Edith Newbold Jones Wharton Famous Quotes
There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton Quotations
"If there's ever an amusement park called Bag World, I bet it would really start to annoy you after a while how they really sort of stretch the definition of 'bag.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling."
Robert F Goheen
"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."
Helen Gahagan Douglas
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
Henry Louis Mencken
"There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures."
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright
The eyes are the window of the soul.
English Proverb
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.
Albert Schweitzer
When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Etty Hilsum