michelle lee

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. ~Theodore Roosevelt



And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ~G.K. Chesterton



What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931



Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~Havelock Ellis



You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. ~Author Unknown



There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton



Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. ~Josephine Demott Robinson



Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974



No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb



If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. ~Robert Townsend



I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. ~Sigmund Freud



Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~Abraham Lincoln



Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed



As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. ~James Madison



The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~Lin Yutang



Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ~Proverbs 26:27



A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858



Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes



I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. ~G.M. Trevelyan