Jenny Lynn's

Favorite Quotes  

This page is dedicated to all the wise men and women who have said things worth repeting and worth remembering.  For inspiration and thoughts for the day, I present some of my favorite quotes.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm.

Audrey Hepburn

As you get older, you must remember that you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself, the second one is to help others."

Audrey Hepburn

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ourselves"

Montaigne

"The real art of conversation is not to say the right thing in the right place but...to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment"

Dorothy Nevill

"We turn, not older with years, but newer every day"

Emily Dickinson

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation"

Henry Ward Beecher

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"

Philo

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits"

Mark Twain

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face"

Victor Hugo

"The Earth has music for those who listen"

William Shakespeare

"I am a great believer of luck.  The harder I work, the more I have of it"

Thomas Jefferson

"Let us have faith that right makes might"

Abraham Lincoln

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set"

Francis Bacon

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed"

Goethe

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better"

William shakespeare

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it"

William James

"Great works are performed, not by strenght, but by perserverance"

Samuel Johnson

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is"

Francis Bacon

"It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us"

Alexander Pope

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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