Quotes of the Day

[Mohamed]

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

[Mohamed]

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

[Mohamed]

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

William Shakespeare

[Mohamed]

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881

[Mohamed]

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill

[Mohamed]

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac 1799 - 1850

[Mohamed]

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

[Mohamed]

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

Kathleen A. Sutton

[Mohamed]

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.

Nancy Astor 1879 - 1964

[Mohamed]

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

[Mohamed]

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962

[Mohamed]

When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides 484 BC - 406 BC

[Mohamed]

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773

[jackluis2008]

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

[Mohamed]

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray