Famous quotes by Authors

"Love is the same as like, except you feel sexier"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Advertising is legalized lying"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Do all things with love"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you"

James Lane Allen, Author

James Lane Allen

"A man is known by the silence he keeps"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

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