Archive for July, 2009

• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• An old friend is like a saddled horse.~ Afghan Proverb
• An old friend met in a far country is like rain after drought.~ Chinese Proverb
• An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.~ Samuel Johnson
• Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.~ Agatha Christie
• I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you’ll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.~ Oliver Goldsmith
• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It takes a long time to grow an old friend.~ John Leonard
• Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.~ Frank Gelett Burgess
• Old friends are always new.~ Italian Proverb
• Old friends are the great blessings of one’s later years. ~ Horace Walpole
• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day.~ Dalai Lama
• Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.~ Polish Proverb
• Old wine and friends improve with age.~ Italian Proverb
• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.~ Francis Bacon
• One’s oldest friend is the best.~ Titus Maccius Plautus
• One old friend is better than two new ones.~ Yiddish Proverb
• The most faithful mirror is an old friend. ~ Spanish Proverb
• There are no old friendships in business.~ Ukranian Proverb
• There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.~ Elmer G. Letterman
• To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.~ Chinese Proverb
• To keep a new friend, never break with the old.~ Russian Proverb
• We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.~ Chinese Proverb
• Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.~ Author Unknown
• Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.~ Sarah Orne Jewett

• Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.~ Author Unknown
• Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.~ Napoleon Hill
• Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.~ Matt Biondi
• Hard times ain’t quit and we ain’t quit.~ Meridel Le Sueur
• He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.~ Samuel Johnson
• If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.~ Shelley Long
• If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.~ Thomas J. Watson
• I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.~ Arnold Palmer
• I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.~ Allen H. Neuharth
• It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.~ Robert Strauss
• It’s always too soon to quit.~ David T. Scoates
• It’s when things get rough and you don’t quit that success comes.~ Author Unknown
• Keep going, for success lies just around the corner for those who refuse to quit.~ Author Unknown
• No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.~ Richard Petty
• Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.~ Vince Lombardi
• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.~ George E. Allen
• Quit not certainty for hope.~ Traditional Proverb
• Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.~ David Zucker
• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.~ Jack Nicklaus
• Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.~ William Feather
• Success… seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.~ Conrad Hilton
• Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.~ Dorothy Uhnak
• The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.~ David Lee Roth
• There’s only one way you can fail, and that’s to quit.~ Brian Hays
• Winners never quit, and quitters never win.~ Vince Lombardi
• You’re never a loser until you quit trying.~ Mike Ditka

• A man’s wealth may be superior to him.~ Cameroonian Proverb
• Children are a poor man’s wealth.~ Danish Proverb
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.~ English Proverb
• Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.~ French Proverb
• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.~ Edmund Burke
• If you have given away much of your wealth, then you have given a little of your heart.~ Arabian Proverb
• If you share a man’s wealth, try to lessen his misfortune.~ Chinese Proverb
• It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.~ Charles Caleb Colton
• Poverty without debt is real wealth.~ African Proverb
• Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.~ Egyptian Proverb
• Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.~ English Proverb
• The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.~ Humphrey Bogart
• The poor can only guess at what wealth is; the rich don’t know what poverty means.~ Chinese Proverb
• The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.~ Andrew Carnegie
• The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.~ Thomas Carlyle
• Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.~ Charles Caleb Colton
• Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.~ Afghan Proverb
• Wealth unused might as well not exist.~ Aesop
• When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.~ Confucius
• Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.~ African Proverb

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.~ Wilson Mizner
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.~ Kenneth Tynan
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.~ Gore Vidal
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.~ Woody Allen
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have — by disrupting that order — a way of surprising.~ Vaclav Havel
Drama if I sing, drama if I don’t sing. What do you do?~ Monserrat Caballé
Drama is based on the Mistake.~ W. H. Auden
Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.~ Alfred Hitchcock
Drama is very important in life:You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.~ Julia Child
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.~ Igor Stravinsky
Good drama must be drastic.~ Friedrich Schlegel
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.~ Frank Capra
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It’s hard enough to write a good drama, it’s much harder to write a good comedy, and it’s hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.~ Jack Lemmon
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.~ Olivier Messiaen
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.~ Minna Antrim
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.~ Mark Twain
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.~ Ken Keyes Jr.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.~ Lewis Mumford
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.~ David Mamet
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.~ Winston Churchill

• Charity of thought, word, or deed always leads to the most lasting honors man can attain.~ Author Unknown

• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.~ Maria Montessori

• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.~ Marcus T. Cicero

• Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.~ Samuel Johnson

• Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.~ William Wycherley

• Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.~ Napoleon Bonaparte

• He lives who dies to win a lasting name.~ Henry Drummond

• I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.~ J. Paul Getty

• I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.~Shirin Ebadi

• It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.~ Marcel Proust

• Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

• Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.~ Hosea Ballou

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

• Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.~ Ludwig Borne

• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.~ Goethe

• Only when the coffin is closed will we see how long lasting is the name.~ Japanese Proverb

• She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.~ George Eliot

• The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

• To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.~ William Hazlitt

• Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.~ Tom Hannah

• There is no real lasting joy in self-seeking.~Victor Collins

• There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.~ Yoga Vasishtha

• The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.~ Harry S. Truman

• Where there is lasting love, there is a family.~ Shere Hite

• Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.~ Robert Herrick