Anonymous. Quotes

This is the best world that we live in To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow or beg or to get a man's own It is the worst world that ever was known.

A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier."

The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.

Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.

Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare confess it to themselves.

As a rule man is a fool When it's hot he wants it cool When it's cool he wants it hot Always wanting what is not.

The inevitableness the idealism and the blessing of war as an indispensable and stimulating law of development must be repeatedly emphasized.

The artist doesn't see things as they are but as he is.

How beautiful is victory but how dear!

Let's just say he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although judging from those around me I have every right to be.

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.

The ability to sin differs among people. For example a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one.

Today well lived will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

If Noah found himself back on Earth you can bet all he would recognize would be the jokes.

I love a finished speaker I really truly do. I don't mean one who's polished I just mean one who's through.

Remember if God had wanted this to be perfect he never would have had me up here.

I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.

Here's to one of the most beautiful kind thoughtful people I have ever known . . . You are getting more like me every day.

The future is a great land.

The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.

Now is the only time we own give love toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow for the clock may then be still.

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.

The present is all you have for your certain possession.

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday and worries over what might happen tomorrow we have no today in which to live.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

We are here today and gone tomorrow.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.

Some people handle the truth carelessly Others never touch it at all.

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.

A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'