Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Free Brotherhood Quotes So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ☛ Bahá’u'lláh

I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning. ☛ Daniel D. Mich

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ☛ Mahatma Gandhi

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. ☛ Booker T. Washington

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. ☛ Martin Luther King, Jr.,

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ☛ Virginia Burden,

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ☛ Kenyan Proverb

I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. ☛ Don Marquis

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. ☛ Faith Baldwin

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ☛ John Donne

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ☛ James Baldwin

In union there is strength. ☛ Aesop

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ☛ Alexander the Great

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. ☛ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ☛ Vietnamese Proverb

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. ☛ James Boswell

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. ☛ Marc Brown

It takes two men to make one brother. ☛ Israel Zangwill

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother. ☛ Astrid Alauda

I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ☛ Maya Angelou

A friend is a brother who was once a bother. ☛ Author Unknown

A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ☛ Author Unknown

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. ☛ Susan Scarf Merrell

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. ☛ Sam Levenson

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. ☛ Dylan Thomas

A brother is a friend given by Nature. ☛ Jean Baptiste Legouve

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three. ☛ Author Unknown

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother – and they’ll settle for a puppy every time. ☛ Winston Pendelton

All for one and one for all My brother and my friend What fun we have The time we share Brothers ’til the end. ☛ Author Unknown

Never make a companion equal to a brother. ☛ Hesiod

It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on! ☛ Author Unknown

A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self. ☛ Marian Sandmaier

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago – the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled. ☛ Jane Mersky Leder

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ☛ Hindu Proverb

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. ☛ Jane Austen,

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply… ☛ Jane Austen,

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. ☛ Antisthenes

The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. ☛ Clara Ortega

After a girl is grown, her little brothers – now her protectors – seem like big brothers. ☛ Astrid Alauda

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ☛ Clara Ortega

Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. ☛ Susan Scarf Merrell

Sibling relationships – and 80 percent of Americans have at least one – outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ☛ Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings,"

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way. ☛ Pamela Dugdale

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face. ☛ St Francis of Assisi

Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas – that’s what my grandma taught me. ☛ Lord Chesterfield

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You’re tearing up the grass." "We’re not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We’re raising boys." ☛ Harmon Killebrew

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. ☛ Garrison Keillor

As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn’t care, but I always knew they looked out for me and were there! ☛ Catherine Pulsifer

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ☛ Dorothy Parker

If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea. ☛ David Belasco

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ☛ Thomas Jefferson

My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. ☛ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ☛ William Strunk, Jr.,

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ☛ Dennis Roth

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ☛ Blaise Pascal, translated from French,

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ☛ Branch Rickey

If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure. ☛ Lord Sandwich

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ☛ Robert Southey

Good things, when short, are twice as good. ☛ Baltasar Gracian,

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books – what other men do not say in whole books. ☛ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. ☛ William Shakespeare,

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? ~ Mary Oliver

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~ Oprah Winfrey

In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine

To live is not breathing it is action. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~ Quoted in

Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living. ~ Author Unknown

For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~ Sanskrit Proverb

The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~ Proverb

To one who has been long in city pent, ‘Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, – to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. ~ John Keats,

Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within. ~ Author Unknown

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~ Erich Fromm

You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air. The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart. Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart. And so, having collected your mind within you, lead it into the channel of breathing through which air reaches the heart and, together with this inhaled air, force your mind to descend into the heart and to remain there. ~ Nicephorus the Solitary

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~ Sylvia Plath

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. ~ William E. Simon

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~ Swedish Proverb

When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. ~ Svatmarama,

A healthy mind has an easy breath. ~ Author Unknown

If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~ Andrea Boydston

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~ Krishnamacharya

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. ~ Giovanni Papini

Smile, breathe and go slowly. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Free Boredom Quotes Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. -✍- Le Duc de Lévis,

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. -✍- Evelyn Waugh

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. -✍- Charlotte Whitton

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I’m leaving. -✍- -Steven Wright

All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. -✍- Blaise Pascal,

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -✍- Dorothy Parker

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. -✍- Mignon McLaughlin,

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. -✍- Bertrand Russell,

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. -✍- Leo Stein

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security. -✍- Eugene Ionesco

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. -✍- Norman Mailer

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. -✍- Jules Renard Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -✍- Thomas Szasz

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. -✍- C.C. Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. ~ C.C. Colton

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~ Le Duc de Lévis,

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~ Evelyn Waugh

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ~ Charlotte Whitton

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I’m leaving. ~ -Steven Wright

All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~ Blaise Pascal,

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Dorothy Parker

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~ Bertrand Russell,

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. ~ Leo Stein

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security. ~ Eugene Ionesco

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. ~ Norman Mailer

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. ~ Jules Renard Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~ Thomas Szasz

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ☛ Frank Moore Colby

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ☛ Gerald Brenan

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. ☛ Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld,

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work. ☛ Lemony Snicket

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ☛ Henry Ford

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ☛ Ambrose Bierce,

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won’t stop talking, but that he won’t let you stop listening. ☛ Author Unknown

Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ☛ Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. ☛ Jules Renard

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn’t a bore to somebody. ☛ J.A. Spender

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ☛ James Russell Lowell

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore… and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience. ☛ John Updike,

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ☛ Bert Leston Taylor, The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ☛ H.L. Mencken

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ☛ William Dean Howells

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ☛ Don Marquis The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. ☛ Maria Edgeworth,

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ☛ Author Unknown

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. ☛ Edward P. Morgan

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ☛ James Bryce

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ☛ Author Unknown

A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ☛ William Styron, interview,

A good book has no ending. ☛ R.D. Cumming

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ☛ Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves,"

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ☛ Charles W. Eliot

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ☛ P.J. O’Rourke

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. ☛ Groucho Marx

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ☛ Groucho Marx

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. ☛ Mark Twain

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ☛ Charles Lamb,

Let books be your dining table, And you shall be full of delights Let them be your mattress And you shall sleep restful nights. ☛ Author Unknown

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ☛ George Robert Gissing

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ☛ Chinese Proverb

There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house. ☛ Joe Ryan

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ☛ William Hazlitt

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ☛ Thomas Helm

A dirty book is rarely dusty. ☛ Author Unknown

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I needresistance to celebrate! ☛ William James

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ☛ Paul Sweeney

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ☛ Oscar Wilde

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. ☛ Franz Kafka

Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ☛ Christopher Morley

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is a pleasure beyond compare. ☛ Kenko Yoshida

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ☛ Jessamyn West

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ☛ E.M. Forster,

TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book. ☛ Author Unknown

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ☛ Logan Pearsall Smith,

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ☛ Bern Williams

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ☛ Henry David Thoreau,

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. ☛ John Aikin

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. ☛ Stéphane Mallarmé

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ☛ James Russell Lowell

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ☛ Helen Exley

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. ☛ Jim Fiebig

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ☛ Elbert Hubbard

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ☛ Mark Twain

A book is to me like a hat or coat – a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off. ☛ Charles B. Fairbanks

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ☛ Author Unknown

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. ☛ Bulstrode Whitlock Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ☛ Henry Ward Beecher

Reading means borrowing. ☛ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg,

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ☛ Jesse Lee Bennett

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ☛ Harper Lee

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. ☛ Washington Irving

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in youthan was there before. ☛ Clifton Fadiman

For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. ☛ Francis Bacon

A book that is shut is but a block. ☛ Thomas Fuller

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. ☛ Thomas Carlyle

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. ☛ G.K. Chesterton

Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. ☛ Forsyth and Rada,

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ☛ Toni Morrison

 Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery. -✍- Martin H. Fischer

Make your feet your friend. -✍- J.M. Barrie

The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time. -✍- Mimi Guarneri,

The trouble with having a body is that people know it’s where you hang out and you don’t get any privacy. -✍- Robert Brault

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. -✍- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. -✍- Mignon McLaughlin,

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. -✍- Friedrich Nietzsche

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. -✍- Julien Offroy de la Mettrie,

Beyond my body my veins are invisible. -✍- Antonio Porchia,

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. -✍- Irene Claremont de Castillejo

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. -✍- Montaigne

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. -✍- Samuel Johnson

The body never lies. -✍- Martha Graham

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. -✍- William Osler

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. -✍- Frank Gillette Burgess

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. -✍- Aldous Huxley

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. -✍- Samuel Butler,

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul’s best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. -✍- Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. -✍- Thomas Jefferson

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. -✍- Jim Rohn

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. -✍- Henry Miller

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. -✍- Henry David Thoreau

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. -✍- Osbert Sitwell

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. -✍- D.H. Lawrence

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. -✍- Buddha

Why should a man’s mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? -✍- Thomas Hardy

 Here’s a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And, whatever sky’s above me, Here’s a heart for every fate. -✍- George Gordon

To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial. -✍- Author Unknown

May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead. -✍- Irish Proverb

May you live all the days of your life. -✍- Irish blessing

A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. -✍- Irish Blessing

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! -✍- Philip Dormer Stanhope

May the sun shine, all day long, everything go right, and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love back to you, and may all the wishes you wish come true! -✍- Irish Blessing

May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you. -✍- Irish Toast

May God grant you many years to live, For sure He must be knowing The earth has angels all too few And Heaven is overflowing. -✍- Irish Blessing

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. -✍- Irish Blessing

May those that love us, love us. And those that don’t love us, May God turn their hearts. And if He doesn’t turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles So we will know them by their limping. -✍- Irish Blessing

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. -✍- Irish Toast

May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too, And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you. -✍- Irish Blessing

May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks May your heart be as light as a song May each day bring you bright Happy hours that stay with you all the year long. -✍- Irish Blessing

May you live to be a hundred years With one extra year to repent. -✍- Author Unknown

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. -✍- Joey Adams

May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire. -✍- Irish Blessing

May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on your windowpane. May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. -✍- Irish Blessing

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night. -✍- Irish Blessing

Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day. -✍- Francis Quarles

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

May you live as long as you want, And never want as long as you live. -✍- Irish Blessing

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through. -✍- Irish Blessing

He no play-da-game. He no make-a-da rules! ~ Earl Butz

The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after, but instead. ~ Author Unknown

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No." ~ Woody Allen

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. ~ H.G. Wells

A birth control pill for men, that’s fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest. ~ Author Unknown

For birth control, I rely on my personality. ~ Milt Abel

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ~ Joan Rivers Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ~ Spike Milligan,

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. ~ Mark Twain,

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time. ~ Arthur Hoppe

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ~ H.L. Mencken,

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins. ~ Chinese Proverb

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. ~ Bertrand Russell

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ~ Dora Winifred Black Russell

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription. ~ Malcolm Potts

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. ~ Louise Slaughter

A crying baby is the best form of birth control. ~ Carole Tabron

Condoms aren’t completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~ Bob Rubin

The best contraceptive is the word no – repeated frequently. ~ Margaret Smith

 God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ✍ Jacques Deval,

Use the talents you possess – for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. ✍ Henry Van Dyke

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. ✍ Alfred

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ✍ Robert Lynd,

A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. ✍ William Blake,

My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ✍ Terri Guillemets

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ✍ Henry David Thoreau

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. ✍ John Burroughs

A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I’m damned if I see how the helican. ✍ Dixon Lanier Merritt

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ✍ Izaak Walton

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers – a living prismatic gem…. it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. ✍ W.H. Hudson,

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ✍ Eric Berne

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ✍ Henry Ward Beecher

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ✍ Rose F. Kennedy

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ✍ Chinese Proverb

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ✍ Joseph Addison,

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ✍ Henry David Thoreau

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ✍ J.G. Holland

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ✍ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ✍ Martin H. Fischer

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ✍ Author Unknown

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ✏ Bill Strickland,

A bicycle does get you there and more…. And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ✏ Bill Emerson, "On Bicycling,"

[T]he bicycle will accomplish more for women’s sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. ✏ Author Unknown

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. ✏ Ann Strong

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ✏ James E. Starrs

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. ✏ J.B. Jackson

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. ✏ Jacquie Phelan

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn’t need a lock. ✏ Author Unknown

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. ✏ Grant Petersen Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice. ✏ Author unknown, from

All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet. ✏ Karl Kron,

What do you call a cyclist who doesn’t wear a helmet? An organ donor. ✏ David Perry

Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things. ✏ William Golding

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? ✏ Flann O’Brien

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. ✏ Iris Murdoch,

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ✏ Elizabeth West

, When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ✏ H.G. Wells

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart. ✏ Diane Ackerman

I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was. ✏ Henry Miller,

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ✏ Mark Twain

Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that – where there’s only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you’d fall over. Your legs wouldn’t support you. ✏ Steve Johnson

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. ✏ Sloan Wilson

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ✏ Albert Einstein

Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ✏ P.J. O’Rourke The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ✏ Christopher Morley

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ✏ John Howard

It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century. ✏ Author Unknown

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life. ✏ Frances Willard,

H.G. Wells,

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. ✏ James Bethea

If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn’t get so many punctures. Earth’s revenge. ✏ Jo Burt

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. ✏ Ivan Illich,

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ✏ Ernest Hemingway

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ✏ John F. Kennedy

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ✏ H.G. Wells

It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they’re out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle’s simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ✏ Gurdon S. Leete

The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. ✏ Amy Webster

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ✏ Louis J. Helle, Jr.,

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ✏ Paul Scott Mowrer,

You never have the wind with you – either it is against you or you’re having a good day. ✏ Daniel Behrman,

I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view – get hot, juicy, red – like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it. ✏ H.G. Wells,

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you’ll crash. ✏ Julie Furtado

Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside. ✏ Jim Malusa

If you ride you know those moments when you have fed yourself into the traffic, felt the hashed-up asphalt rattle in the handlebars, held a lungful of air in a cloud of exhaust. Up ahead there are two parallel buses. With cat’s whiskers, you measure the clearance down a doubtful alley. You swing wide, outflank that flower truck. The cross-street yellow light is turning red. You burst off the green like a surfer on a wave of metal. You have a hundred empty yards of Broadway to yourself. ✏ Chip Brown

He who does not know how to believe, should not know. ✒ Antonio Porchia,

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ✒ Felix Cohen

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ✒ John Lancaster Spalding

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. ✒ Blaise Pascal,

Not… what opinions are held, but… how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. ✒ Bertrand Russell,

When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ✒ Antonio Porchia,

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ✒ Laurens van der Post

Some things have to be believed to be seen. ✒ Ralph Hodgson,

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. ✒ Robert Brault

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. ✒ Arthur Schweitzer,

It is easier to believe than to doubt. ✒ E.D. Martin,

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. ✒ Herbert Agar

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ✒ Bertrand Russell

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ✒ Ezra Pound

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ✒ Orson Scott Card

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ✒ Seneca

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. ✒ Antonio Porchia,

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. ✒ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ✒ Thomas Fuller

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ✒ Ralph Waldo Emerson

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. ✒ Robert Brault

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ✒ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,

Being Yourself Quotes All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. =✒ Ralph Ellison

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. =✒ Boris Pasternak

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. =✒ e.e. cummings

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. =✒ Samuel Johnson,

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. =✒Homer

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. =✒ Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people. =✒ Tom Masson

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. =✒ Shirley MacLaine

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. =✒ Harvey Fierstein

Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. =✒ Henri Frederic Amiel

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. =✒ George Gissing

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. =✒ John Morley

There is just one life for each of us: our own. =✒ Euripides

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. =✒ Benjamin Disraeli

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. =✒ Johann von Goethe

There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. =✒ Mark Rutherford (William Hale White),

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. =✒ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. =✒ François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld,

Man would be "otherwise." That’s the essence of the specifically human. =✒ Antonio Machado

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. =✒ Louis Kronenberger,

Why try to be someone you’re not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. =✒ Robert Brault

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. =✒ Kurt Vonnegut

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. =✒ Oscar Wilde,

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. =✒ James Matthew Barrie

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. =✒ Oscar Wilde,

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. =✒ Judy Garland

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. =✒ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. =✒ David Carradine

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. =✒ Paul Valéry,

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. =✒Robert Brault

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. =✒ Confucius

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? =✒ Fanny Brice

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. =✒ Shakti Gawain

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. =✒ Friedrich Nietzsche

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. =✒ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Originality is… a by-product of sincerity. =✒ Marianne Moore

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. =✒ Samuel Johnson

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. =✒ Author Unknown

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. =✒ Oscar Wilde

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. =✒ Johann von Goethe,

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. =✒ Charles R. Brown

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. =✒ Walter Kaufmann

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. =✒ e.e. cummings

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. =✒ Raymond Hull

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. =✒ William Shakespeare

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. =✒ Robert Brault

We are betrayed by what is false within. =✒ George Meredith

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. =✒ Nathaniel Hawthorne,

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. =✒Oscar Wilde

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. =✒ Dr. Seuss

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. =✒ D.H. Lawrence

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. =✒ Eric Hoffer

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. =✒ Desiderius Erasmus

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person’s point of view. =✒ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. =✒ Julius Charles Hare

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. =✒ André Berthiaume,

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence. =✒ Honoré de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne,"

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. =✒ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. =✒ Samuel Johnson

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. =✒ Irene C. Kassorla

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. =✒ Friedrich Nietzsche You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. =✒ John Mason

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. =✒ Andre Gide