English Quotations Complete Collection: Volume IX E-Book

Daniel B. Smith

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The main objective of this book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English quotes, so as to enhance your general knowledge and maybe even your life. 
In this book you will find different quotes of renowned people, with regard to motivational, inspirational and even everyday life topics.
Reading the most relevant quotes will help you see the world in a new paradigm, according to author’s life experiences.
It is important to remember that life is a journey and we all learn from others’ experiences; thus we can discover new insights into what life might be all about.
I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers! Good luck! 

Leseprobe

English Quotations

Complete Collection:

Volume IX

-6159 quotations-

From Robert H. Schuller to Terence McKenna

Daniel B. Smith

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Table of contents

Introduction

Quotations by Robert H. Schuller (38)

Quotations by Robert Henri (15)

Quotations by Robert Jordan (27)

Quotations by Robert Kiyosaki (85)

Quotations by Robert Louis Stevenson (87)

Quotations by Robert M. Pirsig (22)

Quotations by Robert Orben (49)

Quotations by Robert Southey (25)

Quotations by Robert Tew (11)

Quotations by Robert William Service (64)

Quotations by Robertson Davies (26)

Quotations by Robin Hobb (15)

Quotations by Robin May Schott (22)

Quotations by Robin Sharma (105)

Quotations by Robin Sacredfire (22)

Quotations by Robin Williams (37)

Quotations by Roderick Terry (16)

Quotations by Rodney Dangerfield (35)

Quotations by Roger Ebert (13)

Quotations by Roland Barthes (19)

Quotations by Rollo May (32)

Quotations by Roman Payne (17)

Quotations by Ron Johnson (9)

Quotations by Ron Kaufman (18)

Quotations by Ronald Reagan (124)

Quotations by Rose Kennedy (9)

Quotations by Roseanne Barr (23)

Quotations by Roy L. Smith (13)

Quotations by Roy T. Bennett (100)

Quotations by Rudyard Kipling (69)

Quotations by Rumi (231)

Quotations by Rush Limbaugh (30)

Quotations by Russell Baker (17)

Quotations by Russell M. Nelson (17)

Quotations by Russell Simmons (19)

Quotations by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (15)

Quotations by Ryan Holiday (21)

Quotations by Ryan Lilly (16)

Quotations by Sai Baba (16)

Quotations by Saint Augustine (65)

Quotations by Saint Francis De Sales (22)

Quotations by Sallust (17)

Quotations by Salman Rushdie (32)

Quotations by Salvador Dali (27)

Quotations by Sam Altman (17)

Quotations by Sam Ewing (8)

Quotations by Sam Keen (16)

Quotations by Sam Levenson (14)

Quotations by Sam Walton (13)

Quotations by Samuel Beckett (27)

Quotations by Samuel Butler (79)

Quotations by Samuel Goldwyn (19)

Quotations by Samuel Johnson (284)

Quotations by Samuel Richardson (26)

Quotations by Samuel Smiles (34)

Quotations by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (51)

Quotations by Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma (31)

Quotations by Sandra Bullock (14)

Quotations by Sanober Khan (19)

Quotations by Santosh Kalwar (28)

Quotations by Sara Sheridan (10)

Quotations by Sarah Addison Allen (17)

Quotations by Sarah Ban Breathnach (24)

Quotations by Sarah Dessen (52)

Quotations by Satchel Paige (11)

Quotations by Saul Bellow (24)

Quotations by Scott Adams (40)

Quotations by Seneca (188)

Quotations by Seth Godin (101)

Quotations by Shakti Gawain (26)

Quotations by Shannon L. Alder (144)

Quotations by Sharon Salzberg (28)

Quotations by Shaun White (16)

Quotations by Shawn Johnson (13)

Quotations by Sherrilyn Kenyon (24)

Quotations by Sheryl Sandberg (26)

Quotations by Shirley MacLaine (19)

Quotations by Shree Rajneesh (22)

Quotations by Shunryu Suzuki (20)

Quotations by Sigmund Freud (90)

Quotations by Simon Sinek (62)

Quotations by Simone De Beauvoir (41)

Quotations by Simone Weil (46)

Quotations by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (15)

Quotations by Socrates (102)

Quotations by Sonya Parker (39)

Quotations by Sophia Amoruso (16)

Quotations by Sophia Loren (19)

Quotations by Sophie Kinsella (17)

Quotations by Sophocles (74)

Quotations by Soren Kierkegaard (94)

Quotations by Spencer W. Kimball (17)

Quotations by Sri Aurobindo (19)

Quotations by Sri Chinmoy (32)

Quotations by Sri Ravi Shankar (21)

Quotations by St. Jerome (20)

Quotations by Stacy London (12)

Quotations by Starhawk (17)

Quotations by Stendhal (19)

Quotations by Stephanie Perkins (12)

Quotations by Stephen Colbert (25)

Quotations by Stephen Covey (72)

Quotations by Stephen Hawking (66)

Quotations by Stephen Jay Gould (15)

Quotations by Stephen King (136)

Quotations by Stephen Leacock (16)

Quotations by Stephen Richards (52)

Quotations by Stephenie Meyer (28)

Quotations by Steve Jobs (86)

Quotations by Steve Maraboli (214)

Quotations by Steve Martin (24)

Quotations by Steve Prefontaine (9)

Quotations by Steve Supple (47)

Quotations by Steven Magee (53)

Quotations by Steven Mason (34)

Quotations by Steven Pinker (29)

Quotations by Steven Pressfield (20)

Quotations by Steven Redhead (32)

Quotations by Steven Wright (74)

Quotations by Stevie Wonder (12)

Quotations by Sun Tzu (75)

Quotations by Sunday Adelaja (167)

Quotations by Susan B. Anthony (20)

Quotations by Susan Cain (23)

Quotations by Susan L. Taylor (12)

Quotations by Susan Mitchell (11)

Quotations by Susan Sontag (57)

Quotations by Suzanne Collins (22)

Quotations by Suze Orman (26)

Quotations by Suzy Kassem (79)

Quotations by Swami Sivananda (11)

Quotations by Swami Vivekananda (91)

Quotations by Sydney J. Harris (29)

Quotations by Sydney Smith (26)

Quotations by Sylvester Stallone (15)

Quotations by Sylvia Plath (51)

Quotations by T. D. Jakes (17)

Quotations by T. S. Eliot (78)

Quotations by T. F. Hodge (34)

Quotations by Tacitus (22)

Quotations by Tahir Shah (24)

Quotations by Tallulah Bankhead (12)

Quotations by Tara Brach (15)

Quotations by Tariq Ramadan (21)

Quotations by Taylor Swift (65)

Quotations by Ted Turner (15)

Quotations by Temple Grandin (15)

Quotations by Tennessee Williams (54)

Quotations by Tenzin Palmo (16)

Quotations by Terence McKenna (51)

Conclusion

Introduction

The main objective of this book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English quotes, so as to enhance your general knowledge and maybe even your life.

In this book you will find different quotes of renowned people, with regard to motivational, inspirational and even everyday life topics.

Reading the most relevant quotes will help you see the world in a new paradigm, according to author’s life experiences.

It is important to remember that life is a journey and we all learn from others’ experiences; thus we can discover new insights into what life might be all about.

I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers!

Good luck!

Quotations by Robert H. Schuller (38)

Robert H. Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker and author. Here are some representative quotations by Robert H. Schuller:

“A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!”

“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

“Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.”

“As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.”

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”

“Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.”

“Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.”

“For every mountain there is a miracle.”

“Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.”

“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.”

“God's delay is not God's denial.”

“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”

“If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.”

“Impossible situations can become possible miracles.”

“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”

“It takes guts to get out of the ruts.”

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

“Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.”

“Life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.”

“Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.”

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”

“Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.”

“On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.”

“Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.”

“Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.”

“Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.”

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”

“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”

“There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.”

“Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.”

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

“Turn your scars into stars.”

“We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.”

“What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.”

“When you've exhausted all possibilities, remember this you haven't.”

“Winning starts with beginning.”

“You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.”

Quotations by Robert Henri (15)

Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher. He studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against American academic art. Here are some representative quotations by Robert Henri:

“A weak background is a deadly thing.”

“Art is, after all, only a trace. Like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.”

“Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.”

“Color is only beautiful when it means something.”

“Do whatever you do intensely.”

“Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.”

“If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.”

“It takes wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.”

“Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.”

“Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.”

“Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.”

“There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.”

“To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.”

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”

“Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.”

Quotations by Robert Jordan (27)

Robert Jordan was an American author of epic fantasy. Here are some representative quotations by Robert Jordan:

“A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.”

“A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.”

“A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.”

“A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.”

“A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.”

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”

“Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.”

“Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”

“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”

“It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.”

“It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.”

“It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

“Men forget, but never forgive women forgive, but never forget.”

“Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”

“Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.”

“Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.”

“The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.”

“The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse.”

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

“The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.”

“The wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses.”

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”

“To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn and women into cats in a sack.”

“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”

Quotations by Robert Kiyosaki (85)

Robert Kiyosaki is an American businessman and author. Here are some representative quotations by Robert Kiyosaki:

“A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.”

“A smart entrepreneur knows they can not run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.”

“A well-trained and dsciplined investor can gain much higher returns with much less risk and less money, but it takes leverage and leverage requires you to educate yourself and to use your mind wisely.”

“All depends on how determined we are to be successful.”

“Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.”

“Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.”

“Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.”

“Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.”

“Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.”

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”

“Don’t work for money; make it work for you.”

“Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.”

“Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.”

“Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.”

“Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it.”

“Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.”

“Financial freedom is freedom from fear.”

“Financial independence is about having more choices.”

“Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

“French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.”

“I often meet people who are too busy to take care of their wealth. And there are people too busy to take care of their health. The cause is the same. They're busy, and they stay busy as a way to avoid something they do not want to face.”

“I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.”

“If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.”

“If you are a person with big dreams and would love to support others in achieving their big dreams, then the network marketing business is definitely a business for you. You can start your business part-time at first and then as your business grows, you can help other people start their part-time business. This is a value worth having - a business and people who help others make their dreams come true.”

“If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.”

“If you do not like real estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it.”

“If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.”

“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”

“If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.”

“In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.”

“In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.”

“Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.”

“Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.”

“Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.”

“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.”

“It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.”

“It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.”

“It's through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make.”

“I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.”

“Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich.”

“Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.”

“More important than the how we achieve financial freedom, is the why. Find your reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.”

“Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.”

“Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth.”

“Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.”

“One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.”

“People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.”

“People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency.”

“Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.”

“Quitting is the easiest thing to do.”

“Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.”

“Simply put, good debt is debt that puts money in your pocket every month, and bad debt is debt that takes money from your pocket every month.”

“Skills make you rich, not theories.”

“So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.”

“Take risks, be bold and let your genius convert your fear into power and brilliance.”

“Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.”

“Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.”

“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”

“The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.”

“The most important work in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.”

“The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they use their time.”

“The problem with having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich.”

“The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.”

“The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.”

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

“The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.”

“The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.”

“There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.”

“There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it.”

“To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing Winning and losing are just part of the game.”

“To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.”

“Toughness is not being a bully, it's having a backbone.”

“We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.”

“When people are lame, they love to blame.”

“When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.”

“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”

“When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.”

“When your own mind tells you to quit, you must ignore your negative thoughts and press on.”

“Who has to be financially smarters with money? Someone who works hard for money or someone who has money work hard for him?”

“You can always quit, so why quit now.”

“You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.”

“You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.”

“Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely.”

“Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.”

Quotations by Robert Louis Stevenson (87)

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. Here are some representative quotations by Robert Louis Stevenson:

“A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.”

“A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

“A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.”

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

“An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.”

“And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.”

“Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river — There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.”

“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

“Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore, Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn, Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn, Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

“Everyone lives by selling something.”

“Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”

“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”

“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.”

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudence of the brawling world reach you no more.”

“From time to time, talk becomes effective, conquering like war, widening like boundaries of knowledge like an exploration.”

“Good talk is like an impromptu piece of acting where each should represent himself to greatest advantage.”

“How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing, Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all, Over the countryside - Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown - Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!”

“I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.”

“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”

“I saw you toss the kites on high, And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass - O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!”

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”

“Ice and iron cannot be welded.”

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”

“If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel.”

“In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.”

“It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.”

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”

“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”

“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.”

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”

“LOVE - what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair. Life - what is life? Upon a moorland bare, To see love coming and see love depart.”

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”

“Marriage is like life, it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

“May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus' sake. Amen!”

“Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.”

“Natural talk like plowing, should turn up a large surface of life, rather than dig mines.”

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

“Old is the tree and the fruit good, Very old and thick the wood. Woodman, is your courage stout? Beware! the root is wrapped about, Your mother's heart, your father's bones; And like the mandrake comes with groans.”

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

“Passion... like other violent excitements...throws up not only what is best, but what is worst and smallest, in men's characters.”

“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”

“Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”

“Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.”

“So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.”

“Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

“Teacher, tender, comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life, Heart-whole and soul-free, The august father, Gave to me.”

“The cruellest lies are often told in silence.”

“The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.”

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.”

“The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ.”

“The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But Over the Hills and Far Away.”

“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”

“The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.”

“The rain is falling all around, it falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here, and on the ships at sea.”

“The secret to happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?”

“The unknown always seems sublime.”

“The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.”

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

“There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.”

“There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”

“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good. One person I have to make good: myself.”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.”

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

“To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.”

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”

“To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside.”

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.”

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“What hangs people… is the unfortunate circumstance of guilt.”

“When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.”

“When you first girded for this arduous track, and under various whimsical pretexts endowed another with your damned defects, could you have dreamed in your despondent vein.”

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“With a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.”

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”

“You can't begin and then stop. If you begin, you must keep on beginning: that's the truth. No rest for the wicked.”

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”

“Youth is wholly experimental.”

Quotations by Robert M. Pirsig (22)

Robert M. Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher. Here are some representative quotations by Robert M. Pirsig:

“A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.”

“Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.”

“Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.”

“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”

“If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.”

“If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.”

“If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.”

“One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient; Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.”

“Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the centre of it all.”

“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”

“Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.”

“Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.”

“That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.”

“The more you read, the more you calm down.”

“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”

“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.”

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.”

“To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”

“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”

“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”

“What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness. Familiarity can blind you too.”

“You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other.”

Quotations by Robert Orben (49)

Robert Orben is an American professional comedy writer, although he also worked as a magician. Here are some representative quotations by Robert Orben:

“A compliment is verbal sunshine.”

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success.”

“A nervous breakdown shows you care.”

“A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.”

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”

“Actually, they don't call them mechanics anymore. Automotive Diagnosticians! They've got the white gown; the three buttons on the shoulder; 'Don't touch me— I'm sterile!'”

“Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.”

“Behind every kid who completes four years of college there stand two parents who are also graduating—magna cum bankrupt.”

“Did you hear about the automobile mechanic who bought a hospital and he's making a fortune? If you bring in your wife for an operation, they give you a loaner.”

“Do your kids a favor-don't have any.”

“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”

“Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.”

“For a real quick energy boost, nothing beats having the boss walk in.”

“I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.”

“I happen to know that Florida is now working on something that could revolutionize its real estate market. It's an alligator that eats crabgrass.”

“I just went on a great diet. There are only three things you can't put in your mouth— a knife, a fork, and a spoon!”

“I lost so much weight, people kept looking at my ankles. Why not? That's where my pants were.”

“I talked to a wild group last night. I knew it the minute someone yelled "Louder!" during the silent meditation.”

“I think all auto mechanics go to the same school.”

“I won't comment on the weather we had. Did you know they named a wine after the first bird who ever flew down to Florida for the winter? Cold duck.”

“If I were an astronaut, I'd be one of the backup pilots. The minute they tried to put me in a spaceship, would I back up!”

“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”

“I'm so chicken, you ain't gonna see me on the moon until I can get there in something civilized— like an elevator!”

“In all fairness, he did warn me. I asked him if you could get along in Florida on sixty-five dollars a day. He said, 'If you're an alligator, yes. If you're a tourist, no.'”

“In our house the only thing that gets recycled is the flu.”

“Individuality' is the key to success.”

“Isn't it amazing? We go all the way to the moon to pick up rocks—and here on Earth, we don't even pick up beer bottles!”

“It isn't easy being an automobile mechanic. Let's face, it how would you like to stand in the middle of a garage knowing that every car that comes through that door is defective?”

“It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.”

“I've never had any luck with pets. I once had a turtle I had to send to obedience school.”

“Let's face it, to you it may be your motor that's knocking. To a mechanic, it's opportunity.”

“Maybe you know my boss. He's the one who expects a maximum effort for a minimum wage.”

“My wife has come up with a very simple device to make me lose weight. It's called a food bill.”

“Never raise your hand to your child; it leaves your midsection unprotected.”

“Older people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.”

“Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.”

“Remember when it was Superman who was faster than a speeding bullet? Now it's anybody who gets out of Central Park.”

“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true.”

“The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.”

“The flu season is when you start off in the morning with a light heart and end up in the evening with a heavy nose.”

“The way people pamper their pets is ridiculous. Have you heard the latest? Elevator paws for dachshunds.”

“There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.”

“There is only one problem in taking a winter vacation in Florida. You spend two weeks getting a deep, rich, golden tan— then they hand you the bill and you're pale again.”

“There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.”

“These fellas have so much authority; so much poise; so much dignity — it makes you almost proud to have their fingerprints on your seat covers!”

“This is the season when you're faced with the problem: What do you say to the person who has everything— and he's breathing on you?”

“Thomas Edison said that genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. I dunno. I hate to think of anyone that sweaty handling electricity.”

“We have all kinds of pets. We have birds who specialize in singing; we have dogs who specialize in barking; we have cats who specialize in meowing, and we have turtles who specialize in dying.”

“You know what really shakes you up during the flu season? When you tell the doctor your symptoms and he starts backing away.”

Quotations by Robert Southey (25)

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school and Poet laureate from 1813 until his death. Here are some representative quotations by Robert Southey:

“A boat approach'd the wall, and eager to the welcome aid they crowd for safety all.”

“A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten of six weeks.”

“A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.”

“A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness.”

“Ah linger not to hear the song genius avenge thy children's wrong.”

“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.”

“By writing much, one learns to write well.”

“Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.”

“Filled the guests with delight as she welcomed them in with a smile.”

“Green moss shines there with ice encased; The long grass bends its spear-like form; And lovely is the silvery scene When faint the sun-beams smile.”

“Hear genius hear thy children's cry not always should thou love to brood.”

“In case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, no captain can do wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

“Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”

“My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.”

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.”

“Show me a man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Beware of those who are homeless by choice.”

“The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.”

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

“The true one of youth’s love, proving a faithful help-meet in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.”

“They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity.”

“To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.”

“What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails, And such are little boys made of.”

“Where seas of sand toss their hot surges high nor genius should the midnight song.”

Quotations by Robert Tew (11)

Robert Tew is an American author. Here are some representative quotations by Robert Tew:

“Appreciate what you have while you still have it because one day you won't.”

“Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter and you will begin to shine brighter. Don't give up.”

“Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.”

“If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self.”

“If they don't respect, appreciate and value you, then they don't deserve you.”

“Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.”

“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

“Some won't appreciate you no matter how much you do for them. Release yourself. Go where you're appreciated and understood.”

“Sometimes walking away has nothing to do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize out worth and value, but because we finally realize our own.”

“The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up.”

“Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming.”

Quotations by Robert William Service (64)

Robert William Service was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called “the Bard of the Yukon”. Here are some representative quotations by Robert William Service:

“A failing for profanity, So to delight the dears I try, And often in the past, In fabricating sonnets I, Have fulminated: 'Blast!'”

“A Poet of Profanity! For I've been known with vulgar slang, To stoke the Sacred Fire, And even used a word like 'hang', Suggesting ire.”

“A skinny, starving stray; it looked so pitifully small, a fluff of silver grey.”

“A smiling little orchard and a big potato patch.”

“Alas! though bards make verse sublime, And lines to quote, It takes a fool like me to rhyme, About a goat.”

“All other friends may come and go, All other friendships fail; But these, the friends I've worked to win, Oh, they will never stale; And comfort me till Time shall write, The finish to my tale.”

“Although from godly grace I fall, For sensed with sin my every act is, 'Twere better not to preach at all, Then I would have no need to practice. So Sabbath day I'll sneak away, And though the Church grieve my defection, In sunny woodland I will pray: God save us from Perfection!”

“An no, I never, never swear; Profanity don't pay; To cuss won't get you anywhere.”

“And her thin little arms were stretched to you, With a yearning joy that they never knew. She woke from the darkest dark to see, Like a heavenly vision, that Christmas Tree.”

“Brother, you were born too late; Human life is but a breath. Men delve deep, where darkly wait.”

“Carefree to be, as a bird that sings; To go my own sweet way; To reck not at all what may befall, But to live and to love each day.”

“Each sunny day upon my way, A goat I pass, He has a beard of silver grey, A bell of brass.”

“E'en as a toper from the dram-shop reeling, Sees in his garret's blackness, dazzling fair, All that he might have been, and, heart-sick, kneeling, Sobs in the passion of a vast despair: So my ideal self haunts me always - When the accounting comes, how shall I pay?”

“Gather around me, children dear; The wind is high and the night is cold; Closer, little ones, snuggle near; Let's seek a story of ages old; A magic tale of a bygone day, Of lovely ladies and dragons dread; Come, for you're all so tired of play, We'll read till it's time to go to bed.”

“God love her! how it cheered me then, To see her there so brave and pretty; So she with needle, I with pen, We slaved and sang above the city. And as across my streams of ink, I watched her from a poet's distance, She stitched and sang… I scarcely think, She was aware of my existence.”

“Grand-daughter of the Painted Nails, As if they had been dipped in gore, I'd like to set you lugging pails, And make you scrub the kitchen floor. I'm old and crotchety of course, And on this point my patience fails; I'd sue my old girl for divorce, If she showed up with painted nails.”

“Great Grandfather was ninety-nine, And so it was our one dread, That though his health was superfine, He'd fail to make the hundred. Though he was not a rolling stone, No moss he seemed to gather: A patriarch of brawn and bone, Was Great Grandfather.”

“He festered in a Marseilles slum, A starving genius, god-inspired. You'd take him for a lousy bum, Tho' poetry of paint he lyred, In dreamy pastels each a gem:… How people laughed at them!”

“His crowded life of God's good giving, No man has relished more than I; I've been so goldarned busy living, I've never had the time to die. So busy fishing, hunting, roving, Up on my toes and fighting fit; So busy singing, laughing, loving, I've never had the time to quit.”

“I diagnosed with weeping that on strychnine it had fed and so I bought a hamburg steak.”

“I do not swear because I am, A sweet and sober guy; I cannot vent a single damn, However hard I try.”

“I go to the shop every morning; I work with my needle and thread; Silk, satin and velvet adorning, Then luncheon on coffee and bread. Then sewing and sewing till seven; Or else, if the order I get, I toil and I toil till eleven - And such is the day of Babette.”

“I have a compact to commune, A monthly midnight with the Moon; Into its face I stare and stare, And find sweet understanding there.”

“I have no brief for gambling, nay, The notion I express, That money earned 's the only way, To pay for happiness. With cards and dice I do not hold; By betting I've been bit: Conclusion: to get honest gold, You've got to sweat for it.”

“I love the cheery bustle, Of children round the house, The tidy maids a-hustle, The chatter of my spouse; The laughter and the singing, The joy on every face: With frequent laughter ringing, O, Home's a happy place!”

“I watched them in a bleary daze of bitterness and pain, For oh, I missed the cheery blaze of vodka in my brain.”

“Ignorance is bliss.”

“In all of spangled space, but I, To stare moon-struck into the sky; Of billion beings I alone, To praise the Moon as still as stone.”

“I've half a hundred men to boss, And take my job to heart; You'll never find me at a loss, So well I play my part. My voice is hard, my eye is cold, My mouth is grimly set; They all consider me, I'm told, A bloody martinet.”

“Little Brother, how I pray, You may sanctuary find, Peoples of the world succumb… Fly, poor fools, the wrath to come!”

“My Boss keeps sporty girls, they say; His belly's big with cheer.”

“My brother is a man of weight; For every civic plum, He grabs within one pie of state, While I am just a bum.”

“My brothers all are proud of purse, But though my poverty I curse, I would not for a diadem, Exchange my lowly lot with them: A garret and a crust for me, And reams and dreams of Poetry.”

“My dentist had a powerful wrist, He tries and tries in vain, To make me grunt or groan or squeal, With probe or rasp or drill.”

“O I will watch the maiden Moon, Dance on the sea with silver shoon; But with the Queen Moon I will keep, My tryst when all the world's asleep.”

“Of all the meals that glad my day, My morning one's the best; Purveyed me on a silver tray, Immaculately dressed. I rouse me when the dawn is bright; I leap into the sea, Returning with a rare delight, To honey, toast and tea.”

“Oh God! The beauty of the blow, When I will blast his life; When I will laugh and let him know, My mistress is his wife. Today a doormat for his feet, He loves to see me squirm, Tomorrow,--how revenge is sweet! The turning of the worm.”

“Oh sure I could go on — but gee! it's rough, To be a pork-and-beaner at the best; To beg for bouts, yet getting not enough, To keep a decent feed inside my vest; To go on canvas-kissing till I come, To cadge for drinks just like a Bowery bum.”

“Oh, it is good afar to roam, And seek adventure in strange lands; Yet oh, so good the coming home, The velvet love of little hands.”

“On steak and kidney pie washed down with sparkling cider.”

“Open wide the window; there's a lark a-singing; there's a glad lark singing in the evening sky.”

“Pines against the sky, Pluming the purple hill; Pines . . . and I wonder why, Heart, you quicken and thrill? Wistful heart of a boy, Fill with a strange sweet joy, Lifting to Heaven nigh - Pines against the sky.”

“She’s as light as any fairy; she’s as pretty as a peach; She’s mistress of the witchcraft to beguile; There’s sunshine in her manner, there is music in her speech, And there’s concentrated honey in her smile.”

“Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare.”

“Sitting in the dental chair, Don't you wish you weren't there, Well, your cup of woe to fill, Just think of his infernal bill.”

“Sitting in the dentist's chair, Wishing that I wasn't there, To forget and pass the time, I have made this bit of rhyme.”

“Slouching along in smelly rags, a bleary-eyed, no-good bum; A knight of the hollow needle, pard, spewed from the sodden slum.”

“So feathered friend, until the end you may divide my den, And make a mess, which (more or less) I clean up now and then. But I prefer the doom to share of dead and gone compeers, Than parrot be, and live to see ten times a hundred years.”

“So I'll go back to Tennessee, And they will ask: "How have you spent your Brief holiday in gay Paree?”

“Some poet chap had labelled man the noblest work of God: I see myself a charlatan, a humbug and a fraud. Yea, 'spite of show and shallow wit, an sentimental drool, I know myself a hypocrite, a coward and a fool.”

“Stupidity, let me be blind, To all the ills of humankind; Fill me with simple sentiment, To walk the way my father went; School me to sweat with robot folk, Beneath the yoke.”

“That stairway grand of marbled might, The most majestic in the land, In statured splendour, flight on flight.”

“They hospitably welcomed it and at the food rack gave it place.”