George Sand Famous Quotes
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness."
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved."
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides."
George Sand Quotations
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
Clementine Paddleford
"Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves."
E M Forster
"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes."
Washington Irving
"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself."
Jean Anouilh
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
Edward Abbey
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
Johathan Sacks
"There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
May Sarton
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M Schulz
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon