George William Curtis Famous Quotes
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
"I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be The waves that plunged along the shore Said only Dreamer, dream no more"
George William Curtis Quotations
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
Robertson Davies
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me"
Brian Tracy
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.
Alice Mackenzie Swaim
"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
Elbert Hubbard
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."
Hesiod
"There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."
James Thurber