Edward Fitzgerald Famous Quotes
Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone that is what I learn as I get old.
Edward Fitzgerald Quotations
"I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
Helen Steiner Rice
"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I."
W Somerset Maugham
"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
Aristotle
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Meigs Haig
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account."
Benjamin Franklin
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)
La Rochefoucauld
"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success."
Dorthea Bragg
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland