Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder (American Author of Children’s Novels)
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
—Charles Dickens (English Novelist)
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)
As high as we have mounted in delight, in our dejection do we sing as low.
—William Wordsworth (English Poet)
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne (English Poet)
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
—Remy de Gourmont (French Poet, Writer)
We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
—John O’Donohue (Irish Philosopher, Priest)
More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Playwright)
Learn young about hard work and manners – and you’ll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (American Novelist)
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
—Owen Feltham (English Essayist)
Everyone needs hope, often desperately. Look for honest ways to give it.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach)
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
—Joseph Joubert (French Essayist)
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
—Plutarch (Greek Biographer)