quotes on positive attitude

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ~Alistair Cooke



Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956



I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling



I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. ~Finley Peter Dunne



Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. ~Justinian I, Law Code, A.D. 535



What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine



Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. ~C. Jeff Miller



People's fates are simplified by their names. ~Elias Canetti



Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge. ~Don Kardong



We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Civilization begins with soap. ~Galveston Times, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. ~Charles Evans Hughes



Don't go through life without goals. ~Hockey Saying



Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. ~Author Unknown



The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. ~Prince de Ligne



A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~Edwin Lewis



We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum



Windows is just DOS in drag. ~Author Unknown



Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra