The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles de Gaulle Category: Curmudgeonesque
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. – G.K. Chesterton Category: Curmudgeonesque
The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. – Alban Goodier Category: Curmudgeonesque
Nothing so absurd as to sit down and wring your hands because all the good which may happen to you in twenty years has not taken place at this precise moment. – Sydney Smith, “A Little Moral Advice: A Fragment on the Cultivation and Improvem Category: Attitude
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. – Amelia Barr Category: inspirational
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. – Charles Inglis Category: Failure
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. – Havelock Ellis Category: Success