Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.
—Judith Jamison (American Dancer)
These be three silent things: The Falling snow… the hour before the dawn… the mouth of one just dead.
—Adelaide Crapsey (American Poet)
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
—Sam Keen (American Author)
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
—Phillips Brooks (American Episcopal Clergyman)
To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
—Marilyn French (American Feminist Author)
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
—Garry Trudeau (American Cartoonist)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
—Upton Sinclair (American Novelist, Social Reformer)
It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.
—Jules Feiffer (American Cartoonist)
Do for yourself or do without.
—Gaylord Perry (American Baseball Player)
Freedom is not a word, it is a way of living.
—Gioconda Belli (Nicaraguan Poet)
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. – Billings, Josh.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (American Humorist)
By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.
—Wayne Dyer (American Self-help Author)
Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.
—Marie Dressler (Canadian-American Actress)
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you’re off it.
—Jackie Gleason (American Actor)
Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
—John Wayne (American Actor)