Quotes by Authors - Page 136

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
C.S. Lewis
With each sunrise we start anew.
Anonymous
Even if a farmer intends to loaf he gets up in time to get an early start.
Edgar Watson Howe
We sail at sunrise daily "outward bound."
Helen Hunt Jackson
Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
There never was night that had no morn.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun Walks with level step the spray Through his vestibule of Day.
Bayard Taylor
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Alice Hawthorne
I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
Thomas Jefferson
Tut tut child said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
Lewis Carroll
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry Brooks Adams
Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Robert F. Kennedy
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.
Anonymous
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
Henry David Thoreau
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Henry David Thoreau
This world is white no longer and it will never be white again.
James Baldwin
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Michel de Montaigne
There are ten commandments right? Well it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten you're just about top of the class.
Mordecai Richler
To act without rapacity to use knowledge with wisdom to respect interdependence to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
Barbara Ward
In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.
Mark Twain
He should as he list be able to prove the moon is green cheese.
Sir Thomas More
Oh the lovely fickleness of an April day!
W. H. Gibson
No shade no shine no butterflies no bees No fruits no flowers no leaves no birds November!
Thomas Hood
Thirty days hath September April June and November All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight in fine Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Anonymous
If cold December gave you birth The month of snow and ice and mirth Place on your hand a turquoise blue Success will bless what'er you do.
Anonymous
October turned my maple's leaves to gold The most are gone now here and there one lingers Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
T. B. Aldrich
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
The almighty dollar that great object of universal devotion throughout our land seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
Washington Irving
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody Allen
By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late he's too old to enjoy it.
Anonymous
Money won't buy happiness but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan
The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.
Anonymous
Definition of the upper crust: A bunch of crumbs held together by dough.
Anonymous
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.
Doug Larson
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
Oscar Wilde
We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills.
Anonymous
There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.
Jacob Braude
He says he's not broke but he is trying to sell his kidney and corneas.
Wendy Morgan
The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes.
Peter De Vries
When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars: "I would try to find the person that lost it and if he was poor - I'd give it back."
Yogi Berra
How to double your money: Fold it over once and put it back in your pocket.
Jim Dodds
If you like easygoing monogamous men stay away from billionaires.
Rita Rudner
They make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it.
Brian Morgan
When you want really big money you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton.
Anonymous
The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.
Hugh MacLennan
How do you make a million? You start with $900 000.
Stephen Lewis
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
Virginia Woolf
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose
Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Mark Twain
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
Maurice Baring
Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
Max Asnas