Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.[Paul Dirac] Quote:The covers of this book are too far apart.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.[Henry Van Dyke] Quote:Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.[Mark Twain] Quote:I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:Haven't you learned anything from that guy that gives those sermons in church? Captain What's-his-name. We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk! Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze![Homer Simpson] Quote:When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.[Victor Hugo] Quote:You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. 'Guess' is too short a word for a professor.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...[C.S. Lewis] Quote:No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.[Roger Ebert] Quote:And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.[Christopher Morley] Quote:A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.[Robert Frost] Quote:Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.[Dave Barry] Quote:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[Dave Barry] Quote:I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.[Edmund Burke] Quote:The gods too are fond of a joke.[Aristotle] Quote:Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.[Bill Maher] Quote:The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.[Stephen King] Quote:What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.[Thomas Paine] Quote:A brain has to digest its food, too.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.[Yogi Berra] Quote:It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.[Yogi Berra] Quote:A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.[Woody Allen] Quote:Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.[Henry Mencken] Quote:When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.[Abraham Maslow] Quote:The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right.[Mark Twain] Quote:Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.[Hermann Goering] Quote:Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns -- he should be drawn and quoted.[Fred Allen] Quote:The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.[Niels Bohr] Quote:It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.[Patrick Henry] Quote:Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.[Robert Frost] Quote:Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich.[Robin Williams] Quote:The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu] Quote:A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.[Mark Twain] Quote:Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.[Jack Handey] Quote:Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.[Mel Gibson] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late.[Max Kaufman] Quote:A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.[Ring Lardner] Quote:I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.[Henry Ford] Quote:The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:One should never know too precisely whom one has married.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. [Charles De Gaulle] Quote:I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. [Charles De Gaulle] Quote:Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. [Edmund Burke] Quote:War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. [Georges Clemenceau] Quote:The covers of this book are too far apart. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. [Jawaharlal Nehru] Quote:Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. [Jane Austen] Quote:Life is too important to take seriously. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. [Mark Twain] Quote:Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. [Chester Bowles] Quote:Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. [Chester Bowles] Quote:Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. [Thomas Szasz] Quote:Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. [Bette Davis] Quote:It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. [Charles Baudelaire] Quote:One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was? My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. [Barbara Hall] Quote:LEONARD: I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious.<br>CHRIS: I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on it--the gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. [David Assael] Quote:If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. [Henry S. Haskins] Quote:Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. [Helen Keller] Quote:I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. [Gore Vidal] Quote:Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The gods too are fond of a joke. [Aristotle] Quote:It is never too late to give up our prejudices. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. [Ogden Nash] Quote:That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. [Doris Lessing] Quote:When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. [Anais Nin] Quote:A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. [Robert Frost] Quote:The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. [Jean Cocteau] Quote:When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. [Bill Clinton] Quote:If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. [Doug Larson] Quote:I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know. [Garry Shandling] Quote:Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. [John Wayne] Quote:Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. [Socrates] Quote:It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. [Penn Jillette] Definitions of: tooDefinition: Over; more than enough; -- noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much.Definition: Likewise; also; in addition. |
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