quotes on rainy day

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. ~Muhammad Ali



Two souls, one heart. ~French saying used on poesy rings



The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. ~John Adams



But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. ~Deuteronomy 32:15



War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~John Stewart Mill



We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. ~Peter Drucker



They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ~Francis Bacon



The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892



The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~Bill Veeck



If you're enjoying your depression, then for goodness sake do not go skipping. ~Jessi Lane Adams



The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb



Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. ~Richard Cowper



Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ~Samuel Johnson



The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale



I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. ~Anais Nin



If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit



If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith



Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown's Book of Political Quotations, 1982



Few great men could pass personnel. ~Paul Goodman