An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Your thoughts are making you.
If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: