Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
FRANK SINATRA, quoted in And I Quote
"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
— Robert Frost
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
- Thomas Mann
"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
- Mark Twain
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa
“For most of history, ‘Anonymous’ was a woman.”
- Virginia Woolf
@eurocelticyankee,
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
"I have a face made for radio and a voice made for silent film."
Unknown
Sigh.... Fits me too well.
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
In today's paper,
'Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction' Pascal.
• A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
— Gustave Flaubert
@edgarblythe,
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
- Plato
@eurocelticyankee,
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Albert Einstein
"He looked a lot more like a dead man than most dead men look."
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.
@Lustig Andrei,
I wanted to give more than one thumbs up for this one.
Thought is the thought of thought.
from Ulysses by James Joyce
"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance."
— Arthur Rimbaud
"Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun." — Kurt Vonnegut (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater)
