Famous Marriage quotes collection

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
~ Rita Rudner

"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one"
~ John Keats

"A successul marriage requires falling in love many time, always with the same person."
~ Unknown

"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together."
~ Robert C. Dodds

"Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."
~ Mark Twain

Famous quotes collection on Truth

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
~ Mark Twain

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it."
~ Emily Dickinson

"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
~ David Hume

"It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak and another to hear."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
~ Galileo

"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."
~ Gloria Steinem

"When in doubt, tell the truth."
~ Mark Twain

"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies."
~ Noam Chomsky

"Truth is our element."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Famous quotes on Patriotism

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
~ Mark Twain

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."
~ P.J O'Rourke

"Who saves his country violates no law."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism"
~ George Orwell

"I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."
~ Henry James

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
~ Edward Abbey

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country."
~ Bertrand Russell

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain"
~ George McGovern

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
~ Pablo Casals

Famous quotes on self acceptance

"Self acceptance is the freedom to see oneself without denial".
~ Nathaniel Branden


"You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you".
~ Dr. Robert Anthony.

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval".
~ Mark Twain

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them".
~ Albert Einstein

"To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities".
~ Brian Tracy

Famous Courage quotes, sayings on Bravery

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
~ Sven Goran Eriksson

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
~ Jesse Jackson

“The key to change... is to let go of fear.”
~ Rosanne Cash

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
~ John Maxwell

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
~ William Shedd

"Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
~ Samuel Johnson

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
~ Mark Twain

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow"
~ Dan Rather

"A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage."
~ Marvin Kitman

Famous Faith quotes and sayings collection

"Your faith is what you believe, not what you know."
~ Mark Twain

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
~ Henry Mencken

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge."
~ Adolf Hitler

"Duty cannot exist without faith."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words."
~ Nachman of Bratslav

"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."
~ Mother Teresa

"I would rather err on the side of faith than on the side of doubt."
~ Robert Schuller

"Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark."
~ Rabindranath Tagore

"Faith is like radar that sees through the fog."
~ Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

Famous quotes and sayings on Anger

“When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.”
~ Mark Twain

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
~ Albert Einstein

“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
~ Dr. Laurence J. Peter

“When anger rises, think of the consequences”
~ Confucius

“Anger always comes from frustrated expectations”
~ Elliott Larson

"Anger is one letter short of danger."
~ Unknown

"Anger is short-lived madness."
~ Horace

"Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him."
~ Louis L'Armour

"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
~ Jacqueline Schiff

Famous forgiveness quotes - Humanity sayings

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

~ Alexander Pope

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart . . . Forgiveness saves expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits"

~ Hannah Mor

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

~ Honore de Balzac

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

~ Josh Billings

"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."

~ Isabelle Holland

"Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And he invites us all to forgive each other."

~ unknown

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

~ Jean Paul Richter

"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."

~ George MacDonald

"Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me."

~ unknown

Famous quotes on honesty and truth

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything"
~ Mark Twain

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
~ William Shakespeare

“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”
~ Brigham Young

"With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back."
~ Russian proverb

"Truth fears no questions."
~ Author Unknown

"I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."
~ Samuel Butler

"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half."
~ Author Unknown

"Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it."
~ Emily Dickinson

Famous quotes on genius - collection

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.”
~ Mark Twain quotes

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
~ Bruce Feirstein

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
~ Oscar Levant

"Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius."
~ Madame de Stael

"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
~ William James

"Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together."
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
~ Fulton J. Sheen

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein

"Great men grow tired of contentedness."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."
~ Joey Adams

"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
~ Samuel T. Coleridge

Mark Twain famous quotes collection

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Famous quotes on happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
~ Mark Twain

Happiness does not depend on outward things,but on the way we see them."
~ Leo Tolstoy

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
~ Denis Waitley

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~ Albert Schweitzer

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
~ Anne Frank

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient
~ Aristotle

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
~ Lord Budha

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
~ John Barrymore

Independence is happiness.
~ Susan B. Anthony

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh