Below are memorable quotes I gathered from various sources. They all are meaningful and thought-provoking. The list is expanding so check back often for more "quotable" quotes.

 

If you have some to share, please contact me  (don't forget to remove the "-nospam" part from the e-mail address or your e-mail will never reach me) and I'll be very happy to put your quote here.

 

 

William James - "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

 

C. S. Lewis - "We are what we believe we are."

 

Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

 

William Penn - "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

 

Bill Cosby - "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

 

Robert Byrne - "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

 

Henry David Thoreau - "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

 

Frank Lloyd Wright - "The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

 

Thomas Carlyle - "He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."

 

Margaret Thatcher - "I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."

 

Margaret Thatcher - "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

 

Mother Teresa - "Peace begins with a smile."

 

Maya Angelou - "Nothing will work unless you do."

 

Saint Francis de Sales - "Be who you are and be that well."

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

 

Henry David Thoreau - "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

 

Napoleon Bonaparte - "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

 

Napoleon Bonaparte - "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."

 

Aristotle - "What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

 

William Hazlitt - "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

 

Henry Ward Beecher - "The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."

 

Blaise Pascal - "Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. - "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."

 

Anonymous - Click the picture below to view.