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Quotes About Advice

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Good Advice

Quotations & Citations:

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
~ Maya Angelou

 

When you get rid of your negative thoughts, positive things will start to happen.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
~ Maya Angelou

 

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

 

~ Erica Jong

 

Marilyn Monroe

 

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
~ Francis Bacon, The Advancement Of Learning

 

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

 

~ Gordon R. Dickson

 

Never miss a good chance to shut up.
~ Will Rogers

 

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

 

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

 

~ Henry Wheeler Shaw

 

Here’s some advice. Stay alive.
~ Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

 

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

 

A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.

 

~ Bill Cosby

 

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

 

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.

 

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

 

~ William Shakespeare

 

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida

 

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

 

When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.

 

~ Charles Varlet de La Grange

 

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

 

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

 

~ Hannah Whitall Smith

 

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

 

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~ Benjamin Franklin

 

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

 

~ Solon

 

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

 

I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.
~ Robert Michaels MD

 

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

 

~ John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

 

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
~ Robert Frost

 

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

 

Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

 

~ Mary Wortley Montagu

 

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

 

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance.

 

 

The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
~ Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

 

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

 

~ Edgar Watson Howe

 

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.
~ Edward Abbey

 

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

 

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

 

~ Cicero

 

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
~ Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

 

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
~ Steven Brust, Jhereg

 

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

 

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
~ Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

 

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
~ Louis C.K.

 

My advice for a person who’s just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms…faster.
~ Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

 

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams.

 

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
~ Bruce Lee

 

Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
~ William Martin, The Parent’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

 

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

 

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life

 

I don’t think anyone can give you advice when you’ve got a broken heart.
~ Britney Spears

 

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
~ Steve Jobs

 

Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
~ Wendell Berry

 

I used to thing the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.

 

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
~ John Boyle O’Reilly, Life of John Boyle O’Reilly

 

One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock…
~ Johnny Depp

 

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

 

The best way to predict your future is to create it
~ Abraham Lincoln

 

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
~ Wendell Johnson

 

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!
~ Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father’s Advice to His Son

 

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

 

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

 

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

 

Teaching children to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
~ Erica Jong

 

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

 

Self-consciousness kills communication.
~ Rick Steves

 

You are a master of the words you don't say and a slave to the ones you do.

 

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
~ Anne Tyler

 

It’s easy to look back and see it, and it’s easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don’t look beneath the surface until it’s too late.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen

 

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

 

If your clothes are enough to drive would-be friends away, they’re not the kind of friends you want.”
Typical mother advice. Sweet, honest, and completely useless.
~ Aprilynne Pike, Wings

 

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
~ Jules Renard

 

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

 

I always advise people never to give advice.
~ P.G. Wodehouse

 

Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.
~ Valencia Mackie

 

Do or do not There is no Try.

 

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

 

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
~ Neil Gaiman

 

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow

 

I wish the masses of people would all follow my advice, because I’d throw it off a cliff.
~ Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

 

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.
~ Michael Crichton, The Lost World

 

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

 

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack

 

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a
long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.
~ Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

 

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

 

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.
~ Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

 

My mother always said ‘Don’t bother other people.’ I think that’s good advice.
~ Amy Sedaris

 

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow

 

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

 

On your birthday you should throw me a party. This is my advice for everybody, especially my clones.
~ Jarod Kintz, $3.33

 

 

Quotes About Christmas

Awesome Quotes and Sayings On Christmas

Quotations & Citations:

Christmas is coming; it is almost here!
With Santa and presents, good will and cheer!
~ Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “Christmas”

 

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
~Thomas Tusser

 

 

One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

 

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

 

It is the Christmas time:
And up and down ‘twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb.
~Dinah Maria Mulock

 

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

 

~ Taylor Caldwell

 

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

 

~ Lucinda Franks

 

 

It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes or bags!… Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”

 

~ Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

 

People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

 

~ Ogden Nash

 

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

 

~ J.L.W. Brooks

 

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
~ George Carlin

 

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, — not even a mouse:
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there….
~Clement Clarke Moore

 

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

 

~ Alexander Smith

 

 

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
~ Christina Rossetti

 

We look back on our childhood
When we all were so gay;
There was nothing but pleasure
Every dear Christmas Day.
But as each one grows older,
And memories crowd ’round
Of all the joys in the past,
And we miss the dear sound
Of the voice of a loved one
Who is absent this year,
Then, it’s hard to recapture
Christmas spirit and cheer!
~ Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “When Christmas Comes”

 

CALVIN:
This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn’t make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
If the guy exists why doesn’t he ever show himself and prove it?
And if he doesn’t exist what’s the meaning of all this?
HOBBES:
I dunno. Isn’t this a religious holiday?
CALVIN:
Yeah, but actually, I’ve got the same questions about God.
~ Bill Watterson

 

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…
~ Norman Wesley Brooks

 

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

 

~ Johnny Carson

 

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
~ Charles Dickens

 

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow…
~ Irving Berlin

 

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

 

~ Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

 

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

 

~ Dick Gregory

 

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.
~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

 

We ring the bells and we raise the strain
We hang up garlands everywhere
And bid the tapers twinkle fair,
And feast and frolic — and then we go
Back to the same old lives again.
~ Susan Coolidge

 

Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale;
‘Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.
~ Walter Scott

 

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
~ Bob Hope

 

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.

 

~ J.L.W. Brooks

 

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
~ Ronald Reagan

 

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

 

~ Burton Hillis

 

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

 

~ Kin Hubbard

 

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

 

~ Roy L. Smith

 

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~ Mary Ellen Chase

 

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

 

~ Bernard Manning

 

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

 

~ Norman Vincent Peale

 

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
~ Charles M. Schulz

 

It matters not what the custom may be,
For Christmas is loved by you and by me!
Yes; the years may come and the years may go;
But, when December wind doth, coldly, blow,
We all, I guess, are just children once more
And we plan our gifts, as we did of yore.
~ Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

 

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

 

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

 

~ Charles Dickens

 

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

 

~ Johnny Carson

 

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!
~ Dave Barry

 

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

 

~ Jay Leno

 

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer…. Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
~ Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

 

Once again, my dear people,
Merry Christmas is here,
With holly and mistletoe
And its good will and cheer!
With its joys and its heartaches,
With its laughter and song,
It comes as a reminder
That time marches along.
~ Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “When Christmas Comes”

 

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~ Roy L. Smith

 

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

 

~ Joan Rivers

 

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
~ Andy Rooney

 

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

 

~ Erma Bombeck

 

The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy

 

At Christmas-tide the open hand
Scatters its bounty o’er sea and land,
And none are left to grieve alone,
For Love is heaven and claims its own.
~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

 

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
~ Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

 

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

 

~ Charles Dickens

 

If my Valentine you won’t be,
I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
~ Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems

 

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.

 

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.
~ Greg Kincaid

 

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

 

~ Deborah Whipp

 

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood
~ Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box

 

 

Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
~ Vachel Lindsay

 

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans–and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused–and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.
~ Sigrid Undset

 

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

 

~ Calvin Coolidge

 

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

 

The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~ Bob Hope

 

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!
~Carolyn Wells

 

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.
~ Eric Sevareid

 

Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

 

~ Pope John XXIII

 

They are Man’s and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

 

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
~ Philip Yancey

 

If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, wouldn’t it be a Merry Christmas?

 

~ Don Meredith

 

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years

 

Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.
~William Robert Spencer

 

Santa Claus has nothing to do with it,” the latke said. “Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things.”

But different things can often blend together,” said the pine tree. “Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.”
~ Lemony Snicket, The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story

 

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

 

~ Agnes M. Pahro

 

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
~ Helen Steiner Rice

 

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.

 

~ Andy Rooney

 

My parents always said that knowledge was the best gift they could give me, probably because they were too cheap to buy me Christmas or Birthday presents.
~ Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can’t

 

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.
~Ada V. Hendricks

 

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Washington Irving

 

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given — when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

 

~ Joan Winmill Brown

 

 

He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.
~ Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories

 

Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren’t for Christmas
We’d all be Jewish.
~ Benny Hill

 

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness.
~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

 

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things — not the great occasions — give off the greatest glow of happiness.

 

~ Bob Hope

 

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.
~ Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt

 

I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

 

~ E.M. Forster

 

 

Quotes About Leadership

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Leadership

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

 

~Eric Hoffer

 

 

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward

 

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

 

 

To lead the people, walk behind them.

 

~Lao-Tzu

 

 

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
~ Marie Lu, Legend

 

 

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

 

~Lee Iacocca

 

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.

 

 

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.  He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

 

~Ralph Nader

 

 

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
~ Ronald Reagan

 

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

 

 

Leadership:  the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

 

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
~ John C. Maxwell

 

 

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes.  It is very easy to say yes.

 

~Tony Blair

 

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

 

 

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
~ Dolly Parton

 

 

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.

 

~Vince Lombardi

 

 

Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
~ Beth Revis, Across the Universe

 

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

 

 

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

 

~Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.
~ Groucho Marx

 

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

 

 

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

 

~Golda Meir

 

 

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
~ George S. Patton Jr.

 

 

A leader leads by example not by Force.

 

~Sun Tzu

 

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve

 

 

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
~ Lao Tzu

 

 

Leaders need to be optimists.  Their vision is beyond the present.

 

~Rudy Giuliani

 

Your job is to get your audience to care about you obsessions.
Your job is to get your audience to care about you obsessions.

 

 

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
~ Peter F. Drucker

 

 

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.

 

~Indira Gandhi

 

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

 

 

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

 

~ John F. Kennedy

 

 

A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists.
~Witter Bynner

 

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

 

 

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
~ Brandon Sanderson

 

 

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

 

~ John C. Maxwell

 

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.

 

 

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
~ Aristotle

 

 

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

 

~Dennis A. Peer

 

Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

 

 

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
~ John C. Maxwell

 

 

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

 

~Thomas J. Watson

 

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree

 

 

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
~ Margaret Thatcher

 

 

You do not lead by hitting people over the head.  That’s assault, not leadership.

 

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.

 

 

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.

 

~ Albert Schweitzer

 

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

 

 

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
~ Robert E. Lee

 

 

Leadership is action, not position.

 

~ Donald H. McGannon

 

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

 

 

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~ Colin Powell

 

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” – a leader says “Let’s go!”

 

~ E.M. Kelly

 

 

 

 

Quotes About Inspiration

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Inspiration

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

 

Do one thing every day that scares you.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
~Neil Gaiman

 

The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.
The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.

 

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
~ Langston Hughes

 

 

What’s meant to be will always find a way
~ Trisha Yearwood

 

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
~ Maya Angelou

 

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

 

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
~ Lance Armstrong

 

 

If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

 

~ Dhirubhai Ambani

 

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there.

 

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
~ Lou Holtz

 

 

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
~ Lou Holtz

 

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

 

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
~ Vincent van Gogh

 

 

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
~ Jane Goodall

 

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move On. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move On. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

 

 

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
~ Thomas Jefferson

 

 

And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe Me.”

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.
~ Hāfez

 

We know what we are but not what we may be.
We know what we are but not what we may be.

 

 

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
~ Marcus Aurelius

 

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

 

 

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
~ Rumi

 

 

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
~ Steve Maraboli

 

Remember, if you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!
Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!

 

 

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
~ Jack London

 

 

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
~ Babe Ruth

 

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

 

 

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~ Gautama Buddha

 

 

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.
~ Karen E. Quinones Miller

 

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

 

 

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
~ Leo Buscaglia

 

 

Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
~ Ayn Rand

 

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

 

 

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
~ C. JoyBell C.

 

 

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
~ Susan Sontag

 

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

 

 

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
~ Mary Kay Ash

 

 

All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

 

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

 

 

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
~ Lou Holtz

 

 

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.
~ Garth Stein

 

Do or do not There is no Try.
Do or do not There is no Try.

 

 

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

 

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
~ Albert Einstein

 

The impossible is often the untried.
The impossible is often the untried.

 

 

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
~ Albert Einstein

 

 

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

 

 

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
~ Lou Holtz

 

 

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
~ Theodore Roosevelt

 

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

 

Imagination is the highest form of research.
~ Albert Einstein

 

 

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.
~ Donald Trump

 

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

 

 

It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

 

Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.
~ Jack London

 

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother

 

 

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.
~ Randy Pausch

 

 

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
~ Ernest Hemingway

 

 

The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.
~ Tricia Cunningham

 

 

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
~ Confucius

 

 

 

Quotes About Beer

Quotes About Beer

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Beer

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

 

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind

~ Humphrey Bogart

 

You don’t have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.

~Author Unknown

 

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

–Benjamin Franklin

 

Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

– Earnest Hemingway

 

Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer, and I’ll show you an advanced toilet technology.

~Mark Hawkins

 

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

For a quart of Ale is a meal for a King.

~ William Shakespeare

 

He is a wise man who invented beer.

~ Plato

 

In those old days which poets say were golden—
(Perhaps they laid the gilding on themselves:
And, if they did, I’m all the more beholden
To those brown dwellers in my dusty shelves,
Who talk to me “in language quaint and olden”
Of gods and demigods and fauns and elves,
Pan with his pipes, and Bacchus with his leopards,
And staid young goddesses who flirt with shepherds.
~Charles Stuart Calverley

 

 

What were they thinking? ‘It’s an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

 

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

–Frank Zappa

 

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.

~ Frank Sinatra

 

Each of us is a beer expert. We know what tastes good. Understanding beer deepens our pleasure, but it all comes down to that first ahhh.

~Stephen Dinehart

 

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

 

 

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

~ Dave Barry

 

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

~ Kaiser Wilhelm

 

 

The three B’s—beef, beer, and bread, form a complete and perfect diet, at once strengthening, sustaining, and stimulating.

~Charles Hyatt-Woolf

 

 

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
~ Abraham Lincoln

 

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

~ Ernest Hemingway

 

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.

~ Homer Simpson

 

 

Coffee is good, and so no doubt is cocoa;
Tea did for Johnson and the Chinamen…
The Prima Donna, smiling herself out,
Recruits her flagging powers with bottled stout.
~Charles Stuart Calverley

 

Beer is made by men, wine by God.
~ Martin Luther

 

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

~ Dean Martin

 

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

~ Stephen Wright

 

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

~Dave Barry

 

Snow is not microwave friendly. In fact, snow is not too friendly at all, unless you first buy it a few beers. Then it’s just downright slutty.
~ Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

 

 

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.

~ W.C. Fields

 

Everybody has to believe in something…..I believe I’ll have another drink.

~ W.C. Fields

 

 

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

~Charles Papazian

 

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.
~ Martin Luther

 

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

~ W.C. Fields

 

May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.

~ Irish Toast

 

 

Our Lager, which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy Drink.
Thy will be drunk at home,
As it is in the pub.
Give us this day our foamy head.
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not into incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer,
The bitter, the lager.
For ever and ever.
Barmen.
~Author Unknown

 

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

~ Winston Churchill

 

 

Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of good beer.

~Author Unknown

 

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine.
~ Craig Ferguson

 

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.

~Tom Waits

 

Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life’s problems.

~ Homer Simpson

 

No, they did not drink Beer….
That abstinence from Malt
Has always struck me as extremely curious.
The Greek mind must have had some vital fault,
That they should stick to liquors so injurious—
(Wine, water, tempered p’raps with Attic salt)—
And not at once invent that mild, luxurious,
And artful beverage, Beer. How the digestion
Got on without it, is a startling question.
~Charles Stuart Calverley

 

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.
~ Willie Nelson

 

Beer’s intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
~ Ray Bradbury, The October Country

 

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.

~ Homer Simpson

 

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

~ Henry Lawson

 

Why we are here? To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven’s symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.

~David Letterman

 

I don’t think I’ve drunk enough beer to understand that.
~ Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

 

 

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

~ Unknown

 

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
~Author Unknown

 

I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.
~ Nora Roberts, Chasing Fire

 

Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.

-Catherine Zandonella

 

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

~ Seneca

 

Beware, froth is not beer.

~Danish Proverb

 

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.
~ Rafael Sabatini, Fortune’s Fool

 

A man who lies about beer makes enemies
~ Stephen King, Pet Sematary

 

Non-Drinker: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

~ Ambrose Bierce

 

I work until beer o’clock.

~ Stephen King

 

There is nothing for a case of nerves like a case of beer.

~Joan Goldstein

 

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it’s all–hahhhh.
~ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

 

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

~Alan D. Eames

Quotes About Astrology

Quotes About Astrology

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Astrology

Quotations & Citations:

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
~ Arthur C. Clarke

 

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

~Louis Pasteur

 

Millionaires don’t use Astrology, billionaires do.
~ J.P. Morgan

 

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish…

~Robert G. Ingersoll

 

The good news is that she is one of the nicest people in the universe. The bad news is, that’s because she always does exactly what she pleases. An Aquarius female is rebellious, headstrong, and contrary. She can be selfishly independent and exasperating, especially when she is running through the house screaming, “freedom!
~ Hazel Dixon-Cooper

 

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an “intellectual” – find out how he feels about astrology.

~Robert A. Heinlein

 

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.
~ C.G. Jung

 

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

~Benjamin Stillingfleet

 

The stars have a strong effect on our daily shopping lives. Hollywood is astrology’s only credible conspiracy.
~ Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

 

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

~Thomas Aquinas

 

I don’t differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
~ Andy Rooney, Sincerely, Andy Rooney

 

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time….

~Carl Jung

 

So few people admit to belief in astrology, but I am yet to meet anyone who doesn’t know their star sign.
~ P.K. Shaw

 

They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change your
destiny?”. Well, it’s true that you can’t change your destiny, but still it helps
knowing about gravity.
~ Kedar Joshi

 

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men.  It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego:  it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

 

Astrology is all about myths, fears and blind convictions. Not only Tarot, but its all forms are blots on the crown of human wisdom. God has given this brain to explore truth and unfold mysteries, but fools love to play in dark rather moving into a world of light and incessant knowledge. May God dispel the darkness!
~ Faisal Mushtaq

 

Timing is easy to predict through the movement of the stars as they give the propensity of pure potential.
~ Ambika Devi

 

Astrology is a fact, in most instances.  But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols.  No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual…. Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self.

~Edgar Cayce

 

In the ancient and medieval world, the exploration of physical influences among heavenly bodies, and between the heavenly bodies and objects on earth, was generally called ‘astrology.’ But we must not confuse this with the current socially acceptable form of bigotry that seems to entitle the human beings who believe in it to prejudge the character of others based solely on their dates of birth.
~ Robert P. Crease, The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

 

It would seem, O Nushain, that you have doubted your own horoscope,’ said the guide, with a certain irony. ‘However, even a bad astrologer, on occasion, may read the heavens aright. Obey, then, the stars that decreed your journey.
~ Clark Ashton Smith

 

Responsibility, n.  A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor.  In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

~Ambrose Bierce

 

Astrology is a cousin of racism.
~ Penn Jillette

 

Your path is illuminated by a road-map of stars. I am here to guide you!
~ Ambika Devi

 

At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology.  There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness.  Please, don’t worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes.  I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

~Carl Jung

 

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
~ Paracelsus

 

My astrologer predicted a year of successful enterprise and good fortune. So what went wrong? Had there been some ghastly beaureaucratic astral mix up?
~ Tyne O’Connell, Latest Accessory

 

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

~Alexander Pope

 

The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.
~ Johannes Kepler, Harmonies Of The World

 

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.
~ Aleister Crowley, The Complete Astrological Writings

 

For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of human life while providing profound insights and practical guidance.
~ Anne M. Nordhaus-Bike, Follow the Sun: A Simple Way to Use Astrology for Living in Harmony

 

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

~Letitia Elizabeth Landon

 

Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson

 

The astrologer who spells the stars, mistakes his globes, and in her bright eye interprets heaven’s physiognomies.

~John Cleveland

 

After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.
~ Franz Cumont, Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans

 

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past.
~ Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

 

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

~Christopher Marlowe

 

Astrology can clear up or mix up a person as much as any other psychological, philosophical or religious mirror, a looking glass in the endless mirror hall of life.

~Markku Siivola

 

While a Sagittarian tends to be candid, there’s also a part of them that could be described as being more devious than Pisces, more deceptive than Gemini and more carnal than Scorpio.
~ Rosemary Breen, Horoscope Compatibility for All the Zodiac Signs

 

The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.  The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins.  The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever.  Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus?  But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

~D.H. Lawrence

 

Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded…

~Dennis Elwell

 

Astrology is a language.  If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

~Dane Rudhyar

 

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy:  the mad daughter of a wise mother.

~Voltaire

 

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

~Roger L’Estrange

 

I find my zenith doth depend upon
A most auspicious star, whose influence
If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop.
~William Shakespeare

 

The Moon rules our emotional nature, how we react in situations, and what is needed in our lives to make us feel emotionally safe and secure.
~ Rosemary Breen, Horoscope Compatibility for All the Zodiac Signs

 

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

~William Shakespeare

 

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

~Varaha Mihira

 

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection…

~Carl Jung

 

Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that exists in the world.

~Karen Hamaker-Zondag

 

A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.

~Sri Yukteswar

 

Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

 

Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.

~Steven Forrest

 

The Sun rules our inner personalities – who we are to those who know us best.
~ Rosemary Breen, Horoscope Compatibility for All the Zodiac Signs

 

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities.  They are communism at its best.  Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

 

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?  ~Mason Cooley

 

Who needs astrology?  The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

~Edward Abbey

 

 

Quotes About Women’s Equality Day

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Women’s Equality Day

Quotations & Citations:

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

~Fay Weldon

 

 

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~ Louisa May Alcott

 

 

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

~ Elizabeth I

 

 

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

~ Erica Jong

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly.

~Sally Kempton

 

 

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
~ Susan B. Anthony

 

 

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women’s names.

~ Elaine Gill

 

 

Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

~ Gloria Steinem

 

 

We haven’t come a long way, we’ve come a short way. If we hadn’t come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

~Elizabeth Janeway

 

 

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
~ Susan B. Anthony

 

 

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn’t have what it takes. They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

 

 

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

~ Simone de Beauvoir

I didn’t want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

~Jane Rule

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
~ Susan B. Anthony, Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

~ Margaret Mead

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

~ Helen Gurley Brown

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?

~Barbara Kingsolver

I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
~ Nancy Astor

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren’t our sumo wrestlers in the government?

~ Kishida Toshiko

 

 

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

~ Alice Walker

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

~Gloria Steinem

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

~ Virginia Woolf

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I’m afraid I’m not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me.

~ Mary McCarthy

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

~Maureen Murphy

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road—the one “less traveled by”—offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
~ Rachel Carson

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. It’s complicated by the fact that in most nations women receive substantially less education than men.

~ Melinda Gates

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

~ Pearl S. Buck

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?

~Edith Evans

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

~ Nora Ephron

The best thing a man can do for his health is to be married to a woman. One of the best things a woman can do for her health is to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends.

~ Suzanne Braun Levine

To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.

~Lily Tomlin

We’ve chosen the path to equality, don’t let them turn us around.
~ Geraldine Ferraro

I ask no favors for my sex…. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.

~ Sarah Moore Grimke

A woman is the full circle.

Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

~ Diane Mariechild

You should have dreams, you should have visions. Never let any obstacle stop you.

~ Ruth Gruber

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

~Erica Jong

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
~ Jane Fonda

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

~ Margaret Sanger

Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.

~Nancy Linn-Desmond

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
~ Janis Joplin

I Love You Quotes For Him and Her

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About “I Love You”

Quotations & Citations:

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

~Author Unknown

 

 

How do you know when it’s over?
“Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.
~ Gunnar Ardelius, I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits

 

Marilyn Monroe
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

 

For ’twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland

 

 

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.
~Coco J. Ginger

 

 

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.

~Aerosmith

 

 

The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn’t over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.
~John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

 

Lauren Conrad
Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.

 

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

~ Annie (Movie Quote)

 

 

It’s okay to love something a little too much as long as it’s real to you.
~Gerard Way

 

 

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

~Robert Fulghum, True Love

 

Kurt Vonnegut
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

 

I have a tongue like a rose petal, and when I say I love you, it has the fragrance of truth. My words are my garden, and I’m planting our future.
~Jarod Kintz, Xazaqazax

 

 

I love you like crazy, baby
’Cuz I’d go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre

 

Nicholas Sparks
True Love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.

 

You’re so beautiful
But that’s not why I love you
And I’m not sure you know
That the reason I love you, is you
Being you, just you
Yea the reason I love you
Is all that we’ve been through
And that’s why I love you.
~Avril Lavigne

 

 

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

~W. Somerset Maugham

 

 

3.5 billion men in the world all share one I love you. That’s why men rarely say it, because there is only one in the world for the whole gender to share and take turns using.
~Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81

 

Love is not singular except in syllable.
Love is not singular except in syllable.

 

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.

~Pablo Neruda

 

 

My I love yous were watered down, which was how I was able to grow such a beautiful garden. I’m a relationship farmer, and I’m growing as a person.
~Jarod Kintz, Xazaqazax

 

 

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

~Zelda Fitzgerald

 

Love me and the world is mine.
Love me and the world is mine.

 

I never said I love you because I knew he would understand it differently. I loved him, and I still do, but it was as a chapter. It wasn’t as a fairytale ending.
~Dominic Riccitello

 

 

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

~George Jean Nathan

 

 

I always pray to God that every day when I wake up I’ll treat it as if it is the last so that I will spend the rest of my life proving to you how much I love you.
~Carl Lomer Abia

 

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

 

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.

~Sylvester Stallone

 

 

I am so sorry I do not have enough money to support your expensive obsessions and fancy lifestyle choice. I just love you and I wish I could love you the way you want me to, I am not bitter so smile and go on then be free and wild with the deeper pockets you’ll meet along your way.
~Fort Free

 

 

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

~Zora Neale Hurston

 

 

Love means a lot to those whose hearts understand its rhythm and language
~Ikechukwu Izuakor

 

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

 

 

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.
~William Shakespeare

 

 

And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work.
~Dominic Riccitello

 

 

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

~George Moore

 

My heart is spinning. Love is a tornado. Will you be my Kansas?
My heart is spinning. Love is a tornado. Will you be my Kansas?

 

There is difference when someone says ‘Love You’ and when they ‘I Love You’. The word ‘I’ saws the worthiness and devotion in what you are saying.
~ Unarine Ramaru

 

 

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye Pierce

 

 

Before you live, love. Before you expire, inspire. Let your love be an inspiration to someone to also love another and together we build up a happy world!
~Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Watchwords

 

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.
Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

 

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

 

 

There is no distinct colour of love, it only takes the colour of the hearts.
~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

 

Who, being loved, is poor?

~Oscar Wilde

 

 

You should either be like the candle that produces light or you live like mirror which reflects it. Pray for love; Sow love, Show love and Share love!
~ Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

 

 

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

~Michael Leunig

 

For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

 

With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.
~ Shannon L. Alder

 

 

And love is a word used
too much and
much
too soon.
~ Charles Bukowski, The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

 

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame

 

 

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

~Author Unknown

 

 

I didn’t say one word to her the whole night. No, I said three words: I love you. She only said one word: Goodbye.
~ Jarod Kintz, Sleepwalking is restercise

 

 

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

~Author Unknown

 

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

 

I love you. If you remember nothing else for the rest of your life, if you fall and hit your head and can’t remember my name, if you get so sick you’re unrecognizable, if you hate me, if you’re on your deathbed and can’t manage to even lift a finger — remember this. I. Love. You. Always. Forever. Eternally.
~ Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

 

 

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.

~Author Unknown

 

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.

 

Plant a good seed in people who have fertile hearts. When you are away, they’ll miss you. When you are coming again, they can’t wait!
~ Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

 

 

Love — a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

~Author Unknown

 

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

 

 

I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. “Is this okay?” I whisper. “Are you okay?”

His reply is anguished. Honest. “I love you.”
~ Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

 

 

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

~Author Unknown

 

 

Saying ‘I’m sorry’ is saying ‘I love you’ with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich

 

 

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

 

 

Never underestimate the power of the words ‘I love you’ or the comfort of a simple hug. Grow your love daily.
~ Elizabeth Bourgeret

 

 

A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay –
Love isn’t love
’Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music

 

 

She drew a swift breath, and let it out on the words: “I love you—more than I’ve ever loved anyone. I love you so profoundly it goes beyond all reason. And I could never let you go—let you be taken from me—that would be the same as letting life itself go, because you are life to me.
~ Stephanie Laurens, Devil’s Bride

 

 

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

~John Bulwer

 

 

I love you. I’ve always loved you. And I’ll go on loving you until I don’t anymore.
~ Katy Regnery, Playing for Love at Deep Haven

 

 

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

~Stephen King

 

 

You’re absolutely insane, that much I’m certain of, but it’s one of the many things I love about you.
~ Ashley Beale, Illusion

 

 

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.

~Jonathan Carroll

 

 

Love is an admiration that comes with patience. Lust is an admiration that comes with impatience. In all, admiration is common but patience is not!
~ Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

 

 

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

~Albert Einstein

 

 

I think that we were both the same star in the beginning of the universe and as the star exploded we drew apart. Our atoms merging into two different bodies, but over time our atoms found a way and found each other again.
~ Michaela Ruiz

 

 

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, “I love you.”

~Robert Brault

 

 

The words I love you, as a unit, are like a knife that only stings once you remove the blade from the relationship.
~ Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

 

 

The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.
~ E’yen A. Gardner, Love Letters

 

 

The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt: I love you.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich

 

 

Avoid long-distance phone calls. Pick up a megaphone today. The words “I love you” never sounded so fresh.
~ Jarod Kintz, My love can only occupy one person at a time

 

 

I don’t want to lose you, I love you, and…and that’s all I’ve got.
As speeches went, it wasn’t great. As feelings went…different story.
~ Kristan Higgins, The Best Man

 

 

Why so many eager to hear the word of “I love you” and so few care to see?
~ M.F. Moonzajer

 

 

Quotes About Women

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Women

Quotations & Citations:

 

Women in love are less ashamed than men They have less to be ashamed of

 

 

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

~H.L. Mencken

 

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
~Robert A. Heinlein

 

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
~Virginia Woolf

 

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue.

~Hermione Gingold

 

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

~James Thurber

 

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
~Joseph Conrad

 

Women speak two languages — one of which is verbal.

~William Shakespeare

 

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

 

If you can make a woman laugh you can make her do anything
If you can make a woman laugh you can make her do anything

 

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

 

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

~Samuel Johnson

 

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~Anaïs Nin

 

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

~William Shakespeare, As You Like It

 

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
~Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her... then don't let her go
If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her… then don’t let her go

 

There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.
~Mae West

 

A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

~Edna Ferber

 

I would always rather be happy than dignified.
~Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse

 

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
~Brigham Young

 

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

~Mae West

 

Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
~George Carlin

 

There’s just something about letting a girl have her way with you.

~A.C. Van Cherub

 

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away.

~Méré

 

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea

 

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
~John Lennon

 

A man chases a woman until she catches him.

~American Proverb

 

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
~Nora Ephron

 

It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

~Tallulah Bankhead

 

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
~Coco Chanel

 

When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.
~Bette Davis

 

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.

~Caroline K. Simon

 

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
~D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

 

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

~Jean de La Bruyère

 

Sure God created man before woman, but then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece
Sure God created man before woman, but then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece

 

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.
~Mark Twain

 

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

~Stephen Stills

 

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
~Elizabeth Peters

 

A woman should be an illusion.

~Ian Fleming

 

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
~Margaret Thatcher

 

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

~Robert Graves

 

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
~Anaïs Nin

 

A woman is like a tea bag You never know how strong it is until its in hot water
A woman is like a tea bag You never know how strong it is until its in hot water

 

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

~Dave Barry

 

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
~Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

 

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.

~Elbert Hubbard

 

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
~Robert Jordan

 

I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.

~Stanley Baldwin

 

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
~Audrey Hepburn

 

The chief excitement in a woman’s life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

~Helen Rowland

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

 

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
~Madonna

 

A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery.

~Diana Stürm

 

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
~Jane Austen, Persuasion

 

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

~Robert Brault

 

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
~Coco Chanel, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel

 

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook

 

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.

~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

 

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
~Neil Gaiman

 

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

~Sigmund Freud

 

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
~Oscar Wilde

 

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

~Alexandre Dumas

 

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

~Coco Chanel

 

I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

~Gilda Radner

 

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
~Virginia Woolf

 

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

~Oscar Wilde

 

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
~Yves Saint-Laurent

 

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

~Elsa Schiaparelli

 

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
~Cher

 

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook

 

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
~Mae West, Wit & Wisdom of Mae West

 

Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.
~Matthew Prior

 

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
~Oscar Wilde

 

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
~Roseanne Barr

 

I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

~Ogden Nash

 

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
~George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways

 

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

~Quentin Crisp

 

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.

~Madeleine K. Albright

 

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
~Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

 

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

~Arnold Haultain

 

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!
~T.D. Jakes

 

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

~Vincent Van Gogh

 

Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
~Khaled Hosseini

 

 

Quotes About Grief and Sorrow

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Grief and Sorrow

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

~George Eliot

 

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

~J.R.R. Tolkien

 

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.... I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

 

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

~Rumi

 

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

~John Taylor

 

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

~José N. Harris

 

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

~Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

 

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

~Henry Maudsley

 

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

 

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life

~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

 

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

~Robert Ingersoll

 

The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

 

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

~Marcus Aurelius

 

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

~Leo Tolstoy

 

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow

 

We have learned so many lessons,
Since our heads were bowed in grief,
That have kept our boat from crashing
On life’s ragged, rocky reef.

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

 

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

~Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

 

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

~Moliere

 

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

 

Come, ye disconsolate, where’er you languish,
Come at the shrine of God fervently kneel;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish—
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

~Thomas Moore

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

 

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

~Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

 

There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

~Lou Reed

 

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

 

It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.

~Colette

 

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

 

Time is a physician that heals every grief.

~Diphilus

 

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

~Veronica Roth, Insurgent

 

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

~Winston Churchill

 

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

~William Shakespeare

 

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

~Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

 

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

~William Shakespeare, Macbeth

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

 

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

~E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

 

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

~Kenji Miyazawa

 

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

 

Grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to reflect us
the walls how to contain us

grief is a house that disappears
each time someone knocks at the door
or rings the bell
a house that blows into the air
at the slightest gust
that buries itself deep in the ground
while everyone is sleeping

grief is a house where no one can protect you
where the younger sister
will grow older than the older one
where the doors
no longer let you in
or out

~Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere

 

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity

 

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

~Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

 

Grief is itself a medicine.

~William Cowper, Charity

 

“It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same.”

~Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

 

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

~Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

 

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason

 

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as
the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

 

Grief is a species of idleness.

~Samuel Johnson

 

Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.

~Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass

 

I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb,
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter’s whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.

~Alexander Pushkin

 

Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally

 

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.

~Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

 

Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I’m heavy, like there’s to much gravity on my heart.

~Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

 

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.

~William Shakespeare

 

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go.

Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

~Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

 

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.  You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

~Samuel Johnson

 

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.

~Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

 

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor

 

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you.  If they speak, you break down.

~Bede Jarrett

 

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.

~Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

 

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

~Kahlil Gibran

 

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

~Faraaz Kazi

 

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.

~Katherine Owen, Not To Us

 

We accept the love we think we deserve

 

Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.

~Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

 

There’s a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality–there’s mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

~Christopher Moore

 

Love is an engraved invitation to grief.

~Sunshine O’Donnell, Open Me

 

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

~James Patterson, Angel