L. E. Landon Quotes

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

Relaxing, going on vacation, sleeping, having fun when I want, golfing when I want, do whatever I want - I am going to enjoy it.

Justin Bieber isn't gonna be much of a star once his balls drop and his voice changes.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

We are ourselves our happiness.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

I think about the things I control and do them well.

If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.

I didn't have to step up into a leadership role, ... I just had to be there and help out where I could. But this year I had to be more of the man.

Some things you can shake off, some things dig deeper than soccer.

I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

He's confident. He knows what he's good at and he has people around him to help him. (on Freddy Adu)

My decision to return to the MLS is one that I have made with thoughtful consideration.

The first goal is always important.

In my heart of hearts, I thought, if we get a 1-0 win and the team doesn't perform well, that would feel good.

If I look back after 10 weeks and say I really want to stay then maybe I can make that happen. If I say OK it was good, but I’m ready to go then I can go, but for now I’m taking it week by week.

To imagine being in Germany having a home crowd is kind of silly, but we'll take it.

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

The fearless make their own way.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

habit is our idea of eternity.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.