quotes for employees

A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse. ~C.J.J. Mullen



When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. ~Betty Bender



It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~Oscar Wilde



Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures - squirrels, fairies and angels. ~Author Unknown



Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius



We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm



The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. ~John Adams



I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. ~Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan



Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? ~Socrates



The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. ~Saki



If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. ~Lloyd Douglas



I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. ~Richard Steele



I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words. ~Laurence Sterne



Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard



Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas



One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard



The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher



It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. ~Remy de Gourmont



Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ~John Ruskin