Quotes For Happiness II

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will." -- Dan Millman

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them." -- John Stuart Mill.

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." -- Doris Mortman

"The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while,That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. -- Wilbur D. Nesbit

"A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end." -- OVID (circa AD 8)

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy." -- Gretta Brooker Palmer.

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." -- Agnes Repplier.

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." -- Bertrand Russell

"No joy can equal the joy of serving others." -- Sai Baba

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." -- Albert Schweitzer

"I wish you all the joy that you can wish." -- William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice).

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression." -- Dodie Smith

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house." -- Thackeray.

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain.

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,When life flows along like a song;But the man worth while is the one who will smileWhen everything goes dead wrong. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Quotes For Happiness I

"What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile. -- George Asaf

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." -- Richard Bach.

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." -- Mildred Barthel.

"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor..." -- Henry Ward Beecher

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap." -- William Bennett

"What is the worth of anything,But for the happiness 'twill bring?" -- Richard Owen Cambridge.

"He who sings frightens away his ills." -- Cervantes

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.If you want happiness for a month -- get married.If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else. -- Chinese proverb

"The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days." -- The Bible: Ecclesiasticus.

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more of it remains." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"The supreme happiness of live is the conviction that we are loved." -- Victor Hugo.

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." -- Douglas Jerrold.

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -- Helen Keller

"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be." -- La Rochefoucauld.

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." -- Karl Marx

"To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power." -- Vimalia McClure

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." -- Bernard Meltzer.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get." -- Bernard Meltzer

Faith Quotes and Sayings II

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes

A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author Unknown

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding

Quotations about Faith I

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne

Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth

To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Peace, serenity and reconciliation

Peaceful Garden

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almight God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. --- Abraham Maslow

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, brings you an inner peace and tranquillity
instead of anger and resentment. --- Anon

Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. --- Dalai Lama 1935

Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. --- Abraham Lincoln 1809

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. --- Saint Francis De Sales 1567

Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be. --- Anon

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. --- Serenity Prayer

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! (American Revolutionary War) --- Patrick Henry

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. --- Henry Van Dyke

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. --- Alice Munro 1931

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that we have to erect the ramparts of peace. --- UNESCO Charter

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself. --- Seneca 4BC

Under this tree, where light and shade speckle the grass like a Thrush's breast, here in this green and quiet place I give myself to peace and rest. The peace of my contented mind, that is to me a wealth untold
when the Moon has no more silver left, and the Sun's at the end of his gold. --- W H Davies 1870

Making a More Peaceful World

Beautiful Iris

I can make a more peaceful world. I can plant flowers that grow very high. I can make fresh apple pie. I can laugh, sing, and pray. I can be a kid in every way.
Taylor Michael, First Grade, Age 6, Walden Lake Elementary School, Plant City, FloridaTeacher: Mrs. Battaglia

I can make the world a more peaceful place by being a helpful person. I can travel around the world and ask if they will be helpful too. I will get on a stage and make a big speech. I will say we can make the world a better place.
Senna Marchant, First Grade, Age 7, Vance Elementary School, Vance, AlabamaTeacher: Mrs. Malone

I am a peaceful person when I help someone get up when they fall. I comfort them so they will get better.

I am a peaceful person when I forgive someone if he or she hurts me by saying mean things.

I am a peaceful person when I show love by hugging my Mom and my Dad. Hugs always make people feel better. I try and do the right thing so that everyone is treated fairly. People feel happy when they know someone cares about them.

I am a peaceful person when I try to stop friends from fighting. I see if I can help them solve problems. I try to be nice to everyone.

I am a peaceful person when I tell the truth. When I lie it makes more problems. I share my toys and things with my brother. When we share we have lots of fun.
Adrian DeSilva, Fourth Grade, age 10All Saints Catholic School, Sunrise, FloridaTeacher: Mrs. Vinnie Latcham

I am a peaceful person when I ...

Show love for someone. When I care for maybe just one person I feel peace inside my heart. I don’t care if that somebody that I cared for isn’t going to tell everyone what I did; I do it because I know it’s the right thing to do.

Everything that can make you a peaceful person doesn’t have to be top story news. It can be something small and simple such as helping others. Doing something so small and so simple in your eyes may be something great and large in someone else’s.
Brittany Kelly, Fifth Grade, age 10, Florida College Academy, Temple Terrace, FloridaTeacher: Mrs. Dickens

I am a peaceful person when I help the less fortunate of my community. I donate my time, food, and other items that may help better their lives. I pray that they will one day have a loving and supportive family and friends as I have.

I am a peaceful person when I help others work through difficult situations in their lives. I yearn to make a difference in someone’s life by being sympathetic and loving. Peace starts with everyone accepting, helping, and respecting themselves and others.

By creating peace within ourselves, we are spreading it. Once we begin respecting ourselves and accepting our faults, peace flourishes. When you achieve peace in your life, peace conquers.
Kristen Clark, Eight Grade, Age 14, All Saints Catholic School, Sunrise, FloridaTeacher: Mrs. C. Karrat


I can make the world more peaceful if I can believe inside that I can do it. Showing love to others and caring for them are two ways to make the world more peaceful. Also being kind and helping others is peaceful. Peacefulness is the key to being happy.
Jay Lemmonds, Second Grade, Age 7, Mamie Agnes Jones Elementary School, Baldwin, FloridaTeacher: Ms. R. Hamm

Being a peaceful person is very important to me. When I am at my lake sitting on my dock by myself, it is a time to think and de-stress my mind. When I feel overwhelmed with school work or even my mom, it’s somewhere I can go to look around and breathe.

The reason I find myself so peaceful when I’m on the lake is because the scenery is so breathtaking. With the calm water, quiet surroundings, and huge trees, it’s hard not to be peaceful. With the surroundings on my dock, you almost feel as though you have to whisper, so you don’t disturb things as they are. When I’m there alone, it’s nice because I don’t have to worry about anything. This is why being on my lake makes me a peaceful person.
Alexa Williamson, Eighth Grade, Age 13, Terrace Community School, Tampa, FloridaTeacher: Winnie Wilson Sunquist

I am a peaceful person when I’m with my Mom or Dad. I feel peaceful when I hug my Mom or Dad and they hug me back. I feel at peace when I’m with them because I know that nobody is going to hurt me because they would never allow anything bad to happen to me. It makes me feel warm and safe. When I sit with them watching movies or television I feel calm and completely at peace. When I was small I used to wake up at night because I had a bad dream or was afraid of the dark, I would climb into bed with my parents and I wasn’t afraid anymore. Now I’m in fifth grade, sometimes when things get crazy or I’m upset, getting a hug from my Mom will always make me feel better. My parents help me to be a peaceful person.
Matthew McNabb, Fifth Grade, Age 10Christ Lutheran School, Cape Coral, FloridaTeacher: Belinda West

I make the world a better place when I help others. I make the world a peaceful and careful place when I pray for others, when I be kind to others, and when I help others. I make the world a lot better when I help others up when they are down. Also when I give my money to the poor. The world is peaceful with me because I will let no one down. The world needs me, and I’m there to help. I put a lot of frowns upside down.
Nicholas Dvorak, Third Grade, Age 8, Our Lady of Hope/St. Luke School, Baltimore, MarylandTeacher: Mrs. Morosko

I can make a more peaceful world by sharing peace to everyone or help everyone find a very best friend. I can make the world a better place by being a good example to people by not hitting, disrespecting, not fighting and being peaceful. I can make a difference.
Justin Fish, Third Grade, Age 8Mamie Agnes Jones Elementary School, Baldwin, FloridaTeacher: Ms K. Schmidt


TRTIA Radiant Peace Projects,Thirteenth Annual Peace Education Awards (2003-2004)National Award Winners

Coffee II

"Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy" Craig Parker (Haldir in the Lord Of The Rings movies)

"I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears." Hugo Weaving, Actor ('The Matrix', 'Lord Of The Rings')

"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks" - Sir James Mackintosh

"Decaffeinated Coffee. It's useless warm brown water." Heard on David Letterman

"Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!" "Coffee Cantata" - J.S. Bach

"Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring." U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849

Nancy Astor: "If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee."
Sir Winston Churchill: "And if I were your husband, I would drink it."

"Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too." D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. Talleyrand

Coffee has two virtues. It is wet and it is warm. Old Dutch saying

"Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility." Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

"Coffee is real good when you drink it it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup. " Gertrude Stein

"Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip." Pope Leo XII

"A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time." Leonhard Rauwolf

"The little campfires, rapidly increasing to hundreds in number, would shoot up along the hills and plains, and as if by magic, acres of territory would be illuminous with them. Soon they would be surrounded by the soldiers, who made it an inevitable rule to cook their coffee first." John D. Bilings

"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat." Alex Levine

"Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure." Napoleon Bonaparte

"I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless." Napoleon Bonaparte

"I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course." Harper Lee

"If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage." Sydney Smith

Coffee Quotations I

"Wine is for aging, not coffee." Ken Hutchinson, Starsky and Hutch

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." T. S. Elliot

"After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed." Mark Twain

"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr.

"Make my coffee like I like my men: hot, black, and strong." Willona Wood, Good Times

"Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon." Jilly Cooper

"Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul." Isak Dinesen

"Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery." Joan Frank, 1991

"The discovery of coffee has enlarged the realm of illusion and given more promise to hope." Isidore Bourdon

"If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all." David Letterman

"You make good coffee . . . You're a slob, but you make good coffee." Cher

"See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor." Anthony Quinn

"Why don't you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I'm a little low in sugar and I don't have any cream, but it's real coffee." Barbara Streisand

"I never laugh until I've had my coffee." Clark Gable

"Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca." Ingrid Bergman

"An old Arabic saying."People are kind of like zombies in Hong Kong nowadays. You don't see that glow anymore. In terms of colour Hong Kong looks a bit grey. To counter that, I think we should give out free espresso samples to give people more caffeine; triple espresso with Irish cream syrup, iced! People just need to get a bit more wired." David Wu

"Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!" David Letterman

"If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee." Sydney Smith,1771-1845

"Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." Turkish Proverb

"Decaf coffee is useless, warm, brown water." David Letterman

"Nescafé es no café" Juan Valdez

Quotations on Smile

"Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good. You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood." Robert Alan


"The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end." Robert Alan


"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''Good morning'' at total strangers." Maya Angelou


"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile." Jean Baudrillard


"Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin." Christian Nevell Bovee


"Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you." Les Brown


"Smiles form the channel of a future tear." Lord Byron


"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure." William Ellery Channing


"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?" George Eliot


"Most smiles are started by another smile." Frank A. Clark

Quotations by Mark Twain X

Edoardo Gelli's Protrait of Mark Twain, 1904

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential -- there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain. - Thomas Edison

Quotations by Mark Twain IX

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.


The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.


Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.


A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.


Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.


Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.


The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.


Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.


Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.


Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.


Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Quotations by Mark Twain VIII

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.


All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.


Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.


There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.


To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.


There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.


A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.


There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.


Be virtuous and you will be eccentric

Quotations by Mark Twain VII

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.


To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.


Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.


Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.


There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.


I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.


It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.


Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.


What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.


The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.


It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.


If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Quotations by Mark Twain VI

If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.


The lack of money is the root of all evils.


From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.


Necessity is the mother of taking chances.


The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.


The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.


The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.


Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.


Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.


Pity is for living, envy is for dead.


Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Quotations by Mark Twain V

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.


The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.


Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.


The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.


Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.


A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.


Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.


Be good and you will be lonely.


Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.


Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.


Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Quotations by Mark Twain IV

Mark Twain, America's best humorist

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.


The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.


A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.


I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.


It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.


Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.


I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.


As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!


Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.


The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Quotations by Mark Twain III

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.


Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.


The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.


Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.


If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.


What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it.


Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.


Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.


The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Quotations by Mark Twain II

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.


There is nothing so annoying as a good example!


The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.


We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.


Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Quotations by Mark Twain I

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.


I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea.

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

Quotes on Pets I

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love
we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's
the best deal man has ever made.
- M. Facklam

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike
people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix
love and hate.
- Sigmund Freud

Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast
of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper,
containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which,
if they are especially urgent, are often continued into
the next yard.
- Dave Barry 

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed
a dog.
- Franklin P. Jones

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture
unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the
conversation.
- Fran Lebowitz

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool
of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you,
but he will make a fool of himself too.
- Samuel Butler

Dogs and cats instinctively know the exact moment their
owners will wake up. Then they wake them 10 minutes sooner.
- Unknown

The biggest dog has been a pup.
      - Joaquin Miller

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
    - Jeanne-Marie Roland

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of
the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the
more laughable of the two animals.
    - James Thurber

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he
loves himself.
- Josh Billings

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you
this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've
thought of that!'
- Dave Barry

The more people I meet the more I like my dog
- Unknown

If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't
either.
- Unknown

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy
or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious
afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not
boring - it was peace.
- Milan Kundera

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own,
having a dog makes you rich.
- Louis Sabin

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will
not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog
and a man.
- Mark Twain

I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, 'If you were a
little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,'
and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little
smarter, I wouldn't have to.
- Fred Jungclaus

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag
of his tail.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the
better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the
face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
      - Woodrow Wilson

Quotes on Pets II

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
- Will Rogers

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence,
try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
- Cowboy Wisdom

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking
your face.
- Ben Williams

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation
as the dog does.
- Christopher Morley

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings
with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment
of animals.
- Immanuel Kant

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You
are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful
and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to
be worthy of such devotion.
- Unknown

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
- Andrew A. Rooney

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections,
predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult
standards for people to live up to.
- Alfred A. Montapert

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional
love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
     - Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is
that he doesn't try to find out why.
     - Unknown

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a
Great Dane.
     - Smiley Blanton

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a
weird religious cult. -Rita Rudner

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain
dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few
persons.
-James Thurber

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence
that you are wonderful.
- Ann Landers

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.
-Gene Hill

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn
around three times before lying down.
-Robert Benchley

A dog wags its tail with its heart.
- Martin Buxbaum

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of
dogs.
- Aldous Huxley

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quotations on Failure

"I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."
Hank Aaron


"The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully." Karl Albrecht


"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment." James Allen


"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention." James Baldwin


"We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln." Bruce Barton


"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes." Anne Baxter


"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear." Bhagavad Gita


"No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward." Amar Gopal Bose

Quotations About Life's Purpose III

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
Anonymous

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophanes

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle

Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle

Success is never final. Winston Churchill

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.
Confucius

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius

A good book has no ending.
R.D. Cumming

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
Donald Harington

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James

Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Juvenal

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Buddinton Kelland

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Thomas Paine

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr Robert Schuller

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. Jim morrison

I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brillant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot; I would rather be in a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow than in a sleepy and permanent planet; the proper function of man is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them; I shall USE my time. Jack London

You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love. Russell Schweikart, astronaut contributed by Heath Batz

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. Joe E. Lewis

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

We teach what we live. unknown

"From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth." Thich Nhat Hanh

Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. T.S. Elliot

In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on! Leo Buscaglia

It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one, and not deserve it! Mark Twain

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of another. Winston Churchill

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Cherokee Saying

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson