Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Holmes

God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.

Ernest Holmes

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

Ernest Holmes

Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.

Erma Bombeck

He who laughs.....lasts.

Erma Bombeck

I used everything you gave me.

Erma Bombeck

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Erma Bombeck

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

Erma Bombeck

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Erma Bombeck

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Erma Bombeck

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Erma Bombeck

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Erma Bombeck

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Erma Bombeck

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Erma Bombeck

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Florence Scovel Shinn

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Nightingale

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Florence Nightingale

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

Flann O'Brien

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Fiona Apple

How can you go wrong with two people in love? Goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Love is love, and there will never be too much.

Fiona Apple

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Fiona Apple

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Herbert Hoover

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Henry Moore

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Henry Louis Gates

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Henry Miller

I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

Henry Miller

All growth is a leap in the dark.

Henry Miller

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Henry Miller

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

We live at the edge of the miraculous.