Christopher Columbus Famous Quotes
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
Christopher Columbus Quotations
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be
William Hazlitt
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears."
John Newton
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett
"Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.."
Turkish Proverb
"I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world."
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."
Eric Hoffer
"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President'"
Will Rogers
"Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody."
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
Charles Caleb Colton
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this."
Henry David Thoreau