inspirational quotes on change

Aphorist: someone who formulates aphorisms.



Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. ~Charles Francis Adams



Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~Philip Henry



When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. ~Erma Bombeck



People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby



Dreams digest the meals that are our days. ~Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment



Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe



Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. ~Goethe



Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau



An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr



From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ~Edvard Munch



Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings



Obesity is really widespread. ~Joseph O. Kern II



My inner advisor is dying to heal me. ~Astrid Alauda



"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in "We, the people." ~Barbara Jordan



Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. ~H.L. Mencken



Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~Elizabeth Bowen



Fear is the highest fence. ~Dudley Nichols



Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ~Immanuel Kant