Random Quotes
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.e e cummings
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.Alfred North Whitehead
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.Albert Einstein
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
To err is human, to forgive divine.Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit