Quotes by Authors - Page 192

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Ernestine Ulmer
Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
Jerome K. Jerome
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!
Arthur Guiterman
You're only a dog old fellow a dog and you've had your day But never a friend of all my friends has been truer than you alway.
Julian S. Cutler
Every dog is entitled to one bite.
Anonymous
You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damn'd if you do You'll be damn'd if you don't.
Lorenzo Dow
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.
Walter Colton
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
J.G. Holland
Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Mary Baker Eddy
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon
Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth and they never believe me.
Anonymous
When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps when he says perhaps he means no when he says no he is no diplomat.
Anonymous
A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
Anonymous
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Anonymous
The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.
Anonymous
All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
Anatole France
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.
Joseph Ross
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Starhawk
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
Iris Murdoch
You can't have genius without patience.
Margaret Deland
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
Peggy Cahn
No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
Phyllis Bottome
Who longest waits most surely wins.
Helen Hunt Jackson
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.
Katherine Anne Porter
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly many an unbearable situation would become manageable and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.
Claire Weeks
Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
Joanna Field
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
Death is a door life opens.
Adela Rogers St. John
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T.S Eliot
You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller
We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.
Maria Weston Chapman
I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.
Mike Todd
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
Katherine Mansfield
Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.
Alison Cheek
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland
I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....
Isak Dinesen
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
Jacqueline Briskin
The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.
Louis L'Amour
Some days the dragon wins.
Anonymous
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
The devil was sick the devil a monk would be The devil was well the devil a monk was he.
Anonymous
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Miguel de Cervantes
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
Walter Colton
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Thomas Jefferson
He who desires naught will always be free.
E. R. Lefebvre Laboulaye
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Günter Grass
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E B White
Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
Rabindranath Tagore