Famous Quotations by Dave Mckay (best short books to read TXT) 📕

Goldie Hawn (1945- ), American actor, film director and producer

What the sun is to flowers,

smiles are to people.

Author unknown

13. Love

Love is, above all other things,

the giving of yourself.

Jean Anouilh (1910-1987), Ardèle (1949), page 79

We may give without loving,

but we cannot love without giving.

Bernard Meltzer (1916-1998), Harvard graduate and radio show host

A person who does not love

does not know God;

for God is love.

The Bible, I John 4:8

Hell, madam, is to love no more.

Georgs Bernanos (1888-1948), French author and WWI soldier

Let those love now, who never loved before.

Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Pervigilium Veneris (translated by Thomas Parnell, 1722)

It is better to have loved and lost

than never to have loved at all.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902), English author

Love is being able and willing

to let those that you care for

be what they choose for themselves without

telling them that they must do what you choose.

Wayne Dyer (1940- ), American self-help author and lecturer

Knowledge makes you feel important,

but love helps you

to make others feel important.

The Bible, I Corinthians 8:1

Love...

and after that, do what you want.

St Augustine of Hippo (354-430), philosopher and theologian,

Epistolam Joannis ad Parthos (AD 413)

One who has not loved has not lived.

John Gay (1685-1732), The Captives (1724), act 2, scene 2

No one is born hating another person

because of the colour of his skin,

or his way of life, or his religion.

People must learn to hate,

and if they can learn to hate,

they can be taught to love,

for love comes more naturally

to the human heart than its opposite.

Nelson Mandela (1918- 2013 ), former President of South Africa

We are not held back

by love we didn’t receive in the past,

but by love we’re not giving out in the present.

Marianne Williamson (1952- ), author, lecturer and spiritual activist

They pray well who love well.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834),

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), part 7

Where there is great love

there are always miracles.

Willa Cather (1843-1947), American novelist who wrote of frontier life

I did the worst to him I loved the most.

Laxdaela Saga (c. 12 century); the words of Gudrun

Those have most power to hurt us that we love.

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616). and John Fletcher (1579-1625),

The Maid’s Tragedy (written 1610-1611), act 5

A bell’s not a bell until you ring it.

A song’s not a song until you sing it.

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.

Love isn’t love until you give it away!

Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), American theatrical producer

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hate, let me plant love.

St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), "Prayer of St. Francis"

The greatest love

is to give your life for a friend.

Jesus Christ, John 15:13

The only good life

is the one that is lived for others.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German physicist, Defining Success

To keep the body, mind, and heart in parallel strength

one must exercise, study, and love.

Karl von Bonstetten (1745-1832), Swiss writer

Anything will give up its secrets

if you love it enough.

When I talk to the little peanut,

it gives up its secrets.

and when I quietly talk with people they give up

their secrets also -- if you love them enough.

George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

American scientist, inventor, and educator

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright

The weather and love are the two things

about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman (1952- ), Here on Earth

It is easier to know man in general

than to know one man as a person.

Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French author

It is a far far better thing I do

than ever I have done.

It is a far far better rest that I go to

than I have ever known before.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), book 3,

chapter 15 (by a man who was going to die for another man)

We must love one another, or die!

W. H. Auden (1907-1973), September 1, 1939 (1940)

Hear the other side.

St Augustine of Hippo (354-430), philosopher and theologian

Love is like a virus.

It can happen to anyone at any time.

Maya Angelou (1923- ), American author and poet

Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher (1905-1991), American baseball manager

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Evan Davis (1962- ), British TV presenter and economist

It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys

are winners before the game even starts.

Addison "Mort" Walker (1923- ), comic illustrator

14. To Make You Laugh

Laughing is the best medicine.

Author unknown

A joke’s a very serious thing.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764), English poet and satirist

Looking at life through the wrong end

of a telescope is what I do.

And that helps me to laugh at life’s problems.

Dr. Seuss (1904-1991). American writer, poet, and cartoonist

Laugh until it helps!

Laugh Club motto

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself.

After all, you could be missing out on

the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries), (1934- ),

Australian artist, comedian, auhor, film producer, and character actor.

People are different

from all other animals

because we can laugh.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English writer and politican,

The Spectator No. 494 (26 September 1712)

The most wasted day of all

is that in which we have not laughed.

Sebastian R. N. Chamfort (1741-1794), French writer

Mix a little foolishness with your wisdom.

It's good to be foolish at the right time.

Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Roman lyric poet

Jokes can be rubber swords. They let you

make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch, teacher of humorous writing

There is a foolish corner

in the brain of the wisest man.

Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher, student of Plato

An onion can make people cry,

but there has never been a vegetable invented

to make them laugh.

Will Rogers (1879-1935), American cowboy and comedian

Laughing is the sun

that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer and statesman

I've known what it is to be hungry,

but I always went straight to a restaurant.

Ring Lardner (1885-1933), American author and humourist

If I called the wrong number,

why did you answer the phone?

James Thurber (1894-1961), New Yorker, June 5, 1937

I hope that when I die, people say about me,

‘That guy sure owed me a lot of money.’

Jack Handey (1949- ), Deep Thoughts

If I were two-faced,

would I be wearing this one?

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), former U.S. President

God gives men a brain and a penis,

but only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams (1951- 2014), American actor and comedian

This is the sixth book I’ve written, which isn’t

bad for a guy who’s only read two.

George Burns (1896-1996), American actor, comedian, and writer

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed

and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner (1901-1963), American comic actor, writer, and director

I do not mind what language

they sing an opera in,

so long as it is a language I don’t understand

.

Edward Appleton, Observer 28 August 1955

I know that God won’t give me more trouble

than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he

wouldn’t trust me so much.

Sister Teresa (1910-1997), Albanian missionary to India

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Author unknown

When Solomon said

there was a time and place for everything

he had not yet faced the problem

of parking a car.

Bob Edwards (1947- ), American radio broadcaster

Some scientists say that the future will be just

like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek (1937-2000), American science fiction writer

Not Hercules could have knocked out his brains,

for he had none.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright

The reason lightning doesn’t hit twice

in the same place

is that the same place

isn’t there the second time.

Willie Tyler (1940), American ventriloquist, comedian and actor

If wisdom were on sale in the open market,

the stupid would not even ask the price.

Author unknown

The weather: Everyone talks about it,

but no one does anything about it.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author and humourist

Money is the opposite of the weather.

Nobody talks about it,

but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson, author of And Sometimes Why, in ‘Vogue’

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places.

He told me to quit going to those places.

Henny Youngman (1906-1998), American comedian and violinist

There is no human problem which could not be

fixed if people would simply do as I say.

Gore Vidal (1925- )

I don’t want to belong to any club

that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film star

First the doctor told me the good news: I was

going to have a sickness named after me.

Steve Martin

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Erma Bombeck

In Paris they simply looked at me

when I spoke to them in French.

I never was able to make those crazy people

understand their language.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author and humourist

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884), American writer and artist

Speak in French

when you can’t think of the English for a thing.

Lewis Caroll (1832-1898), English author, mathematician,

and photographer, most remembered for writing Alice in Wonderland

You know you’re getting old

when you bend to tie your shoestrings

and ask yourself what else you can do

while you’re down there.

George Burns (1896-1996), American actor, comedian, and writer

If cars had followed the computer's pattern,

they would today cost one hundred dollars,

get a million miles to the gallon,

and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely (Mark Stephens, 1953- ), InfoWorld magazine

I cannot say that I do not disagree with you.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film star

How young can you be and still die of old age?

Steven Wright (1955- ), American comedian, actor, and writer

No one goes there these days.

It's too crowded.

Yogi Berra (1925- ), American baseball player and manager

A girl with a brain

should do more with it than think.

Anita Loos (1893-1981), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925)

Death is nature’s way

of telling you to slow down.

American life insurance proverb, Newsweek, 25 April, 1960

If God had wanted us to fly,

he would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks (1926- ), American comedian, actor, film produer and

director, screenwriter, and composer

Whoever called it necking

is a poor judge of the human body.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film star

The one who laughs last

laughs best.

John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), English architect and dramatist

15. Bad Habits

I’m not so think as you drunk I am.

J.C. Squire

You’re not drunk

if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

When angry, count to four;

when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author and humourist

I kissed my first girl

and smoked my first cigarette

on the same day.

I haven’t had time for tobacco since.

Arturo Toscanini

Chains of habit are too light to be felt

until they are too heavy to be broken.

Warren Buffett (1930- ), one of the wealthiest people in the world

A human being has a natural desire to have

more of a good thing than he needs.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), Following the Equator

Wine laughs at you,

and strong drink shouts at you in anger.

The Bible, Proverbs 20:1

At the first cup, you drink wine.

At the second cup, wine drinks wine.

After that, wine drinks you.

Author unknown

Free yourselves from the slavery of

tea and coffee and other kettle waste.

William Cobbett

That’s all that drugs and alcohol do.

They cut off your emotions in the end.

Ringo Star (1940- )

It is best to hide that we are stupid,

but it is hard to do this

when we relax over wine.

Heraclitus (540-480 BC), On the Universe

Smoking is ugly to the eye,

bad to the nose,

and dangerous to the brain and lungs.

James I (James VI of Scotland), (1566-1625),

A Counterblast to Tobacco (1604),

16. Actions

What you’ve done becomes the judge

of what you’re going to do –

especially in other people’s minds.

William Least Heat Moon (1939- ), American travel writer

of part Osage Nation origin

A tree is known by its fruit.

Jesus, Matthew 12:33

Think before you act;

but think after you act too.

Vinobha Bhave (1895-1982), Indian advocate of nonviolence,

and successor to Gandhi

Thinking well is good;

planning well is better;

doing well is best.

Persian proverb

Being smart is understanding quickly;

but ability is acting well on the thing

after you understand it.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), English mathematician,

Dialogues (1954), 15 December, 1939

There is much that one can do

who does both act and know.

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), English poet and parliamentarian,

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland (1650),

Let him that would move the world,

first move himself.

Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher

Starting is half the job.

Horace (65-8 BC), Roman poet, Epistles book no. 2, line 1

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Richard Cumberland (1631-1718), English philosopher and bishop

Good is best when you do it quickly.

Waiting to do it will come to nothing.

Robert Southwell (c. 1561-1595), Loss in Delays (1595)

Think globally; act locally.

Patrick Geddes (1854-1932), Scottish biologist and town planner

Faith without works is dead.

The Bible, James 2:20

History is philosophy in action.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (60-7 BC), Greek historian and teacher

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American author and journalist

I will travel through this life but one time.

Any good thing that I can do

or any kind act that I can show

to any other person, I must do now.

I must not put it off, or choose not to do it,

for I will not come this way again.

Stephen Grellet (1773-1855), Quaker missionary

The world is divided into people who

do things and people who get the credit.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first group.

There’s far less competition.

Dwight Morrow (1873-1931), American politician and businessman

Our bodies are our gardens.

Our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright

Where there’s a will there’s a way.

Mid seventeenth century proverb

17. Hard Work

Man is made great or small by his own will.

J.C.F. von Schiller (1759-1805), German historian, poet, playwright

Moving mountains starts with a good shovel.

Anonymous

Work is life and good work is good life.

J. W. Elliot (1833-1915), English composer

Far and away the best that life can give

is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the U.S.

If you have much ability,

work will make it better.

If you have little ability,

work will make up the difference.

Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Discourses on Art (1769)

Give your heart to God,

and your hand to work.

Swami Omkar (1895-1982), Indian holy man

Work is love that we can see.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), The Prophet (1923), ‘On Work’

A smart person who will not work

is like a cloud without rain.

Author unknown

The only place