attitude sayings and quotes

Live truth instead of professing it. ~Elbert Hubbard



A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving



For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. ~Washington Irving, History of New York



Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~Henri Amiel



If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin



The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law



How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. ~Oscar Wilde



History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. ~Harold MacMillan



Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield



Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. ~Bill Gates



I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. ~Danny McGoorty



They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ~Gardner Dickinson



The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ~A.P. Herbert



Never, never, never give up. ~Winston Churchill



Man is nature's sole mistake. ~W.S. Gilbert



Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France



No man can follow Christ and go astray. ~William H.P. Faunce



Do not nurse a kid who wears braces. ~Author Unknown, "Nursing Mother Principle"



There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere