thomas edison quotes
Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there. ~Author Unknown
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. ~Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino
The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew Holmes
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. ~Heinrich Heine
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~Author Unknown
For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ~Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist
Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing. Tree: The other method. ~Author Unknown
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford
Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ~Richard Carlson
Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker. ~William Green
