Quotes by Authors - Page 44

Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Carl Jung
Sadness is a state of sin.
André Gide
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers
By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Madame Swetchine
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Dr. Edward De Bono
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
Tom Robbins
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Walter Colton
The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day.
George MacDonald
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.
Barry Goldwater
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going some place else.
Jerry Garcid
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
What I tell you three times is true.
Lewis Carroll
Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.
Anonymous
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Thomas Jefferson
Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
Henry David Thoreau
I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Boris Pasternak
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery and every truth easily becomes a lie.
J. F. Stone
Some people handle the truth carelessly Others never touch it at all.
Anonymous
It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.
John Morley
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Too much truth Is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams
No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.
Henry Adams
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Edgar Watson Howe
It was as true said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
Charles Dickens
As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson
Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fuller
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George MacDonald
Truth is immortal error is mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
Samuel Butler
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E B White
Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon.
Samuel Butler
True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Anonymous
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for being brave for risking everything for. And the trouble is if you don't risk everything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
D.H. Lawrence
A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book.
Garrison Keillor
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
Love me without fear Trust me without questioning Need me without demanding Want me without restrictions Accept me without change Desire me without inhibitions For a love so free . . . Will never fly away.
Dick Sutphen
What the heart gives away is never gone.... It is kept in the hearts of others.
Robin St. John
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Anonymous
True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise the flexibility of the child the sensitivity of the artist the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia
Generally by the time you are Real most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all because once you are Real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand.
Margery Williams
There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.
Anonymous
Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.
Livy
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
Izaak Walton
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Livy
Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling