Category Archives: Notable Quotables

“There can be no friendship without confidence and no confidence without integrity.” — Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet and playwright; creator of first English dictionary

“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.” — André Maurois (1885-1967) French author

“Character is like a tree and reputation a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American statesman; 16th U.S. President: 1861-65; assassinated following Civil War

  “A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” — William Arthur Ward (1921 – 1994) American motivational writer

“We have not forgotten, nor will we. We live in a world made more free, more just, and more peaceful by those who will answer roll call no more, those who will report for muster never again. We do remember … Continue reading →

  “Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.” — Wilferd A. Peterson (1900 – 1995) American author & … Continue reading →

  “Confidence is a very fragile thing.” — Joe Montana (1956-  ) American former NFL quarterback

“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” — Mark Twain (1835-1910) (Pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 19th Century American author and humorist

  “A party without cake is just a meeting.” — Julia Child (1912 – 2004) American cooking expert, author & TV personality  

“Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing!  You see things, not as they are, but as you are.” — Eric Butterworth (1916 – 2003) Canadian-American metaphysical author and Unity minister

  “The trick is in what one emphasizes.  We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Castaneda (1925 – 1998) Peruvian-American writer

“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.” — Amelia Earhart (1897 – disappeared 1937) American aviation pioneer & writer

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” — Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) Lebanese-American writer & poet This is Veterans Day. Thank you to all veterans on this and every day.

“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” — Alex Karras (1935 – 2012) American football player; NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame 2020

  “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” — Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) American industrialist; founder of Ford Motor Company

“It’s the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.” — Sam Ewing (1921 – 2001) American journalist, author, and humorist

  “Two monologues do not make a dialogue.” — Jeff Daly American podcast host of the Daly Dose of Veterans Intel

  “When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.” –Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) 2nd US Vice President; 3rd US President; architect & author

  “If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.” — Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) (given name: Armand Jean du Plessis) French statesman and clergy

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” — … Continue reading →

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American guitarist, songwriter, and singer

  “Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.” — Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) English writer & philosopher

  “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” — Unknown

  “When angry, count ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.” — Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826) 3rd president of the United States; diplomat, architect, and philosopher (in a letter to T.J. Smith on February 21, 1825)

  “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) French philosopher and writer    

“It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.” — H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) American journalist and cultural critic

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” — Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) American First Lady (1934 – 45)

“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 – 1927) Indian professor of musicology

    “Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.” — Charles D. Brodhead (1827 – 1913) Grocery clerk & postmaster; served in PA House of Representatives

  “I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”  — Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694 – 1778) French writer & philosopher

  “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” — Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) French military commander & emperor

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English playwright, poet & actor (from “All’s Well That Ends Well”)

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” — T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Nobel Prize-winning American poet, playwright, & editor

  “Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.” — Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) English-American film director & producer

We humans have so much to learn. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” — Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

I can think of no better person to toast a remembrance rum punch to than the King of Island Escapism… Jimmy Buffett. “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” — Jimmy Buffett (1946 – 2023) American musician, singer, … Continue reading →

“When two elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled.”  — African proverb