VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Rigid judgmental opinions can block descent of Spirit's pinions.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.