“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Lord Darlington, Act III
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Quotes for anniversaries and events
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“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle
book
Metaphysics
Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q=, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in American Opinion, Volume 24 http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q=, Robert Welch, Inc., 1981, p. 23. Possibly a discombobulation http://publicnoises.blogspot.fi/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html of the Nicomachean Ethics Book I, 1094b.24 quote above.
Disputed
Source: Metaphysics
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon
(1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
(1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809–1892) British poet laureate
Socrates
(-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
This is actually a quotation http://books.google.com/books?id=FUIHmRHf8SUC&lpg=PA130&dq=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&f=false from a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Peaceful_Warrior, by Dan Millman.
Misattributed
“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”
Frida Kahlo
(1907–1954) Mexican painter
Variant: Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
(-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
Bob Marley
(1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Variant: Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
“One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
(1997) Pakistani children's education activist
UN speech, June 2013
Context: So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda
(1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Robert Frost
(1874–1963) American poet
Variant: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
Norman Cousins
(1915–1990) American journalist
15 April 1978.
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