Famous Quotes Name L

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

Reality is something you rise above.

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Boldness in itself is genius.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don’t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

"It happens to each according to his consciousness," is the Law of Consciousness.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.

The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.