Martha Washington Famous Quotes
"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
Martha Washington Quotations
...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet.
Hermann Hesse
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder."
Pope John Paul I
"Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion."
Jerry Coleman
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."
Stephen A Brennan
"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
Richard Milhous Nixon
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Reuben Second most successful robbery. The Flamingo in '71. This guy actually tasted fresh oxygen before they grabbed him. Of course, he was breathing out of a hose for the next three weeks. God damn hippy."
Ocean s Eleven
"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
Mark Twain