Quotes by American Authors - Page 170

Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Warren G. Harding
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
Mason Cooley
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.
Anne Tyler
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
Barbara Bush
I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.
Helene Iswolsky
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?
Florida Scott-Maxwell
If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble if you can face your God and say "I have done my best " then you are a success.
Ann Landers
I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it "content."
Lauren Bacall
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
Samuel Bowles
France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties.
Thomas Jefferson
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
Henry Ward Beecher
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Pearl Bailey
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
Stephen Sondheim
I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.
Edgar Watson Howe
What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.
Gamaliel Bradford
One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
William Matthews
No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
Corra May Harris
Nor need we power or splendor wide hall or lordly dome the good the true the tender-these form the wealth of home.
Sarah Josepha Hale
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isn't rich.
Mark Twain
True affluence is not needing anything.
Gary Snyder
I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale
When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
Ronald Reagan
Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.
Louis L'Amour
Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared in whatever situation he is therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.
Timothy Dwight
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.
Benjamin Franklin
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Kin Hubbard
Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
Channing Pollock
The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.
Christian Bovee
Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
Hosea Ballou
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.
Walt Whitman
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.
Mary Jane Sherfey
A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.
Hannah Farnham Lee
One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance chaos to order confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast a house into a home a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie