Category: Quotations

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.Walter Anderson, American painter

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.Paula Poundstone

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness.  We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.Samuel McChord Crothers

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.Benjamin Franklin

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.Cecil Baxter

When folks have allotted themselves a task and work together in unison, they escape unhappiness.Emile Zola

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.Tom Stoppard