The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. More William James
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. More Paull Klee
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. More Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon. More Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try to eliminate the word SHOULD from your vocabulary. And try doing so without replacing it with OUGHT or YOU BETTER. More unknown unknown
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. More Jalal-Uddin Rumi
People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves. More Brouhours Brouhours
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. More Edward Forster
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. More Vittorio De Sica
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. More Mark Twain
All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience. More Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. More William Cooke Taylor
Gill: You see that filter?
Nemo: Yeah.
Gill: You're the only one small enough to get in and out of that thing. All you have to do swim inside, jam a pebble in the fan, and swim out. Once you do that, this tank is going to get filthier and filthier, and the dentist will have no choice but to clean the tank himself. He'll put us in individual baggies, then we roll out the window, down to the ground, across the street, and into the ocean. It's foolproof! More Cartoons; Finding Nemo [2003] Cartoons; Finding Nemo [2003]
The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. More Walter Scott
[to Rita about Phil]
Larry: Did he actually refer to himself as 'the talent'? More Sandy Gallin
Either move or be moved. More Colin Powell
As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or woman verily become one with the Godhead. More Katha Upanishad
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. More John Haldane
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. More James Beard