you poetry in motion, and I will show you a horse.
If what you have to say is not better than silence, then you should keep silent.
~Confucius
Two of life's greatest treasures... friends and ice cream!
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
~Garrison Keillor
These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.
~Natalie Babbitt
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
~Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
~Buddha
Our true nationality is mankind.
~H. G. Wells
September tries its best to have us forget summer.
~Bernard Williams
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
~Diane Ackerman
We are living on this planet as if we have another one to go to.
~Terri Swearingen
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
~Clifton Fadiman
Some people create their own storms, and then get upset when it rains.
Being unique is better than being perfect.
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
~Werner Herzog
Sorry you wasted the extra hour you gained this weekend trying to figure out how to change all of the different clocks in your house.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when they are open.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
~Oscar Wilde
Chill December brings the sleet, blazing fire, and Christmas treat.
~Sara Coleridge
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
~Desmond Tutu
Stressed is just desserts spelled backwards.
The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us.
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.
A bad attitude is like a flat tire - you can't go anywhere until you change it.
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
~Kahlil Gibran
A lot of people like Snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
~Carl Reiner
Until we extend the circle of compassion to all living creatures, humanity will not find peace.
~Albert Schweitzer
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~Thomas Edison
Not every person knows how to love a dog, but every dog knows how to love a person.
Let [dogs] sniff... their world is made of scents more than sights.
~Alexandra Horowitz
May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness comes through your door.
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
~Hal Borland
Blossom by blossom the spring arrives.
~A.C. Swinburne
May your Easter be as colorful as the eggs you find in your basket!
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
~Doris Day
Everyone thinks they have the best dog... and none of them are wrong.
~W.R. Purche
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
~John Muir
Dancers are the athletes of God.
~Albert Einstein
Laughter is like a windshield wiper - it doesn't stop the rain, but it allows us to keep going.
For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
~William Ross Wallace
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who teach the most about humanity aren't always human.
If you come home as happy as you leave, you have had a good vacation.
I've been waiting all winter to start complaining about the summer heat.
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly, until at last the darkness is no more.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
~Henry Miller
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
A moth may be a poor cousin to a butterfly, but it is still beautiful none the less.
~Anthony T. Hincks
Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful.
Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
~Old Farmer's Advice
You have to be odd to be number one.
~Dr. Seuss
Learn how to cook -- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have fun.
~Julia Child
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.
~John McCain
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
~Aretha Franklin
Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.
~Neil Simon
The wise speak only of what they know.
~J. R. R. Tolkien
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
~Ann Landers
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
~Jonas Salk
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
~James Bryce
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship.
~Pope John Paul II
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
~Confucius
Villainy wears many masks, none more dangerous than the mask of virtue.
~Washington Irving
We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
~Thomas Jefferson
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
~Anne Herbert
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
~Confucius
The job of feet is dancing, but their hobby is dancing.
~Amit Kalantri
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
~Elie Wiesel
Christmas is not so much about opening presents, as opening our hearts.
The greater danger for most of us is not so much that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
~Michelangelo
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't happened yet.
Sometimes clean feels empty. A bit of clutter and dirt gladdens the hear and affirms a life in progress.
~Terri Guillemets
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
~William Penn
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
~Saul Bellow
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
~John Glenn
Love makes the world go 'round, but laughter keeps us from getting dizzy.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~C.S. Lewis
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~Susan J. Bissonette
Farming is a profession of hope.
~Brian Brett
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
~Robin Williams
Every person makes mistakes, but only a fool persists in his delusions.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
A library is a hospital for the mind.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
~Charles Lamb
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
~Chinese proverb
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
~Gary Snyder
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
~Ajahn Brahm
Heaven's the place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
~Thomas Jefferson
The love of all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
~Charles Darwin
Even a fish could stay out of trouble if it would just learn to keep its mouth shut.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
~Peter Marshall
Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
~Albert Einstein
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.
~Kenneth Cooper
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
~Abraham Lincoln
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
~Robert Urich
Our house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy.
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them.
~Thom Jones
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
~Albert Einstein
If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy but still the same amount of snow.
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall and the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~Washington Irving
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
~C.S. Lewis
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
~Mark Twain
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
~Albert Einstein
Keep an open mind and a closed refrigerator.
Winter nights were made for warm fires and large books.
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.
~Carroll Bryant
Kind hearts are the gardens.
Kind thoughts are the roots.
Kind words are the blossoms.
Kind deeds are the fruits.
~Kirpal Singh
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
~Winston Churchill
Why can't Daylight Saving Time happen on a Friday at 4 PM?
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
~Linda Grayson
The fact that there is a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers.
Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.
~Ewa Kopacz
Be kind to every kind, not just mankind.
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.
~Barack Obama
If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you.
~Ashleigh Brilliant
Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.
~Mark Twain
True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.
Open books lead to open minds.
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm. everything becomes clear.
~Prasad Mahes
Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but it's beautiful to love the ordinary.
Bittersweet October, the mellow, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~Carol Bishop Hipps
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
~Barry Commoner
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
~James D. Miles
Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give.
Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.
~Jefferson Bethke
The future lies before you, like a field of fallen snow; Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
One kind word can warm up three winter months.
~Japanese proverb
The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana.
Springtime is the land awakening - the March winds are the morning yawn.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln
Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck.
Your mind is a garden,
Your thoughts are the seeds.
You can grow flowers
Or you can grow weeds.
The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgment.
If you want to go fast, travel alone; if you want to go far, travel together.
~African proverb
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~Albert Schweitzer
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
~John Steinbeck
Summertime is always the best of what might be.
I don't need a motivational quote - I need ice cream!
Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Summer is the uncomfortable price we pay for the welcome reward of autumn.
~my original quote
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
Kindness is always in season.
November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.
There's always something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving, even if it's just not being a turkey.
Chill December brings the sleet, blazing fire, and Christmas treat.
All you need is love and Christmas cookies!
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
Leaving any bookstore is hard... especially on a day in January, when the wind is blowing, the ice is treacherous, and the books inside seem to gather in colorful warmth.
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.
~Garrison Keillor
Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.
No man is too stupid or wicked not to have a following.
~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wildflowers aren't meant to be cut and tamed. They're meant to be loved and admired.
~Anthony T. Hincks
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
~Abraham Lincoln
August is like the Sunday of summer.
September tries its best to have us forget summer.
In the entire circle of the year there is no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
There is always something to be thankful for.
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.
Springtime is the land awakening; the March winds are the morning yawn.
April, dressed in all its trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
~William Shakespeare
One person's weed is another person's wildflower.
June is the gateway to summer.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
~Theodore Roosevelt
August is like the Sunday of summer.
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.
~Vern McLellan
Spring's first heartbeat honors winter's last breath.
Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April Day!
May all your weeds be wildflowers.
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
~George Washington
One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.
I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.
That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast.
