Some famous Quotes and Proverbs

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
Saint Thomas Acquinas

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Joseph Addison

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Louisa May Alcott

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
Richard Armour  

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James Barrie

When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing
that money can not buy -- to wit, the wag of a dog's tail.
Josh Billings

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love come out of heaven unasked and unsought.
Pearl S. Buck

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burrough

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler  

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

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote

We are accustomed to say that the truth makes men free.
It does nothing of the kind.
It is the knowledge of the truth that creates freedom.
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
Ernest H. Cherrington

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Marquis de Condorcet

Age is a matter of feeling not of years.
George W. Curtis  

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents,and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers and famous preservers of good looks.
Charles Dickens

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Feodor Dostoevsky

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd, American Newspaper Columnist  

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot

Perservance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another!
Walter Elliott

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson