inspirational quotes and sayings about life and love

Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes



The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain



Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ~Author Unknown



It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~Oscar Wilde



It is easier to believe than to doubt. ~E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education



Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy



Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~Francis Bacon



To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana



One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too. ~Author Unknown



Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850



There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916



Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595



Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith



You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? ~Freeman Dyson, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey



It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson



The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem



I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures. ~Earl Warren



Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ~Henry David Thoreau



Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown