"A thing of beauty is a joy forever:/nIts loveliness increases; it will never/nPass into nothingness; but still will keep/nA bower quiet for us, and a sleep/nFull of sweet dreams, and health,/nand quiet breathing." John Keats, Endymion Bk. i, I
"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms, until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." Abraham Lincoln, Speech, July 10, 1858
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
"Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it." (Qui gratus futurus est, statim, dum accipit, de reddendo cogitet.) - SENECA -  De Beneficiis Bk. ii, ch. 25, sec. 3
"A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit." (Clabus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.) Erasmus, Diluculum
"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Hebrews 8:2
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Samuel Johnson, (Boswell, Life)
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." Henry Mencken 
"Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional." Chris Antonak
"Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough." Groucho Marx
"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." Tom Stoppard
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln
"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else." Ogden Nash
"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." Plato
"My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle." Henny Youngman
"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." Oliver Wendell Holmes 
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought." Emily Dickinson
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." Oliver Wendell Holmes    
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." Oliver Wendell Holmes 
"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." Theodore Roosevelt 
"One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child." Wayne Dyer 
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher." Elbert Hubbard    
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book." Marcel Proust    
"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." Carl Jung    
"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk." Carl Jung 
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." C.S. Lewis    
"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult." C.S. Lewis    
"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old." Victor Hugo 
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society." Benjamin Franklin 
"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry." Bill Cosby 
"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else." George Dennison Prentice
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes." Douglas Adams 
"Stand-up comedy is transient. History shows that you can stand up for so long; after that, you're asked to sit down." Steve Martin 
"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." Henny Youngman 
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." Orson Welles 
"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed." William Jennings Bryan    
"I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work." Leo Gallagher 
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." Woody Allen    
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" Abraham Lincoln 
"Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know." Bill Gates 
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." Elbert Hubbard    
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." Elbert Hubbard    
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." George Washington    
"Those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee." Tacitus    
"My friends are my estate." Emily Dickinson 
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know." Ralph Waldo Emerson    
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." Oscar Wilde    
"No human relation gives one possession in another...every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone." Kahlil Gibran    
"A friend is the hope of the heart." Ralph Waldo Emerson 
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." Robert Southey 
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." Eleanor Roosevelt 
"A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be." Ann D. Parrish 
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." Albert Camus    
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." Baltasar Gracian    
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." Helen Keller    
"Trouble shared is trouble halved." Dorothy Sayers 
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." Ralph Waldo Emerson    
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." Ralph Waldo Emerson    
"A friend is one before whom you may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson    
"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend." Oliver Wendell Holmes    
"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise." Oliver Wendell Holmes    
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." Thomas Edison 
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." George Washington 
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." Aristotle 
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." Aristotle    
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." Dale Carnegie    
"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them." Charles Caleb Colton    
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." C.S. Lewis    
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'" C.S. Lewis    
"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities." C.S. Lewis    
"A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." Samuel Johnson    
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion." Mahatma Gandhi
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." Edgar Watson Howe    
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" Abraham Lincoln    
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend." Morgan Freeman    
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend." Martin Luther King Jr.    
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." 
"The love we give away is the only love we keep." Elbert Hubbard    
"Life in abundance comes only through great love." Elbert Hubbard 
"Love is repaid by love alone!" Mother Teresa 
"My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out." Abraham Lincoln
"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better." William Shakespeare 
"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is." Elbert Hubbard    
"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible." Marcel Proust    
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." Marcel Proust    
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust    
"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable." Tacitus    
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." Mark Twain    
"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." John Locke    
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." Carl Jung 
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Joseph Addison    
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." Mark Twain 
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment." Samuel Johnson    
"Happiness is so hard to define and foolish to define. Am I acting? That's the worst thing you can ask yourself. You can be happy suddenly. It can spring on you, not when you reach a plateau. You can be happy going backward or going down. You can be happy at the loss of something." Steve Martin 
"A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness." Mother Teresa    
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." Henry Ward Beecher    
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." Bertrand Russell    
"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." Friedrich Nietzsche 
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Burton Hills    
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne    
"The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much." Mel Gibson    
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." Joseph Addison    
"Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness." Oliver Wendell Holmes    
"Start off every day with a smile and get it over with." W.C. Fields    
"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." Ernest Hemingway    
"Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy." Anne Frank    
"People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln    
"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness." Baltasar Gracian    
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of." Albert Camus    
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain    
"Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it." Roger Ebert    
"Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool." Oliver Wendell Holmes    
"Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." John F. Kennedy    
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." George Washington    
"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." Marguerite Gardiner Blessington    
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle 
"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." Dale Carnegie    
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." Dale Carnegie    
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." Dale Carnegie    
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." Robert Frost    
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." Christopher Morley    
"Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age." Christopher Morley    
"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction." C.S. Lewis    
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Theodor Seuss Geisel    
"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes." C.S. Lewis    
"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from." C.S. Lewis    
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." C.S. Lewis    
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." Mother Teresa    
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." Mother Teresa    
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." Roy Goodman    
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves." James Matthew Barrie 
