love and strength quotes

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. ~George Foreman



The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about. ~Author Unknown The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches. ~Author Unknown



There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell



Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920



Our lives are like quilts - bits and pieces, joy and sorrow, stitched with love. ~Author Unknown



A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. ~Francis Bacon, Essays



Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~Jerome K. Jerome



Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life. ~Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003



Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey. ~"Pappy" Maverick, in Maverick Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein



We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton



About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese. ~Sir Thomas More



The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ~William Shenstone



Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ~Romans 13:10



A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ~Herbert V. Prochnow



Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. ~William Dyer



Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter



Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~Henri Frederic Amiel