/** * @name FactOfTheDay * @author Nyx & Xenon Colt * @authorId 270848136006729728 * @version 2.0.0 * @license MIT * @description Gives you a (useless) random fact, or qoute of the day each time you login to discord. * @website https://www.fenriris.net/ * @source https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SrS2225a/BetterDiscord/master/plugins/FactOfTheDay/FactOfTheDay.plugin.js * @updateUrl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SrS2225a/BetterDiscord/master/plugins/FactOfTheDay/FactOfTheDay.plugin.js */ const config = { main: "FactOfTheDay.plugin.js", authorId: "270848136006729728", contributors: [ { name: "Xenon Colt", discord_id: "709210314230726776", github_username: "xenoncolt", } ], info: { name: "FactOfTheDay", authors: [ { name: "Nyx & Xenon Colt", github_username: "SrS2225a", link: "https://github.com/SrS2225a" } ], version: "2.0.0", description: "Gives you a (useless) random fact, or qoute of the day each time you login to discord.", github_raw: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SrS2225a/BetterDiscord/master/plugins/FactOfTheDay/FactOfTheDay.plugin.js" }, changelog: [ { title: "New Features & Improvements", type: "added", items: [ "Refactor the plugin structure", "Now fact and quote will be shown in a notice", ] }, // { // title: "Fixed Few Things", // type: "fixed", // items: [ // "Fixed `Change status to :` UI problem", // "Fixed problem when discord force closes where it doesn't set your status back to online", // ] // }, // { // title: "Changed Few Things", // type: "changed", // items: [ // "Changed settings UI", // ] // } ], settingsPanel: [ { type: "switch", id: "dailyRequests", name: "Daily Requests", note: "When enabled, the plugin will only get a new fact of the day once a day. When disabled, it will get a new fact of the day every time you login.", value: true }, { type: "radio", id: "requestsType", name: "Request Type", options: [ { name: "Fact", value: "fact" }, { name: "Quote", value: "quote" }, ], note: "Choose the category of the daily message", value: "fact" } ] }; let defaultSettings = { dailyRequests: true, requestsType: "fact", } const { Webpack, UI, Logger, Data, Utils } = BdApi; // === Embedded Fact and Quote Data === const facts = [ { "fact": "Umar Zahir built both an island of trash and an island of hope.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Zahir_(politician)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Kanye West originally wrote the chorus of \"Gold Digger\" from a female point of view.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 2019, Paul Cosford and his colleagues found that lung cancer was more common in non-smokers than was generally thought.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cosford", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The video game Pyongyang Racer was developed in North Korea for Koryo Tours, which organises tours to the country.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Racer", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "AI expert Tess Posner resigned her role as a CEO in order to concentrate on her music career.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_Posner", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Syracuse House on Clinton Square was described by Charles Dickens as \"the worst inn that ever was seen\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Square", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Zimbabwean colonel Flint Magama, who was responsible for the killing of opposition politician Njini Ntuta, later received the country's highest award for military bravery.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Magama", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "At various secondary schools and universities, students eat entire heads of lettuce as quickly as possible.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce_club", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The BP Building features Europe's first example of \"suspended construction\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/BP_Building_(Antwerp)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Da'ud, the heir apparent of the last Fatimid caliph, spent almost his entire life imprisoned by the succeeding Ayyubid dynasty.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%27ud_ibn_al-Adid", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Encanto's Mirabel is the first Disney heroine to wear glasses.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabel_Madrigal", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Siegfried Goldschmidt translated Kalidasa's epic poem S\u00eatubandhu from Prakrit into German.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Goldschmidt", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The headless body of Thomas Aquinas was boiled, possibly in wine, after his canonization.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "After going off the air due to financial issues, the control room of Texas radio station KBIL was set ablaze by an arsonist.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/KBIL_(Texas)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Elena Guseva's training as a choral conductor helped her analyse the score when playing Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Vienna State Opera.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Guseva", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The vegan-food brand Squeaky Bean produces food that does not contain beans.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Bean", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The double florin , a British coin, was criticised both for being too close in size to the crown and because the crown on it was too small.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_florin", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "When journalist Bill Fleischman was surprised by a radio advertisement about his next-day article, he just sat down and wrote it.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Fleischman", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Port of Shahid Rajaee is responsible for 85 percent of the total loading and unloading carried out at Iranian ports.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Shahid_Rajaee", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Wilhelm Colenbrander and two others died on camera during the filming of the 1918 war film Symbol of Sacrifice.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Wilhelm_Colenbrander", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Part of the funding for the Columbus Monument in Syracuse, New York, was provided by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Circle_(Syracuse,_New_York)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 2014, Trinidadian sprinter Deon Lendore won the highest award in National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field while at Texas A&M University.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Deon_Lendore", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Historia narodu polskiego, the first modern history of Poland, was never finished but was highly influential on emerging Polish historiography.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_narodu_polskiego", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "A pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a jockstrap.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Minshew", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Jupiter is sometimes called a \"cosmic vacuum cleaner\" because of frequent impacts from asteroids and comets .", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "When baseball outfielder Brick Eldred was suspended by his team for refusing to pay a fine, another team acquired him, paid the fine, and gave him a raise.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Eldred", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Tana Tidung Regency is the smallest regency by land area in North Kalimantan and has the province's lowest poverty rate.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tana_Tidung_Regency", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Michael Koomen was shot and killed while trying to calm the situation.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michael_Koomen", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Jackie Kennedy teased former love interest Declan Costello that a 1955 double date involving them and their spouses had almost broken up the Kennedys' marriage.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "David Bowie's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Businessman and activist Matthew Glover's charity challenged Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Glover", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes donated a hunting rifle from Theodore Roosevelt to help defend Britain during the Second World War.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Committee_for_the_Defense_of_British_Homes", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Smithsonian archivists are rediscovering the works of photography pioneer Louisa Bernie Gallaher after they were misattributed to her boss.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Doctor Who serial The Chase was to feature the Beatles dressed as old men, performing as part of a fictional 50th-anniversary concert, but the idea was rejected by their manager.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Garry Kasparov thought that a move by chess computer Deep Blue demonstrated its \"superior intelligence\", but the move was in fact caused by a software bug.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Albert Freedman was the first person indicted in the 1950s quiz show scandals.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Freedman", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Dan Lanning, who coached his final game at Georgia in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, will face Georgia in his first game as the new head coach at Oregon.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Lanning", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Paul Gutama Soegijo travelled from Germany to Indonesia to study the gamelan instruments of Java for eight years.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gutama_Soegijo", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Amazon Venture oil spill, in which about 500,000 US gallons of oil spilled into the Savannah River, was caused by three valves that simultaneously malfunctioned.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Venture_oil_spill", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Peruvian Viagra grows on the roots of plants.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Corynaea_crassa", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "A 40-foot-tall was painted over due to a broken foot.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Theatre", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 1887, after spending three nights on the summit of Mont Blanc, scientist Joseph Vallot and his party were greeted with flowers by the mayor and all the inhabitants of Chamonix.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/VFC_(company)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "American musician Kenneth Kilgore, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, had a bridge posthumously named after him.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Kilgore", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 1951, 22 Greenlandic children were sent to foster families in Denmark to be re-educated as \"little Danes\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Danes_experiment", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Kate Foster is the British ambassador to Somalia, but there are no consular services at the embassy in Mogadishu.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Foster_(diplomat)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "A billion dollars' worth of coal power in Turkey could be stranded.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_Turkey", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The play-by-mail game Victory! The Battle for Europe takes about three years to play.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-mail_game", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "John William Kiser , who arrived in Chicago \"practically penniless\", took advantage of a boom in bicycle usage when he formed the Monarch Bicycle company.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Kiser", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Pope Pius IX gave the monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey permission to brew Saint Vincent Beer.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "DTK Computer was one of the first companies to have its computers sold via satellite television.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DTK_Computer", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In Africa, the criminalization of homosexuality was a colonial imposition and the decriminalization of homosexuality is resisted as a neocolonial imposition.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminalization_of_homosexuality", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Francis Martin, a Cistercian monk from the Bronx, became a leader in the Catholic charismatic renewal.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Martin_(biblical_scholar)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Singapore's North East MRT line saw the first launch of the Art-in-Transit programme \u2013 a public artwork showcase on the MRT network.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/North_East_MRT_line", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Journalist Jack Berry was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at The Masters.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Berry_(journalist)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The artwork Comedian, a fresh banana taped to a wall with duct tape, sold for $120,000 in 2019.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_(artwork)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at Sissinghurst as \"a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Fashion model Vivienne Rohner, named after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, opened one of Westwood's shows during her first season as a model.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Rohner", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Washington State Route 304 was accidentally removed from the state highway system by the Washington State Legislature for two years.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Route_304", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Beate Ulbricht was subjected to harassment by the East German government because her adoptive parents, Walter and Lotte Ulbricht, did not approve of her marriage.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Ulbricht", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Henry Stoehr was able to spend more time producing his band's debut studio album, Moveys, after losing his day job due to the COVID-19 pandemic.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Pulp", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "One-sixth of all liquor establishments in Bombay were attacked in the 1921 Prince of Wales riots.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, German para-cyclist Hans-Peter Durst won a time trial despite having no saddle for most of the event.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Summer_Paralympics", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "One radio station owner's decision to bring a \"country cousin\" to Tallahassee, Florida, turned out to be a miscalculation.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WTNT-FM", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Beauty queen Veronica Volkersz was the first woman to pilot an operational jet fighter.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Volkersz", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Although the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tried to end payola, it just became more sophisticated.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Subcommittee_on_Legislative_Oversight", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Star singers from the Munich parish of St. Martin, Moosach, were received by Angela Merkel in 2012.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_singers", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Tyler Stockton was the second-youngest defensive coordinator in the FBS each of the two times he was nominated for the Broyles Award.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Stockton", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Larvae of the baked bean ascidian settle onto the tunics of adult individuals.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrodoa_grossularia", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Mary Healy, an international speaker on faith healing in the Catholic Church, only became interested in the subject during her 2014 sabbatical.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Healy_(theologian)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Depictions of a sexual relationship between Richard the Lionheart and his sister Lady Joanna were cut from the script of the Doctor Who serial The Crusade.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 2021, Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In the 1960s, the Centers for Disease Control's Wellbee encouraged Americans to get vaccinated against polio and diphtheria.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Andi Sudirman Sulaiman made it mandatory for Muslim civil servants to read the Quran before work.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Andi_Sudirman_Sulaiman", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "According to legend, the Red Ghost trampled a woman to death, and killed and ate a grizzly bear.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ghost_(folklore)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "David Flitcroft was appointed as director of football at Port Vale after initially applying to be the club's manager.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Flitcroft", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The driver in a 2019 truck crash received a sentence of 110 years in prison due to mandatory sentencing laws in Colorado.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Lakewood_semi-truck_crash", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Rudi Kappel, co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Kappel", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Alignment Problem, a book discussing existential risk from AI, was one of five \"books that inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella\" in 2021.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alignment_Problem", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Thomas Davey was part of a florists' cult.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Davey_(florist)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Jessen's icosahedron has been used for both the \"Skwish\" children's toy and a NASA proposal for a \"super ball bot\" to cushion space landers on other planets.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessen%27s_icosahedron", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "After a dispute emerged over the terms of its lease, the owner of its broadcast tower forced Wyoming radio station KNWT off the air by disconnecting its power.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/KNWT", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "..that the Yamashiro ikki has been characterized as the \"people's parliament of the Warring States period\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashiro_ikki", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 1848, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad was \"regularly run with greater speed than any other railroad in the United States\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_and_New_Haven_Railroad", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Ludwig Zottmayr, who created the role of King Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, was not the composer's first choice.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Zottmayr", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Referee Jan Verhaas was informed of an error he made at the 2022 Masters by a member of the crowd.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Cody Bellinger made a motion capture appearance in Assassin's Creed Valhalla as the Viking Otta Sluggasson, with Bellinger's own baseball bat serving as Sluggasson's weapon.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Bellinger", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Uvariopsis dicaprio was the first new plant species described in 2022.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvariopsis_dicaprio", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Lewis Hamilton's physiotherapist, Angela Cullen , once cycled from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to northern Colombia.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hamilton", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "While Wired recommended that readers binge The West Wing, it also advised readers to skip the fourth season episode \"The Long Goodbye\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Sports broadcaster Gene Principe had to choose between covering his hometown team at the 2006 NHL playoffs and his \"pure dream\" of covering the Italian team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Principe", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Four years after Harry Frazee opened his Longacre Theatre, he sold his ownership stake in the theater to focus on baseball.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Frazee", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Quotations of Cicero, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. about memory and love are engraved on the Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_Victims_of_Violence_in_Mexico", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Schnerr", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Fire and Sword, a film about Tristan and Isolde, reused the stuntmen and horses from another Arthurian film, Excalibur.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Sword", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "There have been several attempts to make Colby cheese the official state cheese of Wisconsin.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Colby_cheese", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The viral online word game Wordle was originally created just for the developer and his partner to play.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "An Indonesian road expansion project demolished the home of a former public works minister.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinus_Putuhena", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "A M\u0101ori military settlement at M\u0101ngere Bridge, New Zealand, was established in the 1840s to protect Auckland.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Dick Graves sold his casino to an employee on a handshake, telling him \"pay me when you can\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Graves", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Ukrainian activists squatted Viktor Yanukovych's opulent clubhouse at the Mezhyhirya Residence.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_in_Ukraine", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Journalist Eddie MacCabe claimed to have been pinned to the ground with guns pointed at his head while acting as a golf caddie for the United States president.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_MacCabe", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Some of the Japanese music unit Sangatsu no Phantasia's songs were also written in novel form by its lead vocalist.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangatsu_no_Phantasia", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The fifteen bags of seaweed used as set dressing for the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet emanated an overpowering vegetable smell under the hot studio lights.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "J.P. Morgan & Co. received a tax exemption for its former 60 Wall Street headquarters after the building's original developer had been denied the same exemption.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Wall_Street", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Oswald Spengler and the artist can be seen in the painting Late Visitors to Pompeii.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Current Hawaii football defensive coordinator Trent Figg coached for the United States national team in 2016.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Rainbow_Warriors_football", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Dyson Institute Village's modular student-housing pods were inspired by Habitat 67.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_Institute_Village", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Bobbie Gentry defined her composition \"Ode to Billie Joe\" as a \"study in unconscious cruelty\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbie_Gentry", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Amanda Asay was the longest-serving member of the Canadian women's baseball team when she died at 33, having played on the team for sixteen years.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Asay", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The more irreverent moments of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, such as a golf game with giant balls, were added to break up the story's intensity.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk:_Ultimate_Destruction", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Immediately after Colonel Drury-Lowe reassured his men that \"[the bullets] are all passing over your heads\", the officer next to him was shot and killed.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Drury_Drury-Lowe", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Preet Chandi, the first known woman of colour to walk solo to the South Pole, contacted friends to be bridesmaids during her expedition.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Chandi", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In the 12th century, when wearing pure silk was forbidden for Muslim men, a silk-and-cotton blend known as mashru solved the problem.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_(textile)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Nathan Agostinelli stomped on a Viet Cong flag during his campaign for Connecticut State Comptroller.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Agostinelli", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Lille langebro looks like a twisted ribbon when it is lit up after dark.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille_langebro", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "American business executive William M. 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G. Ballard's weakest works.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Now:_Zero", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Malysha Kelly's return to the Jamaica national netball team after a three-year absence was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Malysha_Kelly", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The American reality TV series The Bachelor took 18 years and 25 seasons to star its first black man.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bachelor_(American_TV_series)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "For the 2015 film A Heavy Heart, German actor Peter Kurth gained and then lost 35 pounds to portray his character's physical decline due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Heavy_Heart", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The 1996 book Breton Ballads studies examples of the Breton genre of gwerz, and discusses the Barzaz Breiz controversy.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_Ballads", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 2020, Eli Savit was elected the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County, Michigan, on a promise to abolish the cash bail system.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Savit", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "At the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton slid off the wet track into a gravel trap, but was able to re-join the circuit and win the race.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Belgian_Grand_Prix", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Etruscan cippi were sometimes used as cinerary urns in the shape of a human torso with the head as a lid .", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cippus", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Writer James Kendall Hosmer chose to fight on the front lines in the American Civil War instead of serving on the staff of General Nathaniel P. 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Castle wrote the first book-length account of the postal history of Cyprus.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_T._F._Castle", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode \"A Transfer\", Arthur Schopenhauer's hedgehog's dilemma is mentioned.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Len Fisher won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his research on the optimal way to dunk a biscuit.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Fisher", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Most of the coastal highway Japan National Route 101 follows the path of a road originally established by the Tokugawa shogunate.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_National_Route_101", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Grote Stadskerk, a church located in the historical centre of Paramaribo, is the first and the largest church of the Moravian congregation in Suriname.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_Stadskerk", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "After making videos on TikTok where she lip-synced Donald Trump, Sarah Cooper got a comedy special on Netflix and a TV show on CBS.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The greeneye spurdog, Sydney skate, grey skate and whitefin swellshark are at risk of extinction by trawling, according to a 2021 report.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeneye_spurdog", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Nazis at Ravensbr\u00fcck killed French Resistance fighter \u00c9milie Tillion by gas chamber for having white hair.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The most senior of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project, William Knox, supervised the otherwise-white staff of the Corrosion Section at Columbia University.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_scientists_and_technicians_on_the_Manhattan_Project", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Jos\u00e9 de la Cruz Mena, who contracted leprosy at the age of 21 and was blind at 26, was described as \"the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_la_Cruz_Mena", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In State v. 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Everett, with help from his stenographer Lulu G. 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Holmberg's idea for The Fifth Doll began with a writing exercise to develop a system of magic for a household item.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_N._Holmberg", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The All Time Low song \"PMA\" features guest vocals from Heather Baron-Gracie of the British band Pale Waves.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Time_Low", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Song Kok Hoo was the first Asian deputy commissioner of police in Singapore.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Kok_Hoo", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Schloss Gripsholm was dedicated by author Kurt Tucholsky to a license plate number.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Gripsholm", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Kokawa-dera Engi Emaki, a 12th-century Japanese painted handscroll , was partly burned in a fire, and also partly damaged at the edges.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokawa-dera_Engi_Emaki", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Kuinini Manumua is the first woman to represent Tonga in weightlifting at the Olympic Games.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuinini_Manumua", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "As the acting President of Zambia in 2014, Guy Scott became the first white leader of an African country since the end of apartheid.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Zambia", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Massekhet Amerika by Gerson Rosenzweig satirizes Jewish life in New York in the style of a Talmudic tractate.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerson_Rosenzweig", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Three verses from Psalm 86 became part of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, including the opening \"Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_86", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "During the 1991 Zaire unrest, 30 to 40% of all companies in Zaire were plundered, and around 70% of the country's retail businesses were destroyed.", "url": 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Night Shyamalan's Old is based on a Swiss graphic novel that the filmmaker received as a Father's Day gift.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_(film)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Two feet-one hand syndrome is the combination of two athlete's feet and fungus in one hand.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_feet-one_hand_syndrome", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Philosopher George Pitcher adopted a stray dog and her puppy that he took everywhere, including on a trip to France aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pitcher_(philosopher)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Steel River, in Northern Ontario, Canada, is one of the few rivers along Lake Superior's north shore never used for log drives.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_River_(Ontario)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The 1887 execution of George Flaxman may have inspired Rudyard Kipling's poem \"Danny Deever\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_George_Flaxman", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "\"every chapter\" of the 1823 novel Seventy-Six is said to be \"covered with blood, or heaving with the throes of lacerated flesh\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventy-Six_(novel)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The title of La Passion selon Sade, an opera by Sylvano Bussotti , caused a scandal at its premiere and had to be changed for the next performance.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Passion_selon_Sade", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Fernhill House has been home to a butter merchant, an Ulster Volunteer Force armoury, a Grand National-winning racehorse and the world's largest collection of Orange Order memorabilia.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernhill_House", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "100 years after Mary Emily Sinclair wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the discriminants of quintic polynomials, Helaman Ferguson based a sculpture on her work.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Emily_Sinclair", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Tenantry Column was built by the tenants of the Duke of Northumberland as thanks for a rent reduction.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenantry_Column", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Iraqi paramilitary organisation Saraya Awliya al-Dam has a Telegram account.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraya_Awliya_al-Dam", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Sharri MacDonald was removed from the Old Orchard Beach City Council after a controversial 4\u20133 vote put the entire council up for recall.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharri_MacDonald", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Antlers' 2021 album Green to Gold was made after lead singer Peter Silberman suffered temporary total hearing loss and lesions on his vocal cords.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antlers_(band)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "A newly opened ferry in 1968 attracted \"vodka tourists\" to Estonia.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Estonia", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Jersey Maritime Museum displays a 7.5-million-stitch tapestry depicting life under Nazi occupation that was worked on by thousands of islanders.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Maritime_Museum", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The 1940 NCAA Basketball Championship Game began a run of three straight NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament title games held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_NCAA_Basketball_Championship_Game", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Alma Mater statue at Columbia University was damaged by an explosion during student protests in 1970.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Mater_(New_York_sculpture)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Congolese rebel leader Andr\u00e9 Kisase Ngandu criticised his Rwandan allies to such an extent that they were probably responsible for his murder.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Kisase_Ngandu", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The desert plant Euphorbia caducifolia is commonly known as the \"leafless milk hedge\", while Euphorbia nivulia is the \"holy milk hedge\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_caducifolia", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 2020, Border Violence Monitoring Network published the Black Book of Pushbacks documenting human rights violations against 12,654 migrants traveling on the Balkan route.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Violence_Monitoring_Network", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "As secretary of the NAACP, May Childs Nerney has been credited with \"laying the fundamental groundwork\" for \"the most powerful organization battling racial injustice\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "A club set up tennis courts on the roof of St. John's Terminal after broker William J. 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Hollander & Company filed for bankruptcy less than two years after moving its New York City store to 3 East 57th Street.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/3_East_57th_Street", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "\"The Epic Split\" featured an actor performing a gymnastic split between two backwards moving trucks.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epic_Split", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Academese has been criticized for being unnecessarily complex and in extreme cases, purposefully discriminating and obfuscating.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Academese", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Delphian Club designated John Neal as Magister Facetiarum of the Office of the Joke Master General.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphian_Club", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Mondeghili became popular during the Spanish domination of the Duchy of Milan.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondeghili", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Civil-rights lawyer Ni Yulan, sentenced after recording the forced demolition of homes to make way for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was prevented from leaving China to accept awards.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni_Yulan", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "A Communist Party official was represented in Schneiderman v. 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Daronco was a United States federal judge for just over a year before he was assassinated by the father of a disgruntled plaintiff.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daronco", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Academic Paul Tempan said of the Twelve Bens mountain range in Connemara, Ireland, that \"nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Bens", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Political scientist Elizabeth Theiss-Morse has written a book on the flexibility of the American national identity.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Theiss-Morse", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Due to its similarity to the coronavirus pandemic, Warner Bros.' second most successful film of 2020 so far is 2011's Contagion.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_on_cinema", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "While studying dance, Anca Giurchescu joined the Romanian national shooting team and won individual and team medals at the 1955 European Shooting Championships.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anca_Giurchescu", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The \"Cracked Bell of Trinity Church\" in Ryde, England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Ryde", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Besides his portrait photography, \u00c9tienne Carjat edited journals and published caricatures in the popular press.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Carjat", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The systematic deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp began on 26 March 1942, with a transport of 997 women and girls from Poprad, Slovakia.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Chiara Daraio has used a version of Newton's cradle to create \"sound bullets\", and walls filled with ball bearings to create one-way barriers for sound.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara_Daraio", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Union Church in Hong Kong was temporarily moved to the officers' mess of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps from 1945 to 1949.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Church,_Hong_Kong", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Senator Ted Kennedy's 1980 presidential campaign may have weakened support for incumbent U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who later lost the general election.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Palazzo del Governatore di Borgo in Rome was one of the first buildings to display architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's artistic maturity.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_del_Governatore_di_Borgo", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "During the American Civil War, Charles B. 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Havens Richards, the president of Georgetown University, successfully petitioned Harvard Law School to admit the graduates of some Catholic colleges.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Havens_Richards", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The first football match held after the renovation of Milltown stadium in Northern Ireland was abandoned due to a floodlight failure.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_(stadium)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Jan Yager's artwork American Ruff is made from discarded crack-cocaine vials and caps.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Yager", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Unlike most soft scale insects, the adult female pyriform scale is able to move around.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccidae", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Welsh boxer Steve Sims has trained for fights by running up and down the 290 steps of the Newport Transporter Bridge ten times a day.", "url": 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"Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Quentin Edwards was asked not to return to Bradfield College after a schoolmaster found passionate letters sent to him by John Mortimer.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Edwards", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Venezuela won its first Olympic medal in 1952 with triple jumper Asnoldo Devonish, who competed while injured.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela_at_the_1952_Summer_Olympics", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Ole B\u00f8rud's guitar music on the album Sonrise, by the band Schaliach, was likened to a \"metal symphony\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_B%C3%B8rud", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "After the 7th Infantry Regiment captured Hitler's Berghof on 4 May 1945, its commander, Colonel John A. 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"Turkish female international sailing competitor Ecem G\u00fczel has finished in the top three of a competition five times in the last seven years.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecem_G%C3%BCzel", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Indian film Chand Bujh Gaya was denied a censor certificate for fear of \"inciting communal violence\" and \"communal disharmony\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Chand_Bujh_Gaya", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Pediatrician Samuel Z. Levine was summoned by the White House in 1963 to treat President John F. 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Bowman was one of the scientists who discovered the genetic difference responsible for variations in haptoglobin, a human blood protein.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_H._Bowman", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Boston and Skegness is estimated to have the highest percentage of \"Leave\" votes in the 2016 EU referendum of any parliamentary constituency in the UK.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_and_Skegness_(UK_Parliament_constituency)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The 145th Street station in Manhattan was slated to be replaced with another subway station in the 1960s, but remained open following protests.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/145th_Street_station_(IRT_Lenox_Avenue_Line)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The male bigtooth cardinalfish broods a ball of eggs in his mouth.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtooth_cardinalfish", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Oregon state representative J. 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Anderson wrote an anti-transgender book that topped the Amazon bestsellers list in the Gay & Lesbian Civil Rights History category.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_T._Anderson", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Elizabeth I is said to have been told of her accession whilst sitting beneath Queen Elizabeth's Oak at Hatfield Palace.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 1952, the U.S. State Department Panel of Consultants on Disarmament recommended that the first test of the hydrogen bomb not be held.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Department_Panel_of_Consultants_on_Disarmament", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Bandana Nepal achieved the Guinness World Record for \"longest dance marathon by an individual\" by dancing for 126 hours continuously.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandana_Nepal", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The extinct sumac species Rhus republicensis is named for Republic, 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"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation_volume", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Boie's frog and the Banhado frog both resemble dead leaves on the floor of the forest.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceratophrys_boiei", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "16-year-old Tate McRae has been described as \"Canada's answer to Billie Eilish\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_McRae", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East argues that Nazism and Islamism are similar, especially in their extreme antisemitism.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis,_Islamists,_and_the_Making_of_the_Modern_Middle_East", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge was built to carry sheep.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodie_Creek_Suspension_Bridge", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Lilly Dubowitz, co-developer of the Dubowitz Score, also introduced the use of cranial ultrasound to assess the brains 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"fact": "During the 1970 U.S. Senate election in New York, Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to Senator Charles Goodell as the \"Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_United_States_Senate_election_in_New_York", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Mexican professional wrestler Chabela Romero had a feud with Irma Gonz\u00e1lez that played out across eight years and in three countries.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabela_Romero", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Chilean seaside cinclodes bobs its tail while it walks and flares its wings while it sings.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_seaside_cinclodes", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The phrase \"When the looting starts, the shooting starts\" was first used by a Miami police chief who told the press in 1967 that they \"don't mind being accused of police brutality\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_shooting_starts", 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Hook, the first mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, drowned while searching for silver mines.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/H._M._Hook", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandai_Wildlife_Bridge", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Fannie Flagg set her 2010 comedy-mystery novel I Still Dream About You in Birmingham, Alabama, because she wanted \"to write a Valentine to my hometown\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Flagg", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Temple Memorial Park, named after Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, was given to the people of South Shields in recognition of their military contributions at sea in World War II.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Memorial_Park", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Martin Luther King Jr. used the phrase \"justice too long delayed is justice denied\" in his Letter from Birmingham Jail.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The song \"Running\", which was set to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, was sung by a German-born singer of Greek and American ancestry.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_(Sandro_song)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Northern Irish historian A. 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King Jr. explored and surveyed islands where downrange stations were subsequently established as part of the Eastern Test Range.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._King_Jr.", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The hills of H\u00e1rshegy offer commanding views of Budapest.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1rshegy", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Some types of incitement to terrorism are constitutionally protected in the United States.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_terrorism", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k mixed and matched selections from his Eight Hungarian Folksongs in performance.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "President Ulysses S. 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Hanna, the 36th mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, served for only five months before being convicted for bribery.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_L._Hanna", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Cloth face masks are considered source control but they are not considered personal protective equipment.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloth_face_mask", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Vonda McIntyre's 1973 short story \"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand\", which won a Nebula Award, was used as the first chapter of her 1978 novel Dreamsnake, which also won a Nebula Award.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Vonda_N._McIntyre", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iran's former commerce minister and OPEC governor, once worked as a pizza delivery man in the U.S..", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Kazempour_Ardebili", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "American missionary Laura Fish Judd taught a queen how to make dresses, co-founded the first school for Hawaiian children, and wrote about Hawaiian dining etiquette and cuisine.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Fish_Judd", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Ant gardens are cultivated by several species of ant, including Crematogaster carinata.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_garden", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher discovered a song to release while under lockdown, which his brother called \"not worth a wank\".", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_(band)", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Sarah Fisher, the first woman to claim a pole position in American open-wheel racing, began competing at age five.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Fisher", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Welsh fiscal deficit was higher than Greece's throughout the Greek government-debt crisis.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_fiscal_deficit", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The Canadian film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing was the second production screened at 1987 film festivals to have a title taken from T. 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Leo Hafen was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for being associated with a religious group practicing wife sacrifice.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Leo_Hafen", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "The banteng is the second endangered species to be successfully cloned, and the first clone to survive beyond infancy.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Banteng", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Peter the Great experienced \"a riotous and revelling Christmas\" in London in 1697.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "In 1940, 40 Wall Street in New York City was worth less than its elevators had cost.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Wall_Street", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Hong Kong protestors have drawn analogies between Nazi Germany and China.", "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_analogies", "source": "Wikipedia" }, { "fact": "Cyrano de Bergerac by Eino Tamberg was the 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It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "George MacDonald", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "author": "Eminem", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "author": "Frank Crane", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is built with consistency.", "author": "Lincoln Chafee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "author": "Bo Bennett", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "author": "Charles Spurgeon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "author": "Allyson Felix", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "author": "Benjamin Spock", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "author": "Billy Wilder", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "author": "Harvey S. Firestone", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is the first step to love.", "author": "Munshi Premchand", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.", "author": "Pope Francis", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "author": "Eric Sevareid", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "author": "Isaac Watts", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "author": "Eric Hoffer", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "author": "Robert E. Lee", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "author": "Eubie Blake", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "author": "Walter Anderson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "author": "Gisele Bundchen", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "author": "Hillary Clinton", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.", "author": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "author": "Grantland Rice", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "author": "Barbara Smith", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "author": "Eartha Kitt", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "author": "Shelley Long", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "author": "Claudia Black", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "author": "Graham Greene", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "author": "Natalie Goldberg", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "author": "J. K. Rowling", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "author": "Kenny Loggins", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "author": "Solon", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "author": "Henry L. Stimson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "author": "Finley Peter Dunne", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "author": "Harold MacMillan", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "author": "Harvey Fierstein", "topic": "trust" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.", "author": "Ogden Nash", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "author": "Jackie Kennedy", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "author": "Franz Schubert", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "author": "James Dobson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "author": "Prince Philip", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.", "author": "Booth Tarkington", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "author": "Andre Maurois", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "author": "John Lyly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "author": "John Florio", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "author": "Joey Adams", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "author": "Sacha Guitry", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "author": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "author": "Ann Landers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "author": "Sydney Smith", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "author": "Billy Connolly", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.", "author": "Sophia Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "author": "Joyce Brothers", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "author": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "author": "Nancy Astor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "author": "Eddie Cantor", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "author": "Johnny Carson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "author": "Joe Murray", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "author": "Lewis Grizzard", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "author": "Red Skelton", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.", "author": "Bruce Forsyth", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.", "author": "Ann Bancroft", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.", "author": "Hesiod", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "author": "Ellen Key", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "author": "Elvis Presley", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "author": "Mickey Rooney", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn", "topic": "marriage" }, { "quote": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.", "author": "Lana Turner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Neutral men are the devil's allies.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "author": "Abigail Adams", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Honor is simply the morality of superior men.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not fail; they give up trying.", "author": "Elihu Root", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "author": "Diogenes", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "author": "E. B. White", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.", "author": "Chuck Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.", "author": "Dante Alighieri", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Culture makes all men gentle.", "author": "Menander", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.", "author": "William Ellery Channing", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.", "author": "Iris Murdoch", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.", "author": "Edmund Waller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.", "author": "Kin Hubbard", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men must know their limitations.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.", "author": "Max Lerner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "author": "Keith Miller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.", "author": "Phyllis Diller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.", "author": "Clarence Darrow", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.", "author": "Emil Zatopek", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.", "author": "Daniel Webster", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "author": "Charles Baudelaire", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.", "author": "Rita Mae Brown", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.", "author": "Chief Joseph", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.", "author": "Benjamin Haydon", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.", "author": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.", "author": "Jerry Seinfeld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "author": "Cyril Connolly", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.", "author": "Howard Thurman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are actually the weaker sex.", "author": "George Weinberg", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.", "author": "Richard Whately", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "author": "Morris Chestnut", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The less men think, the more they talk.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "author": "George William Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "author": "Knute Rockne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men often act knowingly against their interest.", "author": "David Hume", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.", "author": "Lana Turner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Neutral men are the devil's allies.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "author": "Abigail Adams", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Honor is simply the morality of superior men.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not fail; they give up trying.", "author": "Elihu Root", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "author": "Diogenes", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "author": "E. B. White", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.", "author": "Chuck Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.", "author": "Dante Alighieri", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Culture makes all men gentle.", "author": "Menander", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.", "author": "William Ellery Channing", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.", "author": "Iris Murdoch", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.", "author": "Edmund Waller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.", "author": "Kin Hubbard", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men must know their limitations.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.", "author": "Max Lerner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "author": "Keith Miller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.", "author": "Phyllis Diller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.", "author": "Clarence Darrow", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.", "author": "Emil Zatopek", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.", "author": "Daniel Webster", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "author": "Charles Baudelaire", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.", "author": "Rita Mae Brown", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.", "author": "Chief Joseph", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.", "author": "Benjamin Haydon", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.", "author": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.", "author": "Jerry Seinfeld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "author": "Cyril Connolly", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.", "author": "Howard Thurman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are actually the weaker sex.", "author": "George Weinberg", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.", "author": "Richard Whately", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "author": "Morris Chestnut", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The less men think, the more they talk.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "author": "George William Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "author": "Knute Rockne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men often act knowingly against their interest.", "author": "David Hume", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.", "author": "Lana Turner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Neutral men are the devil's allies.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "author": "Abigail Adams", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Honor is simply the morality of superior men.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not fail; they give up trying.", "author": "Elihu Root", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "author": "Diogenes", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "author": "E. B. White", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.", "author": "Chuck Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.", "author": "Dante Alighieri", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Culture makes all men gentle.", "author": "Menander", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.", "author": "William Ellery Channing", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.", "author": "Iris Murdoch", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.", "author": "Edmund Waller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.", "author": "Kin Hubbard", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men must know their limitations.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.", "author": "Max Lerner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "author": "Keith Miller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.", "author": "Phyllis Diller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.", "author": "Clarence Darrow", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.", "author": "Emil Zatopek", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.", "author": "Daniel Webster", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "author": "Charles Baudelaire", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.", "author": "Rita Mae Brown", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.", "author": "Chief Joseph", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.", "author": "Benjamin Haydon", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.", "author": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.", "author": "Jerry Seinfeld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "author": "Cyril Connolly", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.", "author": "Howard Thurman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are actually the weaker sex.", "author": "George Weinberg", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.", "author": "Richard Whately", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "author": "Morris Chestnut", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The less men think, the more they talk.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "author": "George William Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "author": "Knute Rockne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men often act knowingly against their interest.", "author": "David Hume", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.", "author": "Lana Turner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Neutral men are the devil's allies.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "author": "Abigail Adams", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Honor is simply the morality of superior men.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not fail; they give up trying.", "author": "Elihu Root", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "author": "Diogenes", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "author": "E. B. White", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.", "author": "Chuck Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.", "author": "Dante Alighieri", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Culture makes all men gentle.", "author": "Menander", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.", "author": "William Ellery Channing", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.", "author": "Iris Murdoch", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.", "author": "Edmund Waller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.", "author": "Kin Hubbard", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men must know their limitations.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.", "author": "Max Lerner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "author": "Keith Miller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.", "author": "Phyllis Diller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.", "author": "Clarence Darrow", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.", "author": "Emil Zatopek", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.", "author": "Daniel Webster", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "author": "Charles Baudelaire", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.", "author": "Rita Mae Brown", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Treat all men alike. 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They only care what else is on TV.", "author": "Jerry Seinfeld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "author": "Cyril Connolly", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.", "author": "Howard Thurman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. 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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are actually the weaker sex.", "author": "George Weinberg", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.", "author": "Richard Whately", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "author": "Morris Chestnut", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The less men think, the more they talk.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "author": "George William Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "author": "Knute Rockne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men often act knowingly against their interest.", "author": "David Hume", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. 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Mencken", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not fail; they give up trying.", "author": "Elihu Root", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "author": "Diogenes", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "author": "E. B. White", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.", "author": "Chuck Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.", "author": "Dante Alighieri", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Culture makes all men gentle.", "author": "Menander", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.", "author": "William Ellery Channing", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.", "author": "Iris Murdoch", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.", "author": "Edmund Waller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.", "author": "Kin Hubbard", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men must know their limitations.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.", "author": "Max Lerner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "author": "Keith Miller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.", "author": "Phyllis Diller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.", "author": "Clarence Darrow", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.", "author": "Emil Zatopek", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.", "author": "Daniel Webster", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "author": "Charles Baudelaire", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.", "author": "Rita Mae Brown", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.", "author": "Chief Joseph", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.", "author": "Benjamin Haydon", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.", "author": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.", "author": "Jerry Seinfeld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "author": "Cyril Connolly", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.", "author": "Howard Thurman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are actually the weaker sex.", "author": "George Weinberg", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.", "author": "Richard Whately", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "author": "Morris Chestnut", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The less men think, the more they talk.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "author": "George William Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "author": "Knute Rockne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men often act knowingly against their interest.", "author": "David Hume", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.", "author": "Lana Turner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Neutral men are the devil's allies.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "author": "Abigail Adams", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Honor is simply the morality of superior men.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not fail; they give up trying.", "author": "Elihu Root", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "author": "Diogenes", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "author": "E. B. White", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like steel. 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Mencken", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not fail; they give up trying.", "author": "Elihu Root", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "author": "Diogenes", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "author": "E. B. White", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like steel. 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They're luxuries.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.", "author": "Edmund Waller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.", "author": "Kin Hubbard", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men must know their limitations.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.", "author": "Max Lerner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "author": "Keith Miller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.", "author": "Phyllis Diller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.", "author": "Clarence Darrow", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.", "author": "Emil Zatopek", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.", "author": "Daniel Webster", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "author": "Charles Baudelaire", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.", "author": "Rita Mae Brown", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.", "author": "Chief Joseph", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.", "author": "Benjamin Haydon", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.", "author": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.", "author": "Jerry Seinfeld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "author": "Cyril Connolly", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.", "author": "Howard Thurman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are actually the weaker sex.", "author": "George Weinberg", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.", "author": "Richard Whately", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "author": "Morris Chestnut", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The less men think, the more they talk.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "author": "George William Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "author": "Knute Rockne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men often act knowingly against their interest.", "author": "David Hume", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.", "author": "Lana Turner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Neutral men are the devil's allies.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "author": "Abigail Adams", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Honor is simply the morality of superior men.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not fail; they give up trying.", "author": "Elihu Root", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "author": "Diogenes", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "author": "E. B. White", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.", "author": "Chuck Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.", "author": "Dante Alighieri", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Culture makes all men gentle.", "author": "Menander", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.", "author": "William Ellery Channing", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.", "author": "Iris Murdoch", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.", "author": "Cher", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.", "author": "Edmund Waller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.", "author": "Kin Hubbard", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men must know their limitations.", "author": "Clint Eastwood", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.", "author": "Max Lerner", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "author": "Keith Miller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.", "author": "Phyllis Diller", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.", "author": "Clarence Darrow", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.", "author": "Emil Zatopek", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.", "author": "Daniel Webster", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "author": "Charles Baudelaire", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.", "author": "Rita Mae Brown", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.", "author": "Chief Joseph", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.", "author": "Benjamin Haydon", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.", "author": "Herodotus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.", "author": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.", "author": "Jerry Seinfeld", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "author": "Cyril Connolly", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.", "author": "Howard Thurman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are actually the weaker sex.", "author": "George Weinberg", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.", "author": "Richard Whately", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "author": "Morris Chestnut", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "The less men think, the more they talk.", "author": "Montesquieu", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "author": "George William Norris", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "author": "Knute Rockne", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "Men often act knowingly against their interest.", "author": "David Hume", "topic": "men" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "author": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "author": "Bil Keane", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "author": "Dr. Seuss", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "author": "William Gibson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "author": "Earl Nightingale", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "author": "Coco Chanel", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.", "author": "Charles M. Schulz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "author": "John Lennon", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.", "author": "Horace Mann", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "author": "Barbara Bush", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "author": "M. Scott Peck", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "author": "Jean Racine", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "author": "Pericles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time brings all things to pass.", "author": "Aeschylus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "author": "Delmore Schwartz", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "author": "Theophrastus", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "author": "Dion Boucicault", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "author": "Elizabeth Taylor", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "author": "Michael LeBoeuf", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time will pass and seasons will come and go.", "author": "Roy Bean", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.", "author": "Paul Harvey", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "author": "John Wanamaker", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.", "author": "Ivan Turgenev", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "author": "Samuel Gompers", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "author": "Henry Austin Dobson", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.", "author": "Ben Hecht", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.", "author": "Francois Rabelais", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "author": "Tillie Olsen", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "author": "Golda Meir", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "author": "Tennessee Williams", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "John Archibald Wheeler", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "author": "Sophocles", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Perfection is the child of time.", "author": "Joseph Hall", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time, the devourer of all things.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "author": "W. H. Auden", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "author": "Adam Hochschild", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "author": "Max Frisch", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.", "author": "Charles Lamb", "topic": "time" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "author": "Saadi", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "author": "Hal Borland", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "author": "John Dryden", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "author": "Laurence J. Peter", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "author": "John Quincy Adams", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "author": "George Savile", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "author": "Edith Sitwell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "author": "James J. Corbett", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Genius is eternal patience.", "author": "Michelangelo", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "author": "Daisaku Ikeda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "author": "Phillips Brooks", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "author": "Luc de Clapiers", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "author": "Saint Francis de Sales", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.", "author": "Virgil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "author": "George Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "author": "Plautus", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.", "author": "Homer", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "author": "Joseph Addison", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "author": "William Penn", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.", "author": "Mary Pierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "author": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "author": "Holbrook Jackson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "author": "William Golding", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is passion tamed.", "author": "Lyman Abbott", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Humility is attentive patience.", "author": "Simone Weil", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "author": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "author": "Peter Marshall", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "author": "Barbara Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.", "author": "Charles Caleb Colton", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "author": "Randy Johnson", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "author": "Hyman Rickover", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "I'm patient.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.", "author": "Simon Cowell", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "author": "Jean de la Bruyere", "topic": "patience" }, { "quote": "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.", "author": "Carl Sagan", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.", "author": "Edward Teller", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "What is research but a blind date with knowledge?", "author": "Will Harvey", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.", "author": "Louis Pasteur", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is nothing but perception.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.", "author": "Jeff Bezos", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.", "author": "Brian Greene", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "There are no shortcuts in evolution.", "author": "Louis D. Brandeis", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.", "author": "Arthur M. Schlesinger", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.", "author": "Wernher von Braun", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.", "author": "Adam Smith", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.", "author": "Sally Ride", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.", "author": "Stephen Hawking", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.", "author": "Arthur C. Clarke", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.", "author": "Bruce Feirstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.", "author": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.", "author": "John von Neumann", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.", "author": "Niels Bohr", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.", "author": "Muriel Rukeyser", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.", "author": "Margaret Mead", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.", "author": "Max Planck", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.", "author": "Henrik Ibsen", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Art is I; science is we.", "author": "Claude Bernard", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", "author": "Edwin Powell Hubble", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.", "author": "Thomas Huxley", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.", "author": "Konrad Lorenz", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.", "author": "Jean Rostand", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.", "author": "Alan Perlis", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.", "author": "Stephen LaBerge", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "What is a scientist after all? 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These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.", "author": "Brian Greene", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "There are no shortcuts in evolution.", "author": "Louis D. Brandeis", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.", "author": "Arthur M. Schlesinger", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.", "author": "Wernher von Braun", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.", "author": "Adam Smith", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.", "author": "Sally Ride", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.", "author": "Stephen Hawking", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.", "author": "John F. 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Glasow", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.", "author": "Bruce Feirstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.", "author": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.", "author": "John von Neumann", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.", "author": "Niels Bohr", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.", "author": "Muriel Rukeyser", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.", "author": "Margaret Mead", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.", "author": "Max Planck", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.", "author": "Henrik Ibsen", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Art is I; science is we.", "author": "Claude Bernard", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", "author": "Edwin Powell Hubble", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.", "author": "Thomas Huxley", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. 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These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.", "author": "Brian Greene", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "There are no shortcuts in evolution.", "author": "Louis D. Brandeis", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.", "author": "Arthur M. Schlesinger", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.", "author": "Wernher von Braun", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.", "author": "Adam Smith", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.", "author": "Sally Ride", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.", "author": "Stephen Hawking", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.", "author": "John F. 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Glasow", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.", "author": "Bruce Feirstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.", "author": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.", "author": "John von Neumann", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.", "author": "Niels Bohr", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.", "author": "Muriel Rukeyser", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.", "author": "Margaret Mead", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.", "author": "Max Planck", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.", "author": "Henrik Ibsen", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Art is I; science is we.", "author": "Claude Bernard", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", "author": "Edwin Powell Hubble", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.", "author": "Thomas Huxley", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. 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These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.", "author": "Brian Greene", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "There are no shortcuts in evolution.", "author": "Louis D. Brandeis", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.", "author": "Arthur M. Schlesinger", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.", "author": "Wernher von Braun", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.", "author": "Adam Smith", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.", "author": "Sally Ride", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.", "author": "Stephen Hawking", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.", "author": "Arthur C. Clarke", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.", "author": "Bruce Feirstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.", "author": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.", "author": "John von Neumann", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.", "author": "Niels Bohr", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.", "author": "Muriel Rukeyser", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.", "author": "Margaret Mead", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.", "author": "Max Planck", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.", "author": "Henrik Ibsen", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Art is I; science is we.", "author": "Claude Bernard", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", "author": "Edwin Powell Hubble", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.", "author": "Thomas Huxley", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.", "author": "Konrad Lorenz", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.", "author": "Jean Rostand", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.", "author": "Alan Perlis", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.", "author": "Stephen LaBerge", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.", "author": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.", "author": "George Santayana", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.", "author": "Ashley Montagu", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.", "author": "Rene Descartes", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.", "author": "Jim Lovell", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.", "author": "Gaston Bachelard", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is the systematic classification of experience.", "author": "George Henry Lewes", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "One can not impede scientific progress.", "author": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.", "author": "Irving Langmuir", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.", "author": "Lewis Thomas", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.", "author": "Frederick Sanger", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.", "author": "Robert Quillen", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.", "author": "Carl Sagan", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.", "author": "Edward Teller", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "What is research but a blind date with knowledge?", "author": "Will Harvey", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.", "author": "Louis Pasteur", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.", "author": "Carl Jung", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is nothing but perception.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.", "author": "Jeff Bezos", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.", "author": "Brian Greene", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "There are no shortcuts in evolution.", "author": "Louis D. Brandeis", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.", "author": "Arthur M. Schlesinger", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.", "author": "Wernher von Braun", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.", "author": "Adam Smith", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.", "author": "Sally Ride", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.", "author": "Stephen Hawking", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.", "author": "Arthur C. Clarke", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.", "author": "Arnold H. Glasow", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.", "author": "Bruce Feirstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.", "author": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.", "author": "Mary Kay Ash", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.", "author": "John von Neumann", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.", "author": "Niels Bohr", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.", "author": "Muriel Rukeyser", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.", "author": "Margaret Mead", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.", "author": "Max Planck", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.", "author": "Jules Verne", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.", "author": "John Dewey", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.", "author": "Henrik Ibsen", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Art is I; science is we.", "author": "Claude Bernard", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", "author": "Edwin Powell Hubble", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.", "author": "Thomas Huxley", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.", "author": "Konrad Lorenz", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.", "author": "Jean Rostand", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.", "author": "Alan Perlis", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.", "author": "Stephen LaBerge", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.", "author": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.", "author": "George Santayana", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.", "author": "Ashley Montagu", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.", "author": "Rene Descartes", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.", "author": "Jim Lovell", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.", "author": "Gaston Bachelard", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Science is the systematic classification of experience.", "author": "George Henry Lewes", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "One can not impede scientific progress.", "author": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.", "author": "Irving Langmuir", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.", "author": "Lewis Thomas", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.", "author": "Frederick Sanger", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.", "author": "Robert Quillen", "topic": "science" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "author": "William Osler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "author": "Groucho Marx", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "author": "Erma Bombeck", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "author": "Rodney Dangerfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "author": "Anton Chekhov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.", "author": "Mehmet Oz", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "author": "Edwin Way Teale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "author": "Ovid", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "author": "Hippocrates", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "author": "Walter Matthau", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "author": "Dizzy Dean", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.", "author": "Swami Sivananda", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A hospital is no place to be sick.", "author": "Samuel Goldwyn", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "author": "Earl Wilson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "author": "Samuel Hahnemann", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "author": "Plato", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "author": "Edward Everett Hale", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "author": "Ambrose Bierce", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "author": "Hosea Ballou", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.", "author": "Stephen Ambrose", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "author": "Peter Shaffer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "author": "Ben Carson", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.", "author": "Mark Udall", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "author": "Ivan Illich", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "author": "Abe Lemons", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "author": "Thomas Sydenham", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "author": "Rita Rudner", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.", "author": "Maria Shriver", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "author": "Patrick Swayze", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "author": "Jay London", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.", "author": "Frances Farmer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "author": "Michael Landon", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "author": "Alex Chiu", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "author": "Cass Canfield", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "author": "Mary Baker Eddy", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.", "author": "Teri Garr", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "author": "Martin H. Fischer", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "author": "Dianne Feinstein", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "author": "Oliver Cromwell", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "author": "James H. Boren", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "author": "Enid Bagnold", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.", "author": "Patti Davis", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.", "author": "Ramakrishna", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "author": "Bill Frist", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "author": "Jack Kevorkian", "topic": "medical" }, { "quote": "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.", "author": "Charles R. Swindoll", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", "author": "Thomas A. Edison", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you're going through hell, keep going.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "It always seems impossible until it's done.", "author": "Nelson Mandela", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Quality is not an act, it is a habit.", "author": "Aristotle", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Well done is better than well said.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.", "author": "George S. Patton", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.", "author": "H. G. Wells", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The secret of getting ahead is getting started.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.", "author": "Simone de Beauvoir", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.", "author": "Ken Venturi", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.", "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.", "author": "W. Clement Stone", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.", "author": "Sam Levenson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.", "author": "Pope John XXIII", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.", "author": "Og Mandino", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.", "author": "Tony Robbins", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The most effective way to do it, is to do it.", "author": "Amelia Earhart", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.", "author": "Pauline Kael", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.", "author": "Wayne Dyer", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "I am not afraid... I was born to do this.", "author": "Joan of Arc", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.", "author": "Charles R. Swindoll", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", "author": "Thomas A. Edison", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you're going through hell, keep going.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "It always seems impossible until it's done.", "author": "Nelson Mandela", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.", "author": "St. Jerome", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.", "author": "Arthur Ashe", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Quality is not an act, it is a habit.", "author": "Aristotle", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Well done is better than well said.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.", "author": "George S. Patton", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.", "author": "H. G. Wells", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The secret of getting ahead is getting started.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.", "author": "Simone de Beauvoir", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.", "author": "Ken Venturi", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.", "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.", "author": "W. Clement Stone", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.", "author": "Sam Levenson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. 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What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.", "author": "Ken Venturi", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.", "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.", "author": "W. Clement Stone", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.", "author": "Sam Levenson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The most effective way to do it, is to do it.", "author": "Amelia Earhart", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.", "author": "Pauline Kael", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. 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What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. 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What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.", "author": "Ken Venturi", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.", "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.", "author": "W. Clement Stone", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.", "author": "Sam Levenson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.", "author": "Pope John XXIII", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.", "author": "Og Mandino", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.", "author": "Tony Robbins", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.", "author": "Robert H. Schuller", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The most effective way to do it, is to do it.", "author": "Amelia Earhart", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.", "author": "Pauline Kael", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. 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What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. 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What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. 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Fail better.", "author": "Samuel Beckett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "author": "Norman Vincent Peale", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "author": "Walt Disney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.", "author": "Ken Venturi", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.", "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.", "author": "W. Clement Stone", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.", "author": "Sam Levenson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "author": "Bradley Whitford", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Never complain and never explain.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "author": "Bo Jackson", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 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No one can do it for me.", "author": "Carol Burnett", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.", "author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Don't think, just do.", "author": "Horace", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The most effective way to do it, is to do it.", "author": "Amelia Earhart", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.", "author": "Pauline Kael", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "author": "Leo Buscaglia", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.", "author": "Walter Elliot", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Either I will find a way, or I will make one.", "author": "Philip Sidney", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.", "author": "Wayne Dyer", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "I am not afraid... I was born to do this.", "author": "Joan of Arc", "topic": "motivational" }, { "quote": "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.", "author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.", "author": "Francesco Guicciardini", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.", "author": "Yogi Berra", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The time is always right to do what is right.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.", "author": "Matthew Henry", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Fortune favors the prepared mind.", "author": "Louis Pasteur", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Well begun is half done.", "author": "Aristotle", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.", "author": "Marie Curie", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.", "author": "Eldridge Cleaver", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We are what we believe we are.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.", "author": "Tony Robbins", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If youth knew; if age could.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.", "author": "Rene Descartes", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "After all is said and done, more is said than done.", "author": "Aesop", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.", "author": "Wilson Mizner", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.", "author": "Henry Miller", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "What worries you, masters you.", "author": "John Locke", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "To be is to do.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You cannot step into the same river twice.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.", "author": "Andrew Carnegie", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Never mistake motion for action.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Unless we remember we cannot understand.", "author": "E. M. Forster", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", "author": "A. A. Milne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Character is what a man is in the dark.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.", "author": "Jeff Rich", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.", "author": "Saul Bellow", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.", "author": "Thomas Browne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.", "author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.", "author": "Francesco Guicciardini", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.", "author": "Yogi Berra", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The time is always right to do what is right.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.", "author": "Matthew Henry", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Fortune favors the prepared mind.", "author": "Louis Pasteur", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Well begun is half done.", "author": "Aristotle", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.", "author": "Marie Curie", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.", "author": "Eldridge Cleaver", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We are what we believe we are.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.", "author": "Tony Robbins", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If youth knew; if age could.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.", "author": "Rene Descartes", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "After all is said and done, more is said than done.", "author": "Aesop", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.", "author": "Wilson Mizner", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.", "author": "Henry Miller", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "What worries you, masters you.", "author": "John Locke", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "To be is to do.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You cannot step into the same river twice.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.", "author": "Andrew Carnegie", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Never mistake motion for action.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Unless we remember we cannot understand.", "author": "E. M. Forster", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", "author": "A. A. Milne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Character is what a man is in the dark.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.", "author": "Jeff Rich", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.", "author": "Saul Bellow", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.", "author": "Thomas Browne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. 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None so blind as those that will not see.", "author": "Matthew Henry", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Fortune favors the prepared mind.", "author": "Louis Pasteur", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Well begun is half done.", "author": "Aristotle", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.", "author": "Marie Curie", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.", "author": "Eldridge Cleaver", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We are what we believe we are.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.", "author": "Tony Robbins", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. 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Frankl", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.", "author": "Henry Miller", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "What worries you, masters you.", "author": "John Locke", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "To be is to do.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You cannot step into the same river twice.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.", "author": "Andrew Carnegie", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Never mistake motion for action.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Unless we remember we cannot understand.", "author": "E. M. Forster", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", "author": "A. A. Milne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Character is what a man is in the dark.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.", "author": "Jeff Rich", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.", "author": "Saul Bellow", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.", "author": "Thomas Browne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. 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Moody", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.", "author": "Jeff Rich", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.", "author": "Saul Bellow", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.", "author": "Thomas Browne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.", "author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.", "author": "Francesco Guicciardini", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.", "author": "Yogi Berra", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "The time is always right to do what is right.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.", "author": "Desiderius Erasmus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.", "author": "Matthew Henry", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Fortune favors the prepared mind.", "author": "Louis Pasteur", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Well begun is half done.", "author": "Aristotle", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.", "author": "John Wooden", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.", "author": "Marie Curie", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.", "author": "Elon Musk", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.", "author": "Babe Ruth", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.", "author": "Eldridge Cleaver", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We are what we believe we are.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.", "author": "Tony Robbins", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If youth knew; if age could.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.", "author": "Rene Descartes", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "After all is said and done, more is said than done.", "author": "Aesop", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.", "author": "Wilson Mizner", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.", "author": "Ralph Marston", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.", "author": "Henry Miller", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "What worries you, masters you.", "author": "John Locke", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.", "author": "Neil Armstrong", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "To be is to do.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You cannot step into the same river twice.", "author": "Heraclitus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.", "author": "Democritus", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.", "author": "Andrew Carnegie", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Never mistake motion for action.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Unless we remember we cannot understand.", "author": "E. M. Forster", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", "author": "A. A. Milne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Character is what a man is in the dark.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.", "author": "Jeff Rich", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.", "author": "Saul Bellow", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.", "author": "Thomas Browne", "topic": "brainy" }, { "quote": "Whatever good things we build end up building us.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.", "author": "David Allan Coe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.", "author": "Julia Morgan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture begins where engineering ends.", "author": "Walter Gropius", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.", "author": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is the art of how to waste space.", "author": "Philip Johnson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.", "author": "Le Corbusier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.", "author": "Stephen Gardiner", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.", "author": "Frank Gehry", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.", "author": "Thomas a Kempis", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.", "author": "John Osborne", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.", "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.", "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.", "author": "Tadao Ando", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.", "author": "Antoni Gaudi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I call architecture frozen music.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Each new situation requires a new architecture.", "author": "Jean Nouvel", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.", "author": "Louis Kahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.", "author": "Luis Barragan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.", "author": "Maya Lin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Less is more.", "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is inhabited sculpture.", "author": "Constantin Brancusi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.", "author": "Daniel Libeskind", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Form follows function.", "author": "Louis Sullivan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.", "author": "Helmut Jahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.", "author": "Yoshio Taniguchi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.", "author": "John Portman", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.", "author": "Vitruvius", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.", "author": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is invention.", "author": "Oscar Niemeyer", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.", "author": "Toyo Ito", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.", "author": "Kenzo Tange", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.", "author": "Daniel Burnham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.", "author": "Louis Kahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.", "author": "Philip Johnson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.", "author": "Ai Weiwei", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.", "author": "Richard Meier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.", "author": "Harry Seidler", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.", "author": "Donna Karan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.", "author": "Robert A. M. Stern", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!", "author": "T. E. Lawrence", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.", "author": "Stephen Gardiner", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.", "author": "Richard Rogers", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.", "author": "Martha Graham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.", "author": "Tadao Ando", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.", "author": "Bruce Jackson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A house is a machine for living in.", "author": "Le Corbusier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.", "author": "Saul Steinberg", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.", "author": "Luis Barragan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.", "author": "Ernest Dimnet", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Whatever good things we build end up building us.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.", "author": "David Allan Coe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.", "author": "Julia Morgan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture begins where engineering ends.", "author": "Walter Gropius", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.", "author": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is the art of how to waste space.", "author": "Philip Johnson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.", "author": "Le Corbusier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.", "author": "Stephen Gardiner", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.", "author": "Frank Gehry", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.", "author": "Thomas a Kempis", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.", "author": "John Osborne", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.", "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.", "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.", "author": "Tadao Ando", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.", "author": "Antoni Gaudi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I call architecture frozen music.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.", "author": "Ayn Rand", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.", "author": "Voltaire", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Each new situation requires a new architecture.", "author": "Jean Nouvel", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.", "author": "Louis Kahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.", "author": "Luis Barragan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.", "author": "Maya Lin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Less is more.", "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is inhabited sculpture.", "author": "Constantin Brancusi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.", "author": "Daniel Libeskind", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Form follows function.", "author": "Louis Sullivan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.", "author": "Helmut Jahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.", "author": "Yoshio Taniguchi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.", "author": "John Portman", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.", "author": "Vitruvius", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.", "author": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is invention.", "author": "Oscar Niemeyer", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.", "author": "Toyo Ito", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.", "author": "Kenzo Tange", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.", "author": "Daniel Burnham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.", "author": "Louis Kahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.", "author": "Philip Johnson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.", "author": "Ai Weiwei", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.", "author": "Richard Meier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.", "author": "Harry Seidler", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.", "author": "Donna Karan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.", "author": "Robert A. M. Stern", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!", "author": "T. E. Lawrence", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.", "author": "Stephen Gardiner", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.", "author": "Richard Rogers", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.", "author": "Martha Graham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.", "author": "Tadao Ando", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.", "author": "Bruce Jackson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A house is a machine for living in.", "author": "Le Corbusier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.", "author": "Saul Steinberg", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.", "author": "Luis Barragan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.", "author": "Ernest Dimnet", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Whatever good things we build end up building us.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.", "author": "David Allan Coe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.", "author": "Julia Morgan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture begins where engineering ends.", "author": "Walter Gropius", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.", "author": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is the art of how to waste space.", "author": "Philip Johnson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.", "author": "Le Corbusier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.", "author": "Stephen Gardiner", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.", "author": "Frank Gehry", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.", "author": "Thomas a Kempis", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.", "author": "John Osborne", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.", "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.", "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.", "author": "Tadao Ando", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.", "author": "Antoni Gaudi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I call architecture frozen music.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I don't build in order to have clients. 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That's art to me.", "author": "Maya Lin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Less is more.", "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is inhabited sculpture.", "author": "Constantin Brancusi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.", "author": "Daniel Libeskind", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Form follows function.", "author": "Louis Sullivan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Every building is a prototype. 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We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.", "author": "Toyo Ito", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.", "author": "Kenzo Tange", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.", "author": "Daniel Burnham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.", "author": "Louis Kahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.", "author": "Philip Johnson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. 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He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.", "author": "Robert A. M. Stern", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!", "author": "T. E. Lawrence", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.", "author": "Stephen Gardiner", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.", "author": "Richard Rogers", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.", "author": "Martha Graham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. 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We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.", "author": "Toyo Ito", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.", "author": "Kenzo Tange", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.", "author": "Daniel Burnham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.", "author": "Louis Kahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.", "author": "Philip Johnson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. 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He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.", "author": "Robert A. M. Stern", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!", "author": "T. E. 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It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.", "author": "Tadao Ando", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.", "author": "Bruce Jackson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A house is a machine for living in.", "author": "Le Corbusier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.", "author": "Saul Steinberg", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.", "author": "Luis Barragan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.", "author": "Ernest Dimnet", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Whatever good things we build end up building us.", "author": "Jim Rohn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.", "author": "David Allan Coe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.", "author": "Julia Morgan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture begins where engineering ends.", "author": "Walter Gropius", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.", "author": "R. 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That's art to me.", "author": "Maya Lin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Less is more.", "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is inhabited sculpture.", "author": "Constantin Brancusi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.", "author": "Daniel Libeskind", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Form follows function.", "author": "Louis Sullivan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.", "author": "Helmut Jahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.", "author": "Yoshio Taniguchi", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.", "author": "John Portman", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.", "author": "Vitruvius", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.", "author": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is invention.", "author": "Oscar Niemeyer", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.", "author": "Toyo Ito", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.", "author": "Kenzo Tange", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.", "author": "Daniel Burnham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.", "author": "Louis Kahn", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.", "author": "Philip Johnson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.", "author": "Ai Weiwei", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.", "author": "Richard Meier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.", "author": "Harry Seidler", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.", "author": "Donna Karan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.", "author": "Robert A. M. Stern", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!", "author": "T. E. Lawrence", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.", "author": "Stephen Gardiner", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.", "author": "Richard Rogers", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.", "author": "Martha Graham", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.", "author": "Arthur Erickson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.", "author": "Tadao Ando", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.", "author": "Bruce Jackson", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "A house is a machine for living in.", "author": "Le Corbusier", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.", "author": "Saul Steinberg", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.", "author": "John Ruskin", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.", "author": "Luis Barragan", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.", "author": "Ernest Dimnet", "topic": "architecture" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live all the days of your life.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "author": "Julia Child", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "author": "Robert A. Heinlein", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "author": "W. Somerset Maugham", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "author": "Paul Sweeney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "author": "Simone Signoret", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "author": "Zane Grey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.", "author": "Barbara Hershey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "author": "Boris Pasternak", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "author": "Doug Larson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "author": "Jim Carrey", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.", "author": "Aaron Spelling", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "author": "Anne Bancroft", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.", "author": "E. W. Howe", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "author": "Mel Gibson", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "author": "Carson Daly", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "author": "Peter De Vries", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "author": "A. P. Herbert", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "author": "Honore de Balzac", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "author": "Adam Schiff", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "author": "Barbra Streisand", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "author": "Jacques Pepin", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "author": "Mitt Romney", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "author": "Blake Shelton", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "author": "Mac Thornberry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "author": "Patrice Leconte", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "author": "H. L. Mencken", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.", "author": "Teri Polo", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "author": "Caroline Kennedy", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "author": "Chris Daughtry", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "author": "Todd Tiahrt", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "author": "Brad Paisley", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "author": "Kyle Chandler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.", "author": "Isla Fisher", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "author": "William O. Douglas", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.", "author": "Mariella Frostrup", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.", "author": "Sue Townsend", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "author": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "author": "Uta Hagen", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love being my husband's wife.", "author": "Julianna Margulies", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "author": "Jonathan Swift", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.", "author": "Aldo Leopold", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.", "author": "Lady Gaga", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.", "author": "Annie Besant", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.", "author": "Zoe Foster Blake", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.", "author": "Claudia Winkleman", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.", "author": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.", "author": "Wale", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "author": "Felix Adler", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.", "author": "Corey Taylor", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama", "topic": "anniversary" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "author": "John Keats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.", "author": "Minna Antrim", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "True love stories never have endings.", "author": "Richard Bach", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "author": "Mason Cooley", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "author": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "author": "Sinclair Lewis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "author": "Charlie Chaplin", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "author": "Bernard Williams", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'", "author": "Ashton Kutcher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "author": "Joan Chen", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "author": "Jeremy Taylor", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "author": "Johnny Depp", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "author": "Stendhal", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "We only part to meet again.", "author": "John Gay", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.", "author": "William Butler Yeats", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.", "author": "Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "author": "Mae West", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When I give I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love alone could waken love.", "author": "Pearl S. Buck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There is no instinct like that of the heart.", "author": "Lord Byron", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "author": "Paul Simon", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.", "author": "Katharine Lee Bates", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "author": "William Congreve", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "author": "Victor Hugo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "author": "Stephen King", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I love you more than my own skin.", "author": "Frida Kahlo", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "My heart is like a singing bird.", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "author": "Fran Lebowitz", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "author": "Samuel Butler", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.", "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "author": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.", "author": "James Russell Lowell", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "author": "Douglas Horton", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "author": "Glenn Beck", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "All the windows of my heart I open to the day.", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "author": "Freddy Fender", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.", "author": "Edmond de Goncourt", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "Kiss me and you will see how important I am.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.", "author": "Tom Robbins", "topic": "romantic" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.", "author": "Albert Camus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "author": "C. S. Lewis", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "author": "Jesus Christ", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "author": "B. R. Ambedkar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.", "author": "Epictetus", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "author": "Patrick Henry", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "author": "Christopher Hitchens", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "author": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "author": "John Burroughs", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "author": "Saint Ignatius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "author": "Unknown", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Only a god can save us.", "author": "Martin Heidegger", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "author": "Richard Burton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "author": "Pope John Paul II", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "author": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "author": "Paul Valery", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "author": "E. Stanley Jones", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "author": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "author": "Oswald Chambers", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.", "author": "Frederick the Great", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.", "author": "Moses", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "author": "Dwight L. Moody", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "author": "Donna Summer", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "author": "Athanasius", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "author": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "author": "Robert Browning", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.", "author": "Camille Paglia", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "topic": "religion" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "author": "Lewis B. Smedes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "author": "Marianne Williamson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "author": "John F. Kennedy", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "author": "Thomas Szasz", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "To err is human; to forgive, divine.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "author": "Josh Billings", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "author": "Desmond Tutu", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "author": "Emo Philips", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "author": "Bernard Meltzer", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.", "author": "Tyler Perry", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "author": "Scott Adams", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.", "author": "Thomas Fuller", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "author": "Les Brown", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "author": "bell hooks", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "author": "Gerald Jampolsky", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "author": "Joan Lunden", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "author": "T. D. Jakes", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "author": "Henry Ward Beecher", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.", "author": "Francis of Assisi", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "author": "Billy Graham", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "author": "Jane Austen", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "author": "Suzanne Somers", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "author": "Martin Luther", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "author": "Jessica Lange", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "author": "Frederick William Robertson", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.", "author": "George Herbert", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "author": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "author": "Garrison Keillor", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.", "author": "Richard E. Grant", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "author": "Hannah More", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.", "author": "Alan Paton", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "author": "Alfred Korzybski", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "author": "Princess Diana", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "author": "Hannah Arendt", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.", "author": "Mahavira", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.", "author": "Laurence Sterne", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "author": "Corrie Ten Boom", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.", "author": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "author": "Norman Cousins", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "forgiveness" }, { "quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Wherever you go, go with all your heart.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.", "author": "Susan Sontag", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "author": "George A. Moore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.", "author": "Martin Buber", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.", "author": "Cesare Pavese", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to take a journey into yourself.", "author": "Danny Kaye", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.", "author": "Dan Rather", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.", "author": "Frank Borman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?", "author": "George Carlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelling expands the mind rarely.", "author": "Hans Christian Andersen", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.", "author": "W. C. Fields", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.", "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "author": "Mary Ritter Beard", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.", "author": "John Muir", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.", "author": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.", "author": "Giotto di Bondone", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.", "author": "Paul Theroux", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.", "author": "Satchel Paige", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.", "author": "Laurel Clark", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.", "author": "Hilaire Belloc", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.", "author": "Sophie Swetchine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.", "author": "Al Gore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Paris is always a good idea.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'", "author": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.", "author": "George Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "author": "Frances Burney", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "author": "Ella Maillart", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "author": "George Borrow", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "author": "Italo Calvino", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "author": "Robin Leach", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Wherever you go, go with all your heart.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.", "author": "Susan Sontag", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "author": "George A. Moore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.", "author": "Martin Buber", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.", "author": "Cesare Pavese", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to take a journey into yourself.", "author": "Danny Kaye", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.", "author": "Dan Rather", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.", "author": "Frank Borman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?", "author": "George Carlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelling expands the mind rarely.", "author": "Hans Christian Andersen", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.", "author": "W. C. Fields", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.", "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "author": "Mary Ritter Beard", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.", "author": "John Muir", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.", "author": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.", "author": "Giotto di Bondone", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.", "author": "Paul Theroux", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.", "author": "Satchel Paige", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.", "author": "Laurel Clark", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.", "author": "Hilaire Belloc", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.", "author": "Sophie Swetchine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.", "author": "Al Gore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Paris is always a good idea.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'", "author": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.", "author": "George Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "author": "Frances Burney", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "author": "Ella Maillart", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "author": "George Borrow", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "author": "Italo Calvino", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "author": "Robin Leach", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Wherever you go, go with all your heart.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.", "author": "Susan Sontag", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "author": "George A. Moore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.", "author": "Martin Buber", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.", "author": "Cesare Pavese", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to take a journey into yourself.", "author": "Danny Kaye", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.", "author": "Dan Rather", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.", "author": "Frank Borman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?", "author": "George Carlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelling expands the mind rarely.", "author": "Hans Christian Andersen", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.", "author": "W. C. Fields", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.", "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "author": "Mary Ritter Beard", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.", "author": "John Muir", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.", "author": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.", "author": "Giotto di Bondone", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.", "author": "Paul Theroux", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.", "author": "Satchel Paige", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.", "author": "Laurel Clark", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.", "author": "Hilaire Belloc", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.", "author": "Sophie Swetchine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.", "author": "Al Gore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Paris is always a good idea.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'", "author": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.", "author": "George Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! 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It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. 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There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "author": "Frances Burney", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "author": "Ella Maillart", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "author": "George Borrow", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "author": "Italo Calvino", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "author": "Robin Leach", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. 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One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? 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Let your memory be your travel bag.", "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "author": "Mary Ritter Beard", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.", "author": "John Muir", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.", "author": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.", "author": "Giotto di Bondone", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.", "author": "Paul Theroux", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.", "author": "Satchel Paige", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. 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There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "author": "Frances Burney", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "author": "Ella Maillart", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "author": "George Borrow", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "author": "Italo Calvino", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "author": "Robin Leach", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. 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Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Wherever you go, go with all your heart.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.", "author": "Susan Sontag", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "author": "George A. 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One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? 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It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. 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One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? 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It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. 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There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "author": "Frances Burney", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "author": "Ella Maillart", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "author": "George Borrow", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "author": "Italo Calvino", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "author": "Robin Leach", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. 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Moore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.", "author": "Martin Buber", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.", "author": "Cesare Pavese", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to take a journey into yourself.", "author": "Danny Kaye", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.", "author": "Dan Rather", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.", "author": "Frank Borman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? 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Let your memory be your travel bag.", "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "author": "Mary Ritter Beard", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.", "author": "John Muir", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.", "author": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.", "author": "Giotto di Bondone", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.", "author": "Paul Theroux", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.", "author": "Satchel Paige", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. 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There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "author": "Frances Burney", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "author": "Ella Maillart", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "author": "George Borrow", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "author": "Italo Calvino", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "author": "Robin Leach", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Wherever you go, go with all your heart.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.", "author": "Susan Sontag", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "author": "George A. Moore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.", "author": "Martin Buber", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.", "author": "Cesare Pavese", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to take a journey into yourself.", "author": "Danny Kaye", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.", "author": "Dan Rather", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.", "author": "Frank Borman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?", "author": "George Carlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelling expands the mind rarely.", "author": "Hans Christian Andersen", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.", "author": "W. C. Fields", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.", "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "author": "Mary Ritter Beard", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.", "author": "John Muir", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.", "author": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.", "author": "Giotto di Bondone", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.", "author": "Paul Theroux", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.", "author": "Satchel Paige", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.", "author": "Laurel Clark", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.", "author": "Hilaire Belloc", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.", "author": "Sophie Swetchine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.", "author": "Al Gore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Paris is always a good idea.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'", "author": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.", "author": "George Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "author": "Frances Burney", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "author": "Ella Maillart", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "author": "George Borrow", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "author": "Italo Calvino", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "author": "Robin Leach", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. S. Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Wherever you go, go with all your heart.", "author": "Confucius", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.", "author": "Saint Augustine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.", "author": "Susan Sontag", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.", "author": "Matsuo Basho", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "author": "George A. Moore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.", "author": "Buddha", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.", "author": "Martin Buber", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.", "author": "Aldous Huxley", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.", "author": "Cesare Pavese", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "author": "Anais Nin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To travel is to take a journey into yourself.", "author": "Danny Kaye", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.", "author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.", "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.", "author": "Dan Rather", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.", "author": "Frank Borman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "author": "Lin Yutang", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?", "author": "George Carlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelling expands the mind rarely.", "author": "Hans Christian Andersen", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.", "author": "W. C. Fields", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.", "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "author": "Mary Ritter Beard", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.", "author": "Lawrence Durrell", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.", "author": "John Muir", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.", "author": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.", "author": "Giotto di Bondone", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.", "author": "Paul Theroux", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.", "author": "Henny Youngman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.", "author": "Satchel Paige", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "author": "Clifton Fadiman", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "author": "Truman Capote", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.", "author": "Laurel Clark", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.", "author": "Hilaire Belloc", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.", "author": "Sophie Swetchine", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.", "author": "Al Gore", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Paris is always a good idea.", "author": "Audrey Hepburn", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.", "author": "William Blake", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'", "author": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.", "author": "George Eliot", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "author": "Frances Burney", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "author": "Ella Maillart", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "author": "George Borrow", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!", "author": "Edmund Burke", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "author": "Italo Calvino", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "author": "Mignon McLaughlin", "topic": "travel" }, { "quote": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "author": "Robin Leach", "topic": "travel" } ]; class FactOfTheDay { constructor() { this._config = config; this.settings = Data.load(this._config.info.name, "settings"); } start() { this.settings = Data.load(this._config.info.name, "settings") || defaultSettings; if (Data.load(this._config.info.name, "settings") == null) this.saveAndUpdate(); this.checkForChangelog(); if (this.settings.dailyRequests) { const lastRequest = Data.load(this._config.info.name, "lastRequest") || 0; if (!(Object.entries(this.settings).length === 0 && Date.now() - lastRequest > 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)) this.createRequest(); Data.save(this._config.info.name, "lastRequest", Date.now().toString()); } } stop() { } getSettingsPanel() { for (const setting of this._config.settingsPanel) { if (this.settings[setting.id] !== undefined) { setting.value = this.settings[setting.id]; } } return UI.buildSettingsPanel({ settings: this._config.settingsPanel, onChange: (category, id, value) => { this.settings[id] = value; this.saveAndUpdate(); }, }) } saveAndUpdate() { Data.save(this._config.info.name, "settings", this.settings); } createRequest() { const isQuote = this.settings.requestsType === "quote"; // Select random entry const entry = isQuote ? quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length)] : facts[Math.floor(Math.random() * facts.length)]; // Compose message content const content = isQuote ? `📜 Quote: "${entry.quote}" - ${entry.author}` : `🔍 Fact: ${entry.fact} - ${entry.source}`; // Log to console and plugin logger const logLabel = isQuote ? "Quote" : "Fact"; console.log(`[FactOfTheDay] ${logLabel}:`, entry); Logger.log(this._config.info.name, `Displayed ${logLabel.toLowerCase()}:`, entry); // Show UI notice UI.showNotice(content, { type: "info", timeout: 5 * 60 * 1000 }); // FOR FUTURE USE // UI.showNotification({ // id: this._config.info.name, // content: content, // type: "info", // duration: Infinity, // actions: [ // { // label: "Close", // } // ] // }); } checkForChangelog() { try { let currentVersionInfo = {}; try { currentVersionInfo = Object.assign({}, { version: this._config.info.version, hasShownChangelog: false }, Data.load(this._config.info.name, "currentVersionInfo")); } catch (err) { currentVersionInfo = { version: this._config.info.version, hasShownChangelog: false }; } if (this._config.info.version != currentVersionInfo.version) currentVersionInfo.hasShownChangelog = false; currentVersionInfo.version = this._config.info.version; Data.save(this._config.info.name, "currentVersionInfo", currentVersionInfo); if (!currentVersionInfo.hasShownChangelog) { UI.showChangelogModal({ title: "FactOfTheDay Changelog", subtitle: this._config.info.version, changes: this._config.changelog }); currentVersionInfo.hasShownChangelog = true; Data.save(this._config.info.name, "currentVersionInfo", currentVersionInfo); } } catch (err) { Logger.error(this._config.info.name, err); } } } module.exports = FactOfTheDay;