Pain
- Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
-- Charles Lamb
- Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
-- Laurence Sterne
- Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
-- Anonymous
- Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain
And perish in our own.
-- Francis Thompson
- Never a lip is curved with pain
That can't be kissed into smiles again.
-- Bret Harte
- Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
-- Martin F. Tupper
- Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
-- William Cullen Bryant
- The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
-- Publilius Syrus
Parents
- The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow
- How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
-- Samuel Griswold Goodrich
- Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
-- Ogden Nash
- We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
-- Francis Bacon
- There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries
- The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
-- Theodore M. Hesburgh
Party
- All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
-- Pierre Joseph Proudhon
- I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.
-- Will Rogers
- The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.
-- Thomas B. Reed
- Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
-- Dwight W. Morrow
- There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
-- Fiorello La Guardia
- We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.
-- Ronald Reagan
- Party is the madness of many, for the gains of a few.
-- Alexander Pope
- Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Party honesty is party expediency.
-- Grover Cleveland
- He serves his party best who serves the country best.
-- Rutherford B. Hayes
- I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
Passion
- Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
- Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
-- William Penn
- Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
-- Honoré de Balzac
- He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
-- Cicero
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
-- Jonathan Swift
- Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
-- Thomas Fuller
Past
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana
- Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof."
-- Mike Huybensz
- The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
-- Finley Peter Dunne
- The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
-- Henri Bergson
- The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
- Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
-- Caleb Bingham
- Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
-- William Penn
- Study the past if you would divine the future.
-- Confucius
- I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
-- Carl Sandburg
Patience
- Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
-- Chinese Proverb
- Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- They also serve who only stand and wait.
-- John Milton
- If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
-- Marquise de Sévigné
- Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Our patience will achieve more than our force.
-- Edmund Burke
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
-- Thomas A. Edison
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
-- John Dryden
- Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
-- Jean de La Fontaine
- He that can have patience can have what he will.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Patriotism
- Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana
- I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale
- Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
-- Walter Scott
- Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
-- Calvin Coolidge
- This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!
-- Albert Einstein
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson
- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
-- Felix Adler
- A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
-- George William Curtis
- Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for his country.
-- George S. Patton Jr.
Peace
- If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
-- Kin Hubbard
- Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
-- Johann von Schiller
- If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
- It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.
-- Andre Gide
- Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
-- Peacemaker, founder of the Iriquois Confederacy, ca. 1000 AD
- Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
-- Baruch Spinoza
- An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
-- T.S. Eliot
- You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
-- Charles F. Kettering
- Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, December 11, 1964
Perception
- The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
-- Agnes Repplier
- Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
-- Fulke Greville
- Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
-- Confucius
- Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
-- Hans Margolius
- The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
-- Charles H. Perkhurst
Perfection
- Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
-- Lord Chesterfield
- Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
-- Michelangelo
- Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
-- Voltaire
- The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
-- Delacroix
- It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
-- Samuel Johnson
- No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
-- John Ruskin
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
-- Saint Augustine
- All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
-- Benedict Spinoza
- Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
-- Epictetus
- If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
-- Josh Billings
- Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.
-- Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali`
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