cute quotes and sayings about love and life

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb



The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. ~William Lyon MacKenzie



Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969



It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. ~Yogi Berra



Our birth is nothing but our death begun. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts



The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ~Benjamin Franklin



Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive. ~Author Unknown



If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent." ~Waite Hoyt



I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. ~A.C. Van Cherub



Burn rubber, not your soul, baby. ~Craig Fernandez and Reggie Bythewood, Biker Boyz



I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ~Frederick Douglass, escaped slave



Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. ~J.K. Rowling, "Magic is Might," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007



Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ~Oscar Wilde



The shadows: some hide, others reveal. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson