inspirational quotes on pictures

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ~H.L. Mencken



No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ~Henry Adams



When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~Bernard Baily



It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle



If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese



It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. ~Harold Geneen



Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. ~Maya Angelou



As long as we live, there is never enough singing. ~Martin Luther



Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor



Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. ~Pope John XXIII



The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb



Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb



If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! ~George Macaulay Trevelyan



I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau



Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. ~Author Unknown



We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. ~Wendell Phillips



Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. ~Author Unknown



Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996



The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken



Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb