Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today.
Said a hunted fox followed by twenty horsemen and a pack of twenty hounds, "Of course they will kill me. But how poor and how stupid they must be. Surely it would not be worth while for twenty foxes riding on twenty asses and accompanied by twenty wolves to chase and kill one man." -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath.
Love your enemies. It will make them crazy.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other things as well -Amish saying
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.