quotes and sayings for facebook statuses

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. ~John C. Maxwell



The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ~Wendell Berry



Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~Lord Byron



Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson



Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~Marcelene Cox



Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ~William Hazlitt



Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal



Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott



Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley



If men had more up top we'd need less up front. ~Jaci Stephen



Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~Antoine Rivarol



The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~Dorothy Nevill



Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun



About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. ~Tom Wilson



If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith



No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb



My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet. ~Bill Kelly



For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. ~William McElcheran



Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ~H.L. Mencken