“A sure friend is known in unsure times.”
Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in De Amicitia, Chapter XVII
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“The idle mind knows not what it wants.”
Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.
“Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.”
Louise L. Hay book You Can Heal Your Life
Source: You Can Heal Your Life
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
Henny Youngman (1906–1998) American comedian
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
Louise L. Hay book You Can Heal Your Life
Variant: You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Source: You Can Heal Your Life
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”
Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) American historian
“You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.”
Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Victor Hugo book Things Seen
Often attributed to Churchill, this thought was originally expressed by the French author Victor Hugo in Villemain (1845), as follows: You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
Villemain is a brief segment taken from Hugo’s Choses Vues (Things Seen), a running journal Hugo kept of events he witnessed. The original French versions of these journals were published after Hugo's death.
Misattributed
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
As quoted in Mayor (1984) by Ed Koch
Attributed
“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard".
A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days he will have an easy way to do it".
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/
“Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
True origin unknown. Finest Hour described it as "not verifiable in any of the 50 million published words by and about him" ( Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston Churchill, Number 145, Winter 2009–10, p. 9 https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/vol.01%20no.145.pdf). A similar quotation: "If you're going through hell, don't stop!" is "plausibly attributed" to Oregon self-help author and counselor Douglas Bloch (1990), according to Quote Investigator. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: If you're going through hell, keep going <br class="br">Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going/
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
As quoted in "The Science of Second-Guessing", The New York Times (12 December 2004)