Quotes Archive

~Wonderful Quotes~

"Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday." Author Unknown 

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up." A. A. Milne 

"A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love." Basil 

"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages." George Washington 

"A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after." Peter De Vries 

"No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic." Ann Landers 

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway." Mary Kay Ash 

"Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while." Kin Hubbard 

"You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice." Steven D. Woodhull 

"Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got." Janis Joplin

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it." Ferris Buller, "Ferris Buller’s Day Off"

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." Charles Dickens 

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity...an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." Calvin Coolidge 

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." Abraham Lincoln 

"Love means never having to say your sorry." Jennifer, "Love Story"

"Love is always bestowed as a gift freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love." Leo F. Buscaglia 

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

"Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese." Luis Bunuel

"For some moments in life there are no words." David Seltzer 

"The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you!" Coco Chanel 

"There’s one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s." Clyde Moore 

"Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up." Jesse Jackson 

"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job: it's a depression when you lose yours." Harry S. Truman 

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." John Lennon 

"A good home must be made, not bought." Joyce Maynard 

"Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control." Natasha Josefowitz 

"It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time." Barbara Kingsolver 

"Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." Katherine Mansfield

"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." Patricia Neal 

"Food is the most primitive form of comfort." Sheilah Graham

"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." Marilyn Ferguson 

"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." Rebecca Johnson 

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope." Maya Angelou 

"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain." Author Unknown

"My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual." Phyllis Diller 

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 

'The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us." Ashley Montagu 

"When we have ‘second thoughts’ about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all; just feelings." Sydney J. Harris

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."  Tom Stoppard 

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden." Ruth Stout

"Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring." Denise Austin