Morning Coffee Quotes

Flowers at Disney's Animal Kingdom Park - photo by Cindy Caraway (June 2010)

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."

- C.S. Lewis

"We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage."
- Aristotle

"By and by never comes."
- St. Augustine

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
- Oscar Wilde

"Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart."
- Unknown

"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."
- Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)

"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."
- Winston Churchill

"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."
- Joseph Conrad (Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)

"Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
- Richard Bach

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
- George S. Patton

"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important...They do not mean to do harm...They are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
- T.S. Eliot

"An overdose of praise is like ten lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it."
- Emily Post

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
- Calvin Coolidge

"Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost."
- Paul Bowles

"My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already."
- Milton Berle

"It is more shameful to distrust ones friends than to be deceived by them."
- François duc de la Rochefoucauld

"How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?"
- Michael Josephson

"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post."
- L. Thomas Holdcroft

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
- Kahlil Gibran