Category: Quotes

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

—Words of Life

http://www.abebooks.com/WORDS-LIFE-Charles-L-Wallis-Harper/1072792760/bd

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

–Emily Post

http://www.emilypost.com/emily-post

You don’t raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

–Walter Schirra Sr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra#Early_life_and_education

Never marry for money. Ye’ll borrow it cheaper.

–Scottish Proverb

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

–Plato

http://www.egs.edu/library/plato/biography/l

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

–Seneca

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/534392/Lucius-Annaeus-Seneca

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

–Mother Teresa of Calcutta

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/838305.Mother_Teresa/

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

–Charles Dickens

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/dickens_charles.shtml

A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.

–Farmers Almanac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers’_Almanac

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

–J.M. Barrie

http://www.biography.com/people/jm-barrie-9200058