Anger Quotes

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Francis Bacon
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Cato
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before
- it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is
poured.
Mark Twain
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Thomas Fuller
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree
and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power
and is not easy.
Aristotle
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as
you wish to be.
Thomas Kempis
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he
respects.

Richard M. Nixon
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Alfred A. Montapert
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling
festive?
Roseanne Barr

Beauty Quotes
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she
wears.
Anne Roiphe
A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
Alex Comfort
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us
forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. Wells
Beauty is less important than quality.
Eugene Ormandy
Beauty is not caused. It is.

Emily Dickinson
Beauty is only skin deep.
Thomas Overbury
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to
talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun
or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
Alicia Machado
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion.
Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Friendship Quotes
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone
calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but
an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your
confidence.
George Washington
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent
arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and
be my friend.
Albert Camus
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those
things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain
nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

Love Quotes
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and
fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already
there?
Richard Bach
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

Success Quotes
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school,
my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to
success.
Dale Carnegie
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently
makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and
escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you
hate.
George Burns
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll
succeed.
Juliana Hatfield
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Wisdom Quotes
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which
is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at
twenty.
Mary Wilson Little
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

Intelligence Quotes
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I
require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer
together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for
their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

Change Quotes
A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
James Levine
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our overconfidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Bruce Barton
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of
ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
Denise McCluggage
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the
cemetery.
Harold Wilson
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters

Time Quotes
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along
so well.
Jonathan Carroll
But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops
does time come to life.
William Faulkner
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mariel Hemingway
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of
sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson
I took some time out for life.
James L. Brooks
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most
men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
My time is now.
John Turner
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these
boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time
management of the entire day.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

Funny Quotes
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx
A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Steven Wright
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't
even buy green bananas."
Claude Pepper
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
Tracey Ullman
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Fred Allen
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'Rourke

Inspirational Quotes
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce A. Myers
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
Donald Cargill
Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Jim Elliot
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb

Nature Quotes
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their
branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their
songs never cease.
John Muir
A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
David Douglas
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a
dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and
mind.
Abraham Lincoln
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons
in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or
Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of
mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Kennedy