attitude quotes and sayings

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. ~George Aiken


Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ~Samuel Johnson


A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ~Carol Shields


A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. ~Franklin P. Jones


Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper, 1929 (Thanks, Jeff)


I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him. ~Allan Wells, referring to Carl Lewis, 1989


Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown


History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ~Alexis de Tocqeville, 1856


Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~John Wain


Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. ~Philip Melanchthen


When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. ~Author Unknown


If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec


One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness. ~Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964


A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle


Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.


It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ~Henry David Thoreau


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An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~James A. Michener, Space


I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke


The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb