rose day quotes

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero



Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie



Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. ~Frank Gifford



If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist�s office would be full of luminous ideas. ~Mason Cooley



Gratitude is the best attitude. ~Author Unknown



When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. ~Jean Giraudoux



I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose. ~Gerald Ford



Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. ~Robb Sagendorph



An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. ~Helen Rowland



He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961



To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha



Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~Mark Twain



For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ~Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letter



We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~Mark Twain



The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown



While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor



No man is above the law and no man below it. ~Theodore Roosevelt



France is France and a grand place for Frenchman. ~Harry Truman, letter to Bess Wallace, 5 May 1918



The naive follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts. ~Author Unknown



Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. ~Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals