No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.