Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Josef Albers

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Jose Saramago

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.

Jose Marti

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Jose Marti

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jordin Sparks

There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet and exercise and stick to it - and be able to do it at your own pace.

Jorge Luis Borges

I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

Jorge Luis Borges

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the substance of which we are made

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Jorge Luis Borges

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

Jorge Luis Borges

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Jorge Luis Borges

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jonny Wilkinson

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

Jonathan Winters

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Joni Eareckson Tada

The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

Joni Mitchell

Let light hearts remake us.

Joni Mitchell

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

Joni Mitchell

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

Jonathan Schell

Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person to act and every moment is the right moment to begin.

Jonathan Swift

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

Books, the children of the brain.