Lots of intuitive quotes this week, including ones from Bette Davis, Victor Hugo, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. And a funny quote from Edith Sitwell. Enjoy.
[Mostly] Inspirational Quotes
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
— Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… But I am too busy thinking about myself.
— Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
— Ancient Proverb
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
— Elbert Hubbard
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
— Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables,’ 1862
Joy is prayer – Joy is strength – Joy is love – Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
— Mother Teresa
You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
— Bonnie Prudden
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.
— Will Rogers
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
— Margot Fonteyn
It’s not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
— Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
— Laurence J. Peter
It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
— Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.
— Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho’s weblog, 03-23-06
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
— Seneca
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
— Lyman Beecher
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
— Og Mandino
I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It’s so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.
— April Foiles
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
— Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
— Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Oh for a book and a shady nook…
— John Wilson
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
— Leigh Hunt
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
— Ellen Goodman
Urban Dictionary
Toilet Mummy
When someone is so concerned about toilet seat germs, they cover the seat with half a roll of toilet paper, leaving it to appear like it has been mummified.
"I was going to use that stall to drop a deuce, but somebody left it looking like a toilet mummy."
Recrap
To sum up a discussion composed largely of useless bullshit.
Person 1: "Tell me how the staff meeting went."
Person 2: "Allow me to recrap…"
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