Famous Quotes


A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
                                                                  -Chinese proverb


Love, like a river, will cut a new path
whenever it meets an obstacle.
                                          - Crystal Middlemas

Love is like a mustard seed;
planted by God
and watered by men
                           - Muda Saint Michael

There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
                               - George Sand 

When you love someone,
all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

                                       - Elizabeth Bowen 

Love is like a mountain,
hard to climb,
but once you get to the top
the view is beautiful.
                                 - Daniel Monroe Tuttle

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

                                                         - Will Moss


Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

                                                       - William Shakespeare 


Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
                                                                           -Erich Fromm


There is no remedy for love but to love more.

                                                         - Thoreau

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
                                                                                         - Sophocles
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
                                                                               -Friedrich Nietzsche


If you have it [love],
you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it,
it doesn't matter much what else you do have.
                                                        - Sir James M. Barrie 


To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden.
                                                                                           -Goethe


But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
                                                                                            - Thomas Jefferson


If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
                                                                                    -E.M.Foster                                                                                                                                  


Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
                                                                                      Aristotle


Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
                                                        -Albert Camus


The road to a friend's house is never long.
                                                     -Danish Proverb


To me, fair friend, you never can be old 
For as you were when first your eye I eyed, 
Such seems your beauty still. 
                                          -William Shakespeare



A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift.
A friend is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace.
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.
                                          - Jean Kyler McManus



There's nothing as nice as someone who shares,
your laughter, your secrets, your wishes and cares,
someone who's there through your good times and tears,
who stays by your side as your friend through the years.
                                               - Autymn Skillings

But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
and you realize that Friendship
is God's most precious gift.
                                           - Jean Kyler McManus

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; 
Its loveliness increases; it will never 
Pass into nothingness. 
                                                 -John Keats


“It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty”
                                                                                              -Tolstoy


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
                                              -Kahlil Gibran


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
                                            -Albert Einstein

It is better to be beautiful than good, but it is better to be good than ugly. 
                                                                                             - Oscar Wilde

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
       - Albert Camus

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
- Helen Keller
He beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- Virginia Woolf

Love is merely madness... 
                              -William Shakespeare


Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
                                                                       -Albert Einstein


Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. 
                                                                                            -Thomas Jefferson


Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. 
                                                                                              -Danish proverb


This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
- George Bernard Shaw

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle
                                                                                       - Albert Einstein

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
                                                                                                                           -Martin Luther

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
                                                                                       -Theodore Roosevelt


Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
                                                                                 -Charles Dickens


In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
                                                                   -Albert Einstein   



Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
                                                                        -Benjamin Franklin



Success seems to be largely a matter of
hanging on after others have let go.
                                                 -William Feather



A Leader is a dealer in hope.
                                        -Napoleon Bonaparte



... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
                                                                - John F. Kennedy



Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
                                                                -George Bernard Shaw



Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
                                                                                 -Sir Winston Churchill


Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
                                                           -Dale Carnegie
                                                                                                                       

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
                                                                -William  Shakespeare