I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man
I read through the passage which tells us
how the Lord at last rose in His might
and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple
the brood of vipers and of adders.
- Adolf Hitler
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Like a Rose, I Thrive -
Blessed With Both My Thorns and My Blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Oh my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
Oh my luve is like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
- Robert Burns
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven;
a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
- Omar Khayyam
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
Life is magnificent - just as it comes.
Life has no need for fancy clothes, or lipstick.
Life is no pig.
Our life is the greatest gift of all creation.
When we are unhappy with life -
when we are shocked by the stock market,
or dismayed by our choice of political candidates,
let us not lash out in anger.
But also, let us not try to pretty up life
with some lipstick and some party clothes.
See life clearly - no rose colored glasses -
and then CHOOSE to love life.
CHOOSE to be happy, be joyful, be grateful,
be forgiving of everyone and of every act
we believe has hurt us.
Life just "IS."
We get to CHOOSE our relationship with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
Who can suffer while roses bloom
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
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
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
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