Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Franklin, Benjamin
I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
- Madden, John
- Madden, John
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.
- J.K. Rowling
- J.K. Rowling
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- Gandhi, Mahatma
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
- Davies, Howard
- Davies, Howard
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
- William Gladstone
- William Gladstone
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
- Southey, Robert
- Southey, Robert
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
- Rod Serling
- Rod Serling
There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
- Hattersley, Roy
- Hattersley, Roy
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
- Stephen King
- Stephen King
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
- W. E. B. du Bois
- W. E. B. du Bois
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
- Socrates
- Socrates
Home is where the heart is.
- Pliny The Elder
- Pliny The Elder
There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
- Enrico Fermi
- Enrico Fermi
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.
- Paine, Thomas
- Paine, Thomas
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
- Martin Van Buren
- Martin Van Buren

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