honesty quotes or sayings & quotations

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.
~honesty quotes by Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
~famous quotes about Honesty by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?
~honesty sayings by Patrick Sky

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
~honesty quotes or sayings by Jerome K. Jerome

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~inspirational sayings about Honesty quotes by Mark Twain

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~honesty quotes by No�l Coward, Blithe Spirit

Life Quotes and Sayings

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Author: Oscar Wilde

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We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Author: Samuel Butler

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.
Author: Srully D. Blotnick

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Author: Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Author: Leonard Bernstein

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom–as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
Author: Warren G. Bennis

Christmas time quotes

Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive.  ~Lorinda Ruth Lowen

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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.  ~May Sarton

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven’s making.  ~Leigh Hunt

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
~Richard Crashaw

I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill.  But it is clumsier every year.  ~E.M. Forster

Christmas Day Sayings

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.  ~Harlan Miller

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Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall.  We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.  ~Dave Barry

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.  ~Jessica Archmint

Sing hey!  Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let’s all be jolly!
~Author Unknown

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.  ~E.B. White, “The Distant Music of the Hounds,” The Second Tree from the Corner, 1954

Famous Christmas Quotes

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day.  We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year.  As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.  And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself:  “Why, this is Christmas Day!”  ~David Grayson

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
~Eva Logue

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.  ~Janice Maeditere

Wise Life Quotes

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.  ~Eng’s Principle

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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.  ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them.  And you don’t have to keep them, either.  They keep you.  ~Frank Crane

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.  It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.  ~William James, The Principles of Psychology

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Quotations about Money

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.  ~Robert Graves

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When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.  ~John Wesley

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.  ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.  ~Pam Shaw

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.  ~Author Unknown

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.  ~Cree Indian Proverb

Random Life Proverbs

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

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To err is human to forgive, infrequent.
~Author : Franklin P Adams Wise Quotes

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
~Author : George Gordon Byron Motivational Sayings

I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
~Author : Virginia Woolf Famous Quotes

Be and not seem.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Sayings

Without music life would be a mistake.
~Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Nice Quotes

Wise Life Quotes

People are always asking about the good old days.  I say, why don’t you say the good now days?  ~Robert M. Young

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Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.  ~Author Unknown

“Old times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well.  What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.  ~George E. Woodberry

Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.  ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.  ~Alexander Graham Bell

Famous life quotations

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
~ by José Ortega y Gasset

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If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
~ by Confucius

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.
~ by Author Unknown

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.
~ by Vita Sackville-West

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
~ by George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin