1. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
2. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
3. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
4. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
5. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
6. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
7. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
8. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
9. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
10. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
11. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
12. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
13. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
14. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
15. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
15 Short Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
15 Short Quotes by Martin Luther King
1. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
2. If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
3. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
4. All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
5. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
6. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
7. A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
8. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
9. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
10. Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
11. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
12. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
13. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
14. When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
15. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
10 Short Quotes about Life
1. It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ~ Millard Fuller
2. Engrave this Quote Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
3. Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve. ~ Coco Chanel
4. The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
5. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ~ Langston Hughes
6. The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less. ~ Vaclav Havel
7. Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. ~ John Sales
8. Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. ~ Grace Murray Hopper
9. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~ Roger Caras
10. I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.
I awoke - and found that life was duty. ~ Ellen Stugis Hooper
