• A great affair covers up a small matter.~ Beninese Proverb
• Any cloth may cover our sores, but the finest silk will not cover our sins.~ Henry Smith
• A talk is like a woman’s dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.~ Author Unknown
• Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak.~ Spanish Proverb
• A woman is like a blanket: If you cover yourself with it, it bothers you; if you throw it aside you will feel the cold.~ Ghanaian Proverb
• Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.~ Henry Ward Beecher
• Cover up the good you do — do like the Nile and conceal your sources.~ Egyptian Proverb
• Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.~ H. Stanley Judd
• Don’t judge a book by its cover.~ English Proverb
• Don’t want to cover old ground ~ Traditional Proverb
• Ears have no covers.~ Creole Proverb
• He who covers up his mistakes intends to make some more.~ Chinese Proverb
• He who is covered with other people’s clothes is naked.~ Tunisian Proverb
• His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there’s scarcely a hole in it anywhere.~ Mark Twain
• If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket~ Matthew White
• If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes.~ Iranian Proverb
• Make sure your blanket covers your feet.~ Azerbaijani Proverb
• Marriage is a covered dish.~ Swiss Proverb
• Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.~ Edward R. Murrow
• Physicians’ faults are covered with earth, and rich men’s with money.~ Traditional Proverb
• Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Steal a bell with one’s ears covered. ~ Chinese Proverbs
• The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.~ Denis Diderot
• The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
• The earth will cover the doctor’s mistakes.~ Ukranian Proverb
• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.~ Albert Einstein
• The night forms a cover for sinners.~ Puerto Rican Proverb
• There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.~ J. J. Procter
• There is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.~ Bible quotes
• Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You cannot cover up the sun with a sieve.~ Brazilian Proverb

• As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.~ Charles Stanley
• Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.~ Alfred Hitchcock
• Don’t tell me the sky is the limit, there are footprints on the moon!
• Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.~ Traditional Proverb
• He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.~ Joan L. Brannon
• I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.~ Groucho Marx
• If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints.~ Chinese Proverb
• It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don’t wrap fish in our work.~ Hugh Newell Jacobsen
• Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.~ Chief Seattle
• We all leave footprints in the sand, the question is, will we be a big heal, or a great soul.~ Author Unknown
• You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time if you are sitting on you butt, and who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time!~ Bob Moawad
• You never conquer a mountain.You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.~ Arlene Blum
• We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.~Arthur Eddington

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.~ Madame C.J. Walker
Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?~ David Halberstam
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.~ Vincent Van Gogh
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.~ Robert Orben
If someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first.~ Hebrew Proverb
If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.~ Lou Holtz
If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful.~ Donald M. Kendall
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.~ David Viscott
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.~ Chinese Proverb
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel, and by nightfall, it’s a paragraph in my column.~ Don Marquis
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.~ Tallulah Bankhead
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.~ Vince Lombardi
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.~ Harry Hershfield
Many are called but few get up.~ Oliver Herford
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.~ Cary Grant
Never face facts; if you do you’ll never get up in the morning.~ Marlo Thomas
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.~ George Bernard Shaw
Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.~ Italian Proverb
Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If you can’t find them, then make them.~ George Bernard Shaw
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You’ve got to get up and work at making your dreams come true.~ Poh Yu Khing
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.~ James Russell Lowell
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.~ Robert Frost
The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you’re born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.~ Author Unknown
The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, “How is the president?”~ Will Rogers
There’s nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren’t going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.~ Woody Hayes
Those who sleep with dogs get up with fleas.~ American Proverb
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle.~ Judith Guest
We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.~ Wilbur Wright
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.~ Les Brown
When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn’t that the best position from which to pray?~ Ethel Barrymore
When you fall, don’t get up empty handed.~ Author Unknown
When you go to bed with a clear head, you will not get up with a headache.~ Greek Proverb
Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.~ Edmund Rouse
You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart.~ Carole King
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.~ Geroge Lorimer
You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that’s it — there’s no turning back.~ Jon English
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.~ Billy Wilder

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.~ Fred A. Allen
Any time you got nothing to do–and lots of time to do it–come on up.~ Mae West
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn’t be done.~ Traditional Proverb
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. ~ George Carlin
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. ~ Sydney Smith
It is the man who has done nothing that says nothing can be done.~ Author Unknown
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.~ Gertrude Stein
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. ~ Lord Acton
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. ~ Edmund Burke
Nothing can be done except little by little.~ Charles Baudelaire
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.~ Publilius Syrus
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.~ Helen Keller
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau
Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested. ~Helen MacInness
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.~ James Matthew Barrie
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.~ Sam Ewing
Pile up too many tomorrows and you’ll find that you’ve collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. ~ The Music Man
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.~ Lloyd Jones
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.~ Mary Wilson Little
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~ Publius Terentius Afer
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.~ Elbert Hubbard
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. ~Dr. Seuss
We can do nothing without prayer. ~ E.M. Bounds
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~ Pablo Picasso
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.~ Author Unknown
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.~ Samuel Butler

• All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.~ Author Unknown
• All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.~ Author Unknown
• A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.~ Robert Redford
• A lot of what acting is paying attention.~ Nancy Reagan
• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew Carnegie
• Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.~ Andy Warhol
• Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.~ William John Bennett
• I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle
• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.~ Susan Sontag
• If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.~ Samuel Butler
• If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.~ Tom Peters
• I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
• Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.~ Susan M. Dodd
• No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.~ John Holt
• Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman
• Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.~ Antisthenes
• Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them…as you make the effort.~ Og Mandino
• Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been created in honor of a critic.~ Jean Sibelius
• People don’t pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.~ Florence Griffith-Joyner
• People will teach you how to sell them if you’ll pay attention to the messages they send you.~ Author Unknown
• Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.~ Deepak Chopra
• Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
• The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.~ Philip Crosby
• The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.~ Author Unnown
• The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan
• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.~ Thomas J. Peters
• To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself… ~ W. H. Auden
• You can’t pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it’s… very important to ignore the negative.~ Jerry Rubin
• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.~ Paulo Coelho
• You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

• A clever doctor never treats himself.~ Chinese Proverb
• A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.~ Chinese Proverb
• A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.~ Israel Zangwill
• Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.~ Russian Proverb
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.~ Thomas Carlyle
• Cleverness is not wisdom.~ Euripides
• Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
• Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
• Don’t be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail.~ Russian Proverb
• Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.~ George Bernard Shaw
• God is clever, but not dishonest.~ Albert Einstein
• I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.~ John Peel
• It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.~ French Proverb
• It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too.~ Euripides
• No man is clever enough to know all the evil that he does.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.~ Cesare Pavese
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.~ William J. Durant
• The advice of a clever woman can ruin a strong town.~ Chinese Proverb
• The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.~ American Proverb
• There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!~ Rudyard Kipling
• To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Too clever is stupid.~ German Proverb
• What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.~ Terence
• When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.~ Yiddish Proverb
• Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.~ Malagasy Proverb
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.~ Naguib Mahfouz
• You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are.~ Author Unknown

• Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.~ Phyllis Diller
• Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.~ Cyril Connolly
• Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don’t know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it.~ Christine Huppert
• Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.~ Wilson Mizner
• Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness.~  Donna A. Favors
• Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie!” till you can find a rock.~ Wynn Catlin
• Even the devil’s grandmother was a nice girl when she was young.~ German Proverb
• He may be a very nice man. But I haven’t got the time to figure that out. ~ James Baldwin
• It’s nice being young, but it’s nothing I could maintain over a long period of time.~ Cindy Smallwood
• If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.~ Haim Ginott
• It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.~ John Cassis
• I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.~ Shirley MacLaine
• Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.~ Allan Beck
• Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.~ W.N. Rieger
• Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another’s ears.~ Vietnamese Proverb
• Not all nice things are dear, but those that are dear are nice.~ Yiddish Proverb
• The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.~  George Harrison
• The ugliest life is better than the nicest death.~ Yiddish Proverb
• Too nice can cost a lot of money.~ Yiddish Proverb
• When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?~ Dame Edith Evans
• When you’re nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.~ Jack Canfield
• With nice appearance people want to be deceived.~ German Proverb
• You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.  ~ Garrison Keillor

• I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

• The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

• The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
  In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

• I used to dream
  I used to glance beyond the stars
  Now I don’t know where we are
  although I know we’ve drifted far
  What about yesterday
  What about the seas
  The heavens are falling down
  I can’t even breathe
  What about the bleeding Earth
  Can’t we feel its wounds
  What about nature’s worth?
  It’s our planet’s womb

• I wake up from dreams and go “Wow, put this down on paper.” The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . .

• Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater.

• If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

• And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

• Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do.

• I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

• I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.~ George D. Prentice
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.~ Napoleon Hill
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.~ George Sand
Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.~ S. M. Frazier
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right. ~ Chick Corea
Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.~ Max Fuller
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.~ Mark Twain
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.~ Julius Charles Hare
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.~Ann Landers
The pathway to success is in serving humanity. By no other means is it possible, and this truth is so plain and patent that even very simple folk recognize it.~ Elbert Hubbard
The pathway to success is in serving humanity. By no other means is it possible, and this truth is so plain and patent that even very simple folk recognize it. ~ Elbert Hubbard
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.~ Oscar Wilde
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.~ Francis H. Bradley
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.~Niels Bohr
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.~ Charles Dickens
The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick.~ Bernie S. Siegel
You can’t truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.~Author Unknown

• Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.~ Albert Camus
• A fish wouldn’t get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.~ Korean Proverb
• A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he’s right.~Yiddish Proverb
• Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.~ Ernest Hemingway
• Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.~ William M. Thackeray
• Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.~ Alexis De Tocqueville
• He who keeps his mouth shut, dies without confession.~ Walloon Proverb
• If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.~ Albert Einstein
• If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.~ Austin O’Malley
• If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.~ Emile Zola
• It’s better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.~ Rami Belson
• I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.~ Lauren Bacall
• I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up!~ Tom Lehrer
• Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.~ Traditional Proverb
• My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate… at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won’t give up, shut up, let up, or slow up.~ Robert Moorehead
• The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.~ Mark Twain
• To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.~ Ogden Nash
• When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn’t. It was because I didn’t know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.~ Dean Martin
• When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.~ Author Unknown
• You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.~ Jane Fonda
• You will have many opportunities in life to keep your mouth shut: You should take advantage of every one of them.~ Thomas A. Edison