Bret Harte Famous Quotes
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte Quotations
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
Jacques Martin Barzun
"We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"
Henry David Thoreau
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
Richard von Weizscker
"Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch."
Yoshida Kenko
"You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose."
Indira Gandhi
We become what we do.
Maylin Soong Chiang
A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It's deja vu all over again
Yogi Berra