499,696 QUOTES TO INSPIRE YOUR DAY
Time and tide wait for no man.
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
My time has not yet come.
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
There's a time for all things.
The time is out of joint.
O call back yesterday bid time return.
A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.
Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."
Some hae meat and canna eat And some wad eat that want it But we hae meat and we can eat And sae the Lord be thankit.
Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate.
A cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies.
Dowling Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Here's to your good health and your family's good health and may you all live long and prosper.
A glass is good and a lass is good And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.
May you live all the days of your life.
Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.
Little tube of mighty pow'r Charmer of an idle hour Object of my warm desire.
A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.
For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.
What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own: He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I have liv'd today.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Tomorrow life is too late: live today.
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Toleration is the best religion.
It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!
Live and let live.
There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Tomorrow! - Why tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.
Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.
Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.
When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.
If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.
Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.
(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.
Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
Travel teaches toleration.
I am fevered with the sunset I am fretful with the bay For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
As the Spanish proverb says "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.
The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.
The little Road says Go The little House says Stay And oh it's bonny here at home But I must go away.
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.
Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)
A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.
This is the forest primeval.
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.
The tree is known by his fruit.
Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.
Tis a lesson you should heed Try try try again If at first you don't succeed Try try try again.
There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
For precept must be upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little.
A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation.