Quotes
Quotes about Pen
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Gratitude is expensive.
Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.
Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.
Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
Happiness seems to be the result of something happening â inactivity is not very exhilarating.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.
A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. â¢Evander Holyfield The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. â¢Deepak Chopra Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. â¢Ovid Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson A heart in love with beauty never grows old. â¢Turkish Proverb To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Seeds, like hearts must open to grow. -Carol Horos.
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he/she has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to her. Thanks to Hetty Watters -Jalal-Uddin Rumi.
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. -Michael Bridge.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? -Seneca.
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. -Deepak Chopra.
